Staff Nurse (Endoscopy) - Fixed Term 12 Months - #144504
The Royal Berkshire
Date: 1 week ago
City: Reading
Contract type: Contractor
Band 5 Staff Nurse (Endoscopy)
We would love you to consider joining our JAG Accredited Unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and we think we have got something special to offer you.
We currently work a 6 day working week (Monday to Saturday 08:00 to 18:30) and have the benefit of doing self-rostering with priority requests.
Endoscopy is a friendly team and we welcome applicants from anyone who is a good team player and has a willingness to learn and develop new skills.
We are a busy, diagnostic and therapeutic unit dealing with out-patients and in-patients and we also support the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
The Royal Berkshire Endoscopy Unit is committed to delivering high quality patient-focused service - we are a well-equipped and modern department which specialises in a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
We are a JAG accredited unit and undertake bowel cancer screening as part of the National Screening Programme.
We are looking for dynamic individuals willing to learn some highly skilled endoscopy techniques and actively assist in providing quality care for patients undergoing endoscopy procedures.
The post holder will provide excellent individualised nursing care to patients attending the endoscopy unit from pre-assessment, support in the procedure rooms, through to discharge.
In return, we offer you a flexible and motivating work environment and you will have full support of the Endoscopy Unit in providing both a clinical and competency based training programme (Jets workforce).
In addition, the endoscopy unit consist of a multidisciplinary team and we encourage all our staff to develop their clinical, managerial and leadership skills in a positive learning environment.
We are a very busy, expanding unit and are looking for some reliable and flexible staff.
The unit is open Monday to Saturday 08:00 to 18:30.
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of hospital services for the population of Reading, Newbury, Wokingham and the towns and villages of west Berkshire.
At our heart we are a local hospital that works with NHS and social care partners to provide excellent healthcare services for over 500,000 people who currently live in our catchment area. We also provide specialist hospital services beyond the county’s borders.
Each year we are responsible for efficiently and effectively spending more than £400m of NHS resources on the services we provide.
As a founder member of the Berkshire West Integrated Care System, we are one of NHS England’s demonstrator sites for integration between primary, community, mental health and acute healthcare services.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our "CARE" values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chiedza Chiweshe Job title: Sister Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01183227458
- This is a fixed-term/secondment opportunity for 12 months.**
We would love you to consider joining our JAG Accredited Unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and we think we have got something special to offer you.
We currently work a 6 day working week (Monday to Saturday 08:00 to 18:30) and have the benefit of doing self-rostering with priority requests.
Endoscopy is a friendly team and we welcome applicants from anyone who is a good team player and has a willingness to learn and develop new skills.
We are a busy, diagnostic and therapeutic unit dealing with out-patients and in-patients and we also support the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
The Royal Berkshire Endoscopy Unit is committed to delivering high quality patient-focused service - we are a well-equipped and modern department which specialises in a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
We are a JAG accredited unit and undertake bowel cancer screening as part of the National Screening Programme.
We are looking for dynamic individuals willing to learn some highly skilled endoscopy techniques and actively assist in providing quality care for patients undergoing endoscopy procedures.
The post holder will provide excellent individualised nursing care to patients attending the endoscopy unit from pre-assessment, support in the procedure rooms, through to discharge.
In return, we offer you a flexible and motivating work environment and you will have full support of the Endoscopy Unit in providing both a clinical and competency based training programme (Jets workforce).
In addition, the endoscopy unit consist of a multidisciplinary team and we encourage all our staff to develop their clinical, managerial and leadership skills in a positive learning environment.
We are a very busy, expanding unit and are looking for some reliable and flexible staff.
The unit is open Monday to Saturday 08:00 to 18:30.
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of hospital services for the population of Reading, Newbury, Wokingham and the towns and villages of west Berkshire.
At our heart we are a local hospital that works with NHS and social care partners to provide excellent healthcare services for over 500,000 people who currently live in our catchment area. We also provide specialist hospital services beyond the county’s borders.
Each year we are responsible for efficiently and effectively spending more than £400m of NHS resources on the services we provide.
As a founder member of the Berkshire West Integrated Care System, we are one of NHS England’s demonstrator sites for integration between primary, community, mental health and acute healthcare services.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our "CARE" values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chiedza Chiweshe Job title: Sister Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01183227458
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