Staff Nurse - Harrowby Ward - Band 5

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a staff nurse to join the Harrowby Ward team.

Harrowby Ward is a general medical ward mainly caring for the elderly patient covering a range of illnesses and their management. We aim to provide a patient centred approach putting patients at the heart of their care with the aim of improving patient safety and satisfaction.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will work within a multidisciplinary team providing all care for our patients and planning safe discharges so communication skills are a necessity.

Due to the nature of the post-extended skills such as IV additives, IV cannulation, Phlebotomy, ECG's are desirable.

About us

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).