Permanent Full-time Positions
Kate Cowhig International Healthcare Recruitment is recruiting EU nurses for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust located in Southampton, UK.
The Hospital
UHS is a large teaching hospital located on the south coast of England. Our mission is to provide clinical care, to educate current and future healthcare professionals, and to use research to improve healthcare for the future.
We’re proud to be able to provide services to over 1.9 million people living in Southampton and south Hampshire, as well as specialist services such as neurosciences, cardiac services and children’s intensive care to more than 3.7 million people in central southern England and the Channel Islands. We’re a designated major trauma centre, and one of only two places in the south of England to offer adults and children full onsite major trauma care provision.
The Position
We are seeking experienced EU nurses and ambitious newly qualified nurses to join the nursing team in neurosciences, cardiac services, children’s intensive care, surgery, critical care, acute medical admissions unit, respiratory high dependency unit, cardiovascular, neurosciences, trauma & orthopaedics.
The Location
This vibrant, diverse city on the south coast is steeped in history. Past residents include Jane Austen, and Southampton was also the site of the fateful voyage of the Titanic and the first flight of the famous Spitfire fighter plane. Southampton’s maritime and aviation history is honoured at a range of attractions around the city, but it’s far from stuck in the past. With the University of Southampton’s cutting edge research facilities, the new shopping and entertainment complex at Westquay shopping centre and speedy transport links by bus, train, ferry and plane, Southampton has long established itself as a modern city with a lot to offer. Southampton is conveniently located, with easy transport links to the beaches in Bournemouth, the historic cities of Portsmouth and Winchester, and the scenic New Forest. A visit to London on the train will take you less than an hour and a half, and there’s also easy access to the motorway for commuting and weekend road trips
Salary & Benefits:
- Availability for further education courses and opportunities to develop clinical and leadership skills
- Preceptorship & Mentorship programmes are available.
- A wide range of specialities available
- Band 5 Salary of £23,023 – £29,608 (dependent on experience)
- Relocation allowance within UK of up to £375* (Relocation allowance from outside the UK, within Europe of up to £750)
- Assistance with your UK relocation
- Full-time, permanent positions (37.5 hours per week).
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
- Participates in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individual patient care.
- Ensure that all patients receive the care identified in their care plans.
- Observes on the conditions of patients and maintains patients’ records accurately.
- Ensures that confidentiality is maintained at all times.
- Adheres to regulations regarding the custody and administration of medicines.
- Maintains good communication with patients’ family/friends regarding the patients’ needs and welfare.
- Organised the reception, discharge and aftercare of patients in accordance with hospital policy.
Eligibility Criteria:
- Must have a valid NMC pin number to apply or have passed IELTS/OET and have the ability to register with the NMC.
- Academic IELTS (with a score of 7 in Listening, Reading and Speaking and a score of 6.5 in Writing) or OET Exams (with a Grade B in all four subsets)
- You are committed to continuous professional development.
- You have the passion to deliver care of the highest standard.