Registered Nurse (Adult)

Claire Swales. Telephone 01924 546416 or 01924 541931

claire.swales1@nhs.net

About The Role

The Yorkshire Regional Burn Centre at Pinderfields Hospital provides specialist care for patients who have sustained thermal injuries or skin loss disorders. As a regional centre of excellence and part of the Northern Burn Care Operational Delivery Network, we receive referrals from across Yorkshire, the Humber and North Lincolnshire, serving a geographical catchment population of approximately 5 million people. As the regional adult burn centre, we provide care for patients with the most severe burn injuries, as well as those with less complex burn and skin loss conditions requiring specialist assessment and treatment.

Our adult burn service includes a 7-bedded inpatient unit, with 2 dedicated intensive care beds for the management of critically ill patients, a busy seven-day ambulatory care unit, and a regional outreach service supporting patients closer to home. Together, these services enable us to deliver specialist burn care throughout every stage of the patient journey, from emergency treatment and critical care through to rehabilitation and long-term follow-up.

Due to internal promotion, we have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and compassionate Band 5 Registered Nurse to join our dedicated team. This role offers the opportunity to work across both the inpatient unit and ambulatory care service, providing high-quality, specialist care to patients with burns and complex skin loss conditions.

Working closely with our experienced multidisciplinary team, you will deliver evidence-based care in accordance with the British Burn Association National Standards for Provision and Outcomes in Adult and Paediatric Burn Care (2023). You will play an important role in supporting patients and their families throughout their treatment, rehabilitation and reintegration, ensuring they receive exceptional, compassionate care in a supportive and friendly environment.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills within a highly specialised service caring for patients with a wide range of burn injuries, including the most critically injured adults in the region. You will be joining a passionate, experienced team committed to delivering outstanding burn care, and full training and support will be provided to help the successful candidate develop the knowledge and confidence required for this rewarding role.

Main duties

• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based nursing care to patients with burn injuries and complex skin loss conditions across inpatient and ambulatory care settings.
• Undertake complex and often lengthy burn dressing changes using specialist techniques, ensuring effective pain management, infection prevention and patient comfort throughout treatment.
• Manage burn wound care throughout the patient's treatment journey, monitoring wound healing, recognising complications and escalating concerns appropriately.
• Run nurse-led clinics within the Ambulatory Care Unit, providing ongoing wound management, education and follow-up care, and contributing to discharge planning.
• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to coordinate and deliver holistic, patient-centred care in accordance with the British Burn Association National Standards (2023)
• Provide compassionate psychological support to patients and their families, recognising the physical and emotional impact of burn injuries and facilitating access to specialist support services where required.
• Safeguard adults and young people by recognising, responding to and escalating safeguarding concerns in line with Trust policies and national guidance.
• Support patients and relatives throughout rehabilitation and reintegration, promoting independence, recovery and self-management.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, clinical audit and implementation of evidence-based practice.
  
  

Qualifications

Essential person specification requirements

• Registered Nurse with the NMC or on an NMC approved BSc/MSc nursing programme due to register with the NMC within 12 months.
  
  

Experience

• Professional, clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree or equivalent
  
  

Knowledge and Awareness

• Up to date knowledge of current nursing issues, research and practice.
  
  

Skills And Awareness

• Ability to plan, assess, implement and evaluate patient care.
• Prioritise tasks.
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships.
• Delegate and co-ordinate person centred patient care effectively.
• Work effectively as part of a Multidisciplinary Team.
• Supervise junior staff and learners in practice.
• An ability to perform clinical skills with dexterity for example: insertion and removal of peripheral cannulation, venepuncture and catheters.
• Administer medications using a range of routes
• IT skills which can be built upon to incorporate the use of hospital administration, information and training systems.
  
  

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to review the full requirements.

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

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Our Benefits

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including:
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Home electronics scheme
• Cycle to work scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support
  
  

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