Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to develop your career within our General Critical care Units at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Northern General Hospital.
We are looking for highly motivated, patient-focussed, competent critical care nurses to assist the ward managers in managing these acute and dynamic units.
Critical Care accepts elective and emergency Level 2 or 3 patients to NGH D and E floor Critical Care and RHH CCD from a wide variety of specialities including: Vascular; Renal; Burns; Plastic Surgery; Spinal Injuries; Trauma/Orthopaedics; Haematology; Oncology; Gynaecology, Obstetrics, ENT, Urology, Vascular Surgery; General Medicine and General Surgery.
Applications are invited from UK Registered Nurses who have extensive experience in critical care nursing. They must be a fully trained and competent critical care nurse in possession of the critical care course or equivalent and have appropriate post-course specialist competencies and experience. Working towards completion of critical care management workbook is essential. Applicants should have completed the national PEAP programme for practice supervisors or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998 and a relevant management course is desirable.
Candidates must be able to demonstrate management and leadership skills. Clinical expertise and organisational ability are also vital, together with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Main duties of the job
These positions are permanent and include rotation between our three general units, across two hospital sites.
The main duties of the role are to provide high quality, evidence based care to patients within the critical care directorate.
You will be expected to develop and provide specialised programmes of nursing care to a diverse range of patients. To lead a team of qualified nurses, support staff and student team members. To take charge of the ward / department regularly. And to support the Senior Sister / Senior Charge Nurse in ensuring the highest standard and quality of nursing care is delivered.
You will need to be flexible and passionate about delivering care to critically ill patients.
Please note this advertisement is for both full time and part time opportunities.
About us
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Our patients and staff are not numbers they are individuals. Proud to make a Difference is not just our slogan but the way we do things. If you are looking for a role or career that excites you, stretches your potential and gives you job satisfaction, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN Level one
- NMC registered
- To have completed the national practice assessor training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998.
- First degree or evidence of working towards one (demonstrating graduate attributes)
Desirable
- Management and Leadership Course
Experience
Essential
- Extensive relevant Critical Care experience
- Appropriate experience as a fully trained and competent critical care nurse in possession of a Post Basic Qualification and completion of specialist competencies.
- Ability to lead, motivate and develop a professional team
- Completion of relevant Critical Care management competencies
- Completion of relevant critical care management competencies
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Good understanding of the local and national strategic context of research in the NHS
- Ability to communicate effectively including active listening, writing, and verbally, with individuals on a one-to-one basis, with groups and the multidisciplinary team.
- Good understanding of the national strategic context of the NHS
- Excellent performance management skills.
- Highly developed leadership skills with excellent interpersonal skills - ability to form positive relationships at all levels.
- Ability to manage complex workload under pressure and prioritise to meet service needs
- Persuasion and influencing skills - ability to present ideas and proposals effectively.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Integrity - Cares about and knows the importance of doing the right thing and making a difference. Possesses a straight talking and honest, whilst being diplomatic, communication style.
- Integrity - Possesses a straight talking and honest, whilst being diplomatic, communication style.
- Ownership- Embraces being in charge/control and takes full responsibility for the running of their clinical area.
- Ownership -Driven to get things done to ensure that both they and their team achieve.
- Ownership - Sets very high standards for themselves, their team and clinical area
- Delivery - Enjoys being in control and on top of everything that is going on in their clinical area.
- Delivery - Likes to be 'hands on' in the delivery of patient care in their department.
- Delivery - Thrives on having lots going on and rises to the challenge of constantly switching between different activities and issues.
- Delivery -Possesses a 'can do' approach to problems and will keep going when things are tough.
- Relating - Takes great satisfaction in developing others and seeing staff achieve and develop.
- Relating - Pick up on other people's needs sensing when something is wrong.
- Relating - Good at explaining things in simple and straightforward ways that others find easy to understand.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN Level one
- NMC registered
- To have completed the national practice assessor training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998.
- First degree or evidence of working towards one (demonstrating graduate attributes)
Desirable
- Management and Leadership Course
Experience
Essential
- Extensive relevant Critical Care experience
- Appropriate experience as a fully trained and competent critical care nurse in possession of a Post Basic Qualification and completion of specialist competencies.
- Ability to lead, motivate and develop a professional team
- Completion of relevant Critical Care management competencies
- Completion of relevant critical care management competencies
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Good understanding of the local and national strategic context of research in the NHS
- Ability to communicate effectively including active listening, writing, and verbally, with individuals on a one-to-one basis, with groups and the multidisciplinary team.
- Good understanding of the national strategic context of the NHS
- Excellent performance management skills.
- Highly developed leadership skills with excellent interpersonal skills - ability to form positive relationships at all levels.
- Ability to manage complex workload under pressure and prioritise to meet service needs
- Persuasion and influencing skills - ability to present ideas and proposals effectively.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Integrity - Cares about and knows the importance of doing the right thing and making a difference. Possesses a straight talking and honest, whilst being diplomatic, communication style.
- Integrity - Possesses a straight talking and honest, whilst being diplomatic, communication style.
- Ownership- Embraces being in charge/control and takes full responsibility for the running of their clinical area.
- Ownership -Driven to get things done to ensure that both they and their team achieve.
- Ownership - Sets very high standards for themselves, their team and clinical area
- Delivery - Enjoys being in control and on top of everything that is going on in their clinical area.
- Delivery - Likes to be 'hands on' in the delivery of patient care in their department.
- Delivery - Thrives on having lots going on and rises to the challenge of constantly switching between different activities and issues.
- Delivery -Possesses a 'can do' approach to problems and will keep going when things are tough.
- Relating - Takes great satisfaction in developing others and seeing staff achieve and develop.
- Relating - Pick up on other people's needs sensing when something is wrong.
- Relating - Good at explaining things in simple and straightforward ways that others find easy to understand.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
