We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a part-time (15 hours per week) Band 6 Junior Sister within our Urgent Care - Front Door Frailty Service. This dynamic and innovative nursing role will focus on coordinating care, providing brokerage, and supporting admission avoidance strategies. As part of the role, you will offer clinical leadership to the nursing teams across Urgent Care - Emergency Department, SDEC (Same Day Emergency Care) and OPAU (Older Persons Assessment Unit), ensuring exceptional care for older patients with frailty and complex needs. The ideal candidate will bring experience in the assessment and management of older patients with excellent communication skills to liaise with internal and external agencies to plan appropriate care pathways. If you are passionate about making a difference in frailty care, we’d love to hear from you If you are a quality driven professional that strives to deliver high-quality service and care to our patients and their families, have the ability to work well within a dynamic and challenging environment and have a passion to develop your leadership skills and assist in the management and development of our junior staff, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for someone who is highly organised, pro-active and thrives in a busy, challenging environment. Your main role as a Band 6 is to co-ordinate the admissions, discharges and transfers of our older patients through Urgent Care whilst maintaining the safety of patients throughout this process. This is a challenging but rewarding role and the applicant must have excellent communication and problem-solving skills and have the ability to adapt to changing situations when under pressure. The successful candidate will be instrumental in supporting the Urgent Care staff with the continuous improvement of the area, effectively monitoring and maintaining excellent standards of care that are reflected by patient experience. Sound clinical knowledge and experience in an acute setting is essential as you will be expected to support and mentor the more junior nursing workforce. The successful candidate must demonstrate expertise in assessing and implementing appropriate care efficiently for older adults who are both current inpatients and new admissions within the fast paced environment of the emergency setting. The successful candidate can expect to have the opportunity for career development. They will be given support and training to develop leadership and management skills with further opportunities to develop your assessment skills as the Trust supports a wide range of training opportunities. University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Cheryl Smith Job title: Senior Sister and Practice Education Facilitator Email address: cheryl.smithuhbw.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01934 636363