Job summary
Job Title: Clinical Sister/Charge Nurse
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week (LD, weekends, bank holidays)(Part Time hours available too)
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 (dependant on experience)
Closing Date: 24th December 2024
Interview Date: 10th of January 2025
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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This is an exciting opportunity as a Clinical Sister/Charge Nurse for the SDEC unit whereby an individual to be able to further develop skills and work within a skilled fast-paced team. The Unit is a small, busy, and friendly team.
The SDEC unit works in conjunction with Our Virtual Ward service at George Eliot Hospital to look to support our patients and receive the care they may need.
Main duties of the job
- To take responsibility for the clinical leadership and direction of the nursing team.
- To promote and deliver a high standard of nursing care based on best practice to maintain patient safety and provide an excellent patient experience.
- To work and undertake clinical shifts.
- To work within the NMC Guidelines and Trust Policies recognizing one's own abilities and limitations.
- To facilitate and build team working between nurses and the multi-disciplinary team to effect high standards of care.
- To ensure effective communication with the multi-disciplinary team and respect the confidentiality of patients, relatives, and colleagues
- To perform a range of nursing skills as per trust policy including
- venepuncture, cannulation, and recording ECGs.
- To participate in all elements of direct patient care including harm prevention.
- To ensure all trust documentation pertaining to patient care and departmental safety are completed to a high standard.
- To practice in line with NMC Guidelines and Trust Policies, recognising own abilities and limitations.
- To promote good working relationships within the nursing teams, providing appropriate advice and support.
- To teach, mentor and supervise students and other junior staff, ensuring a high level of competence.
- To respond to deteriorating patients in a timely manner and taking responsibility for supporting junior staff in such situations.
- To undertake immediate life support as part of trust training.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To assist the Head of Nursing/Matron to review staffing requirements using a proactive approach to retention and recruitment of staff.
- To support the Matron/SDEC Unit Manager to initiate and implement improvements using a systematic approach.
- To ensure staffing levels within the area are adequate to provide safe and effective care delivery, maximising the resources that are available by competent duty rostering.
- Through effective negotiation and political awareness create an environment for partnership working and dissemination of information across multi-disciplinary teams.
- To ensure information on the Ward/Department/Clinical area information system is correct and updated regularly as appropriate.
- To deputise for Senior Nurse Practitioner in leading SDEC Team in their absence.
- To assist the Unit Manager/Senior Nurse Practitioners in monitoring and audit of SDEC standards including high impact interventions, KPI and target data.
- To maintain an accurate non-medical prescribing log and attend NMP meetings as per trust policy.
- To maintain an accurate non-medical prescribing log and attend NMP meetings as per trust policy.
- To co-ordinate SDEC daily, acting as the shift leader.
- To assist the Unit Manager and Senior Nursing Practitioners in maintaining safe staffing levels on the unit by managing and escalating staffing gaps, skill mix and sickness.
- To assist the Unit Manager/Senior Nursing Practitioners in disseminating best practice, including findings from complaints, incidents, and audit
- To escalate, report and challenge poor practice or contraventions of trust/local policy.
- Assist the SDEC Unit manager/Senior Nursing Practitioners in selection, appointment, orientation, appraisal, and development of nursing teams, including students.
The Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Unit is based across two clinical areas that consists of two clinical areas for its Planned and Unplanned (ED) pathways.
The emergency department (ED) pathway working hours are 08.30-21.00 and our Planned pathway working hours are 08.30-21.00.
This care model, whereby patients presenting at hospital with relevant conditions can be rapidly assessed, diagnosed, and treated without being admitted to a ward, and if clinically safe to do so, will go home with the possibility of continued care through our planned pathway which the unit offers for example blood transfusions or iron infusions.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To assist the Head of Nursing/Matron to review staffing requirements using a proactive approach to retention and recruitment of staff.
- To support the Matron/SDEC Unit Manager to initiate and implement improvements using a systematic approach.
- To ensure staffing levels within the area are adequate to provide safe and effective care delivery, maximising the resources that are available by competent duty rostering.
- Through effective negotiation and political awareness create an environment for partnership working and dissemination of information across multi-disciplinary teams.
- To ensure information on the Ward/Department/Clinical area information system is correct and updated regularly as appropriate.
- To deputise for Senior Nurse Practitioner in leading SDEC Team in their absence.
- To assist the Unit Manager/Senior Nurse Practitioners in monitoring and audit of SDEC standards including high impact interventions, KPI and target data.
- To maintain an accurate non-medical prescribing log and attend NMP meetings as per trust policy.
- To maintain an accurate non-medical prescribing log and attend NMP meetings as per trust policy.
- To co-ordinate SDEC daily, acting as the shift leader.
- To assist the Unit Manager and Senior Nursing Practitioners in maintaining safe staffing levels on the unit by managing and escalating staffing gaps, skill mix and sickness.
- To assist the Unit Manager/Senior Nursing Practitioners in disseminating best practice, including findings from complaints, incidents, and audit
- To escalate, report and challenge poor practice or contraventions of trust/local policy.
- Assist the SDEC Unit manager/Senior Nursing Practitioners in selection, appointment, orientation, appraisal, and development of nursing teams, including students.
The Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Unit is based across two clinical areas that consists of two clinical areas for its Planned and Unplanned (ED) pathways.
The emergency department (ED) pathway working hours are 08.30-21.00 and our Planned pathway working hours are 08.30-21.00.
This care model, whereby patients presenting at hospital with relevant conditions can be rapidly assessed, diagnosed, and treated without being admitted to a ward, and if clinically safe to do so, will go home with the possibility of continued care through our planned pathway which the unit offers for example blood transfusions or iron infusions.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- 2 years experience as band 5 in acute setting
- Evidence of CPD
- Ability to demonstrate clinical knowledge and expertise in acute medicine
- Mentorship or teaching qualification
- Demonstrates the awareness and impact of clinical governance
- Critical analytical skills
- RGN
- Experience of audit
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to have positive working relationships
- Enthusiastic, Self-motivated, and responsive to change.
- Evidence of time management skills and ability to prioritise
Desirable
- Health assessment
- Prescribing
- ALS
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- 2 years experience as band 5 in acute setting
- Evidence of CPD
- Ability to demonstrate clinical knowledge and expertise in acute medicine
- Mentorship or teaching qualification
- Demonstrates the awareness and impact of clinical governance
- Critical analytical skills
- RGN
- Experience of audit
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to have positive working relationships
- Enthusiastic, Self-motivated, and responsive to change.
- Evidence of time management skills and ability to prioritise
Desirable
- Health assessment
- Prescribing
- ALS
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).
