Senior Sister / Charge Nurse

Job overview

We are seeking  a motivated and enthusiastic Senior Sister /Charge Nurse to join our dynamic team within the Emergency Department. You will need to have excellent leadership and clinical skills and be able to effectively act as a team leader, providing clinical leadership and management support to ensure agreed standards, objectives and targets are met. Suitable candidates should have a substantial experience in Emergency Nursing.

Please be advised that this post will involve a rotational shift pattern

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking  a motivated and enthusiastic Senior Sister /Charge Nurse to join our dynamic team within the Emergency Department. You will need to have excellent leadership and clinical skills and be able to effectively act as a team leader, providing clinical leadership and management support to ensure agreed standards, objectives and targets are met.

• Accountable for own actions in accordance with Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute towards corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times.
• Highly developed communication skills enabling maintenance of high quality service and ensuring timely management and resolution of unexpected events and situations.
• A knowledgeable team leader, supporting staff, service and policy development within a defined area/speciality.
• A resource for staff, advising on national, local and Trust policy and procedures/guidelines, ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice.
• Responsible for identifying and assessing complex clinical and non-clinical issues, implementing resolutions and monitoring/auditing outcomes.
• Undertake highly specialised technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; complex patient monitoring; equipment management and defined expanded clinical roles e.g suturing.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Responsible for training provision of identified staff groups within defined areas.
• Utilise and ensure others utilise IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data available.
• Regularly manage expected and unexpected clinical events requiring high but unpredictable levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need.
• Support patients, carers and staff during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g breaking bad news or following an unexpected event.
• Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.