Sister/Charge Nurse - Critical Care

Job overview

THEATRES, ANAESTHETICS, CRITICAL CARE, PAIN & PRE-OP DIRECTORATE

Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse – CRITICAL CARE

Permanent

An opportunity has arisen for a sister/charge nurse within the Critical Care team.

The post holder will hold a post graduate academic award in critical care and current/recent experience within the critical care setting.  They will provide clinical  leadership to the nursing team and effectively manage the clinical area daily, while maintaining professional and trust standards.

Main duties of the job

Some of the main duties include:

• -To effectively lead and manage the nursing team as required, ensuring trust vision is realised.
• -Maintenance of high standards of nursing care – ensuring adherence to trust policies, procedures and guidelines.
• -To take responsibility for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care to critically ill patients.
• -Ensure the delivery of holistic patient care recognising the individual needs of patients and their relatives.
• - Lead the nursing team to deliver care that helps improve the health of the individual or promote a dignified death.
• -Provide effective leadership and management to nursing teams, always ensuring service provision.
• -To support capacity management and flow
• -Promote and safeguard the well-being of all staff, patients and visitors.
• -Act as an advocate for safeguarding patients, demonstrating courage to speak up as professionally required.
• -Prioritise workload effectively to manage competing priorities of the clinical area.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake.