Registered Ward Nurse
Band 5
Livingstone Community Hospital
Full and part time opportunities

Are you a motivated and caring Registered Nurse based in the Kent area? Are you looking to join an NHS Health and Social Care partner which is striving to make positive changes? Would you like to work for an organisation where more than 9 out of every ten 10 of the people who use services would recommend them?

Feel Valued

As a band 5 nurse you will receive an AFC 20/21 salary and terms and conditions including an NHS pension, plus a 5% high cost area allowance. We’ll provide you with access to a committed Learning and Development team, and we work closely with Universities and Health Education England to further your potential and support your progression. We will offer a combination of in house eLearning, workshops and courses to support your development.

You will become part of the Virgin Tribe. This grants you access to premier offers as discounts on Virgin Products such as holidays.

You’ll access our central online health and lifestyle platform covering healthy recipes, activity challenges, and support information around mental health.All this, and flexible working patterns to help support your work/life balance. Oh, and did we mention the free tea and coffee?

Feel Proud

We're looking for Band 5 Nurses with an RGN qualification and license to practice. We currently have opportunities across our localities in Livingstone within the great county of Kent!

As a band 5 nurse working for Virgin Care, you will work both independently and closely with our multi-disciplinary teams and be responsible for contributing to the holistic assessment, planning delivery and evaluation of patient care. You will also put to use your strong communication and organisation skills, along with a flexible approach, will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.

You’ll care for patients and their families in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work to help us continue to change things for the better. We feel passionate that everyone should feel valued when they come into contact with our organisation, whether that's you, someone we care for or the wider community we operate in.

Feel Inspired – We won Team of the Year at FTD

Big congratulations to the North Kent CCC team for winning the Team of the Year Award, you deserve it! This just shows what a fantastic team this is to work with! #FTDAwards

Feel the Difference

If you’d like to discuss the role further, or see a copy of the full job description, please contact Tom Noonan on Tom.Noonan@virgincare.co.uk

You’re welcome to come in for an informal visit, meet our friendly team and ask any queries you may have before you apply.

We partner with the NHS to make a real difference to people in Kent and we’re building a working environment where colleagues too can really feel the difference. It’s the kind of place where nothing’s too much trouble. Where you’ll feel empowered, listened to, valued and where we’ll support you to bring your best self to work every single day and to deliver high quality care. And that’s just the beginning. Since 2006, we’ve delivered services to millions of people by developing our own unique approach where our patients are at the centre of everything we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome a broad diversity of talent to apply. We reserve the right to cease any advertising prior to the published closing date for a role that receives a high number of applications. Virgin Care Limited, its subsidiary companies and the Virgin Care LLPs are part of the Virgin Group and provide NHS and social care services. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.

Post: Patient Flow Manager, Band 7

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Patient Flow Manager within the Greenwich Directorate of services (Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust) to join the high performance Oxleas bed flow team. The primary work base is at Oxleas House, Queen Elizabeth Hospital with some functions carried out at other Oxleas sites.

We are seeking to appoint someone who can demonstrate contextual leadership and operational skills relevant to patient flow.

Can you work to increase efficiency and support movement to an admission bed once a 'Decision to Admit' has been made? Do you have a keen interest to support our Acute Hospital Trusts colleagues to minimise breaches at the ED and medical wards?If you answered yes to these questions, you may be the right person for this job.

You will be responsible for managing all referrals for inpatient admissions (Adult Acute Inpatient Services, PICU and Older Adults Inpatient Services) to ensure effective patient flow. You will also propose and implement initiatives aimed at reducing length of inpatient stay and reducing 'Delayed Transfers of Care' through coordinated discharge planning. Ability to work under considerable pressure at times is essential.

You will have the opportunity to work across organisational boundaries and with a variety of stakeholders, therefore the ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic with a keen sense of accountability.

You will have the support of the Patient Flow Clinical Manager and the Greenwich Service Manager for Mental Health through clinical and managerial supervision to develop.

If you can sign up to the Oxleas Trust Values and ready to put all clients at the centre of what you do, then we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities and objectives for this post are clearly set out in the attached Job description, however, if you would like to discuss the requirements for the post further, please contact Peter Ley, Greenwich MH service manager via email peter.ley@nhs.net

Oxleas NHS Trust operates a Probationary Period, further details are available on request.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Peter Ley, Greenwich MH service manager via email peter.ley@nhs.net