Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse - Children's Emergency Department

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Band 6 Registered Nurse to join our Children’s Emergency Department. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated nurse to take on a leadership role within a fast-paced clinical environment, delivering high-quality emergency care to children and young people.

As a Band 6 Nurse, you will provide expert clinical care to our patients and their families whilst supporting the day-to-day coordination of the department. You will need to act as a role model for junior staff, contributing to clinical supervision, teaching, and the development within the department.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, you will support safe patient flow, effective escalation, and the delivery of family-centred care. Alongside other band 6 nurses you will be allocated to a team within the department and help provide training on selective team days as well as taking on link roles and use allocated management time to work on projects in the department.

You will need to demonstrate excellent clinical assessment skills, sound decision-making, and the ability to remain calm and organised in high-pressure situations.

We offer a supportive team environment, opportunities for leadership development, and access to ongoing education and training within paediatric emergency care.

To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUH’s ‘PRIDE’ values of People focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence and demonstrate behaviours that support and encourage an inclusive culture.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Ensure practice is in accordance with the NMC Code and work within limits of competence.
• Maintain a high standard of paediatric nursing care by acting as a professional Role Model to others
• Implement effective assessment and delegation of workload to more junior members of staff ensuring that their duties are carried out efficiently and competently.
• Carry out assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of nursing care to an individual or a group of patients, ensuring family centred care is actively encouraged where appropriate.
• Ensure continuity of care by reporting all changes and ongoing plans to staff at the beginning and end of shifts as appropriate to role. In the absence of a senior nurse ensuring adequate staff cover on a daily basis.
• To support bereaved relatives in the department and junior staff whilst they are undertaking this role.
• To ensure that clinical records and documentation are maintained accurately and incidents are reported in a timely manner
• Maintain accurate records of all care given and observations. Update the IT system collecting appropriate data as requested by the trust and DOH.
• To organise / supervise admission, discharge and transfer of patients, both into and out of the department, accurately recording the time of all moves.
• Communicate effectively with children, siblings, parents, carers, significant others, medical and nursing personnel, in often challenging and highly sensitive circumstances and act as the patients advocate as necessary. Communicate effectively with all supporting services and appropriate hospital departments.
• In the absence of the Senior sister/Children’s Matron take responsibility for the day to day operational management of the Children’s Emergency Department in order to meet the patient’s needs and those of the organisation, implementing appropriate action at times of staff shortages.

Please see the attached job description for full details.