Staff Nurse Ward 39 Cardiology

Overview

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 02 February 2026

To work within a team ensuring all patients receive timely and appropriate care, ensuring utilisation of Allied Health Professionals support and guidance to promote a safe and timely discharge.

Main duties

• Providing patient care and ensuring all activities of daily living are maintained whilst ensuring the patient receives safe and appropriate care.
• Linking with all AHPs ensuring the patient receives timely and appropriate.
• Ensuring the patient receives their prescribed medications at the correct time.
• Participating in a research and audit completion.
• Ensuring all knowledge is recorded and up to date via the Trust system.

About us

• Working with all AHPs ensuring patient care is provided safely and timely.
• Participating in all research and audit for the Trust.
• Participating in all Trust iniatives.

Job responsibilities

• To work within a team ensuring all patients receive timely and appropriate care, ensuring utilisation of Allied Health Professionals support and guidance to promote a safe and timely discharge.
• Maintain current knowledge to ensure compliance with NMC requirements.
• Providing patient care and ensuring all activities of daily living are maintained whilst ensuring the patient receives safe and appropriate care.
• Linking with all AHPs ensuring the patient receives timely and appropriate.
• Ensuring the patient receives their prescribed medications at the correct time.
• Participating in a research and audit completion.
• Ensuring all knowledge is recorded and up to date via the Trust system.
• Answerable to Ward Manager and Matron.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (1st or 2nd Level)
• Willingness to undertake teaching and assessing qualification
• Willingness to undertake conversion course to Part 1 of the NMC register
• Diploma/willingness to undertake Diploma
• Teaching & assessing qualification

Experience

• Ability to teach peers within clinical area
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Experience of team and ward management

Skills/Attributes

• Ability to establish priorities
• Good time management
• Basic I.T. skills
• Decision maker
• Communicate at all levels
• Lateral thinker
• Decision maker
• Basic Life Support

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust