“Defined by our people”
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country, employing over 20,000 staff and treating over 2.8 million people per year. We have more than 2,700 beds across all our sites with the main hospital services being based at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital, Good Hope Hospital and other services based at Birmingham Chest Clinic and Solihull community health premises.
As the Trust is a multi-site organisation you may be required to work at any of the Trust sites and you may need to change your normal place of work, either temporarily or on a permanent basis, as a result of development or reorganisation of Trust services.
UHB has an international reputation for its quality of care, information technology, clinical education and training and research and provides a wide range of services including highly specialised regional and national services. The Trust is a designated Major Trauma Centre, operates Europe’s largest Critical Care Unit and Organ Transplant Service and, through its hosting of the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, provides a full range of medical services to injured military personnel.
Our core purposes are excellent clinical quality, patient experience, workforce, research and innovation and our vision is “To Build Healthier Lives”.
Please apply early as vacancies may close before the given closing date when sufficient applications are received.
For specific enquiries regarding this vacancy, please see the Contact Details section below in the first instance. For general enquiries, please use Switchboard: 0121 627 2000 and for Non-Medical (inc. Nursing) Ext. 16800, Doctors & Dentists Ext. 18384 or 18395, Bank posts 0121 371 8280.
All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders
This role is based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
At University Hospitals Birmingham we support flexible working and welcome applications from nurses seeking flexible working opportunities and family friendly working hours.
This is an exciting time to join our Health care Team at University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust. The recent acute Trust merger has led to further developments within our specialty becoming an extremely exciting place to work. Our vision is patients should be as happy and healthy as possible, living self-sufficient, independent lives, able to have choice and control over what they do and what happens for them.
We expect our workforce, at all grades and professions to be highly skilled and motivated, delivering individualised care for patients at the time they need it.
We have fantastic opportunities for band 5 Staff Nurses to work within our Renal Medical Team on Ward 303 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site. We provide holistic care to variety of patients with complex kidney conditions.
We are looking for nurses with excellent communication skills and an interest in the health care of patients with chronic kidney disease. We are looking for dynamic and motivated nurses who are able to excel in a busy environment. You will also learn how to administer chemotherapy drugs to patients with complex conditions.
The trust has an excellent in house training facility to assist all staff to reach their career goals. Clinical Educators are on hand to assist with any queries and assistance in building up practice with skills required. This speciality takes a proactive part in helping ensure staff are able to attend training to help them develop the skills they need to ensure they provide the highest standard of care to their patients.
We welcome all applicants who are willing to learn and be part of our fantastic team. All successful applicants will have a structured and supported induction period and will be able to access ongoing training and support from within our clinical training and education team.
If you want to work within a positive and supportive team and have the opportunity to develop professionally then please don’t hesitate to contact us for more information or to arrange an informal visit.
Please contact Ward 303 manager Gemma Saeed on 0121 3713033 or via email Gemma.saeed@uhb.nhs.uk
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