Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse - Children's Day Ward

Job overview

Are you enthusiastic, compassionate, self-motivated and want to develop your clinical and leadership skills? If so, this is the post for you! We are looking for a Deputy Sister for our Children’s Day Ward.

The Children’s Day Ward (CDW) provides care and treatment to a range of patients; from those requiring medical day case treatment, such as chemotherapy, specialist infusions, and bloods and cannulation; to elective surgeries and for pre-assessment..

Ensuring that patient safety is at the heart of everything we do. We’re looking for someone with excellent communication and organisational skills, overseeing and delivering a high standard of care to our Children’s Day Unit. The post holder will also be responsible for supporting with the safe staffing, governance and service development.

If you share our passion for providing best possible care to children and their parents when they need it the most and want to work in a team which consistently strives to provide every patient with the care we want for those we love most then we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The candidate would work within the CDW team providing care and treatments to a range of patients requiring medical or surgical interventions.

This opportunity would allow the successful candidate to work on a nurse led department where the team hold extensive specialist knowledge and skills, and it would allow the candidate to become experts in specialist skills, such as chemotherapy and cannulation.

The successful candidate would work with the multi-disciplinary team to provide care and specialist treatment to a range of patients, but specially building professional relationships with some of our long-term patients and their families. The candidate would need to be willing to develop their knowledge and skills and undertake further training, if skills were not held already.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Ensure practice is in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and work within limits of competence.
• Assist the Ward/Department manager in maintaining standards of nursing practice.
• Carry out and advise/supervise junior staff in the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluating of nursing care.
• Carry out the daily personal care of patients.
• To take charge of the clinical area in the absence of the Ward/Department Sister/ Charge Nurse.
• To ensure the patient administration systems e.g. PAS are up-dated to ensure real time data collection and confidentiality.
• To ensure the effective use of information technology for the benefit of patient care in accordance with the Trust’s Cyber Code of Conduct.
• To ensure the confidentiality of information (written, verbal, electronic) is maintained, whilst being aware of the Freedom for Information Act.
• To co-ordinate and monitor the progress of patients within their plan of care and to promptly and effectively communicate relevant changes in patient status to the multi-disciplinary team.

Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.

Please note that this advertised position, which is part of occupation code 2237 does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa. The Trust would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role due to it being part time hours.