Junior Sister/Charge Nurse

NHS; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000

Job description

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Northumbria Critical Care. Northumbria Critical Care is a 15 bedded Critical Care unit within a Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.

Critical care is a busy, progressive unit with a clear patient-centred focus. We have made a strong commitment to quality. The team has a strong emphasis on developing health care practice through ownership, research/evidence-based practices, commitment, and multidisciplinary involvement, experience of which would be desirable.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

1. To co-ordinate and organise all staff within the department to provide quality nursing care and management for the critical care unit.
2. To share skills/knowledge with colleagues and learners.
3. To contribute towards development within the critical care unit.
4. Internal rotation day and night.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High-quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job responsibilities

1. To provide and facilitate quality nursing care to the critically ill patient.
2. Rostered to take charge regularly of the department and deputise for the team leader.
3. To facilitate the process of education and development of nursing and non-nursing staff within the team.
4. Provide specialist advice for multidisciplinary staff working within the unit and as an Outreach resource.
5. To contribute to the overall development of clinical practice within critical care.
6. To support Modern Matron and Senior Sisters in the effective management of resources and personnel issues over a 24 hr period.
7. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables, and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A registered nurse on part 1 of the professional register, with current NMC registration.
• Specialised knowledge and experience through appropriate qualification in Critical Care nursing.
• Relevant teaching and assessing qualification to assist in cascading specialised skills/knowledge.
• Advanced/Intermediate Life Support Certificate.
• Diploma/Degree in Nursing.
• Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
• ECDL.

Experience

• Significant post-registration experience in critical care.

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.

Address

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital