Main area Critical Care Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (minimum of 30 hours) Job ref 190-0165-DIR
Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Cross Site Town Sheffield Salary £37,338 - £44,962 pa/pro rata for part time staff Salary period Yearly Closing 20/04/2025 23:59 Interview date 01/05/2025
Critical Care Sister/Charge Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to develop your career within our General Critical care Units at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and Northern General Hospital. We are looking for highly motivated, patient-focussed, competent critical care nurses to assist the ward managers in managing these acute and dynamic units.
Critical Care accepts elective and emergency Level 2 or 3 patients to NGH D and E floor Critical Care and RHH CCD from a wide variety of specialities including: Vascular; Renal; Burns; Plastic Surgery; Spinal Injuries; Trauma/Orthopaedics; Haematology; Oncology; Gynaecology, Obstetrics, ENT, Urology, Vascular Surgery; General Medicine and General Surgery.
Applications are invited from UK Registered Nurses who have extensive experience in critical care nursing. They must be a fully trained and competent critical care nurse in possession of the critical care course or equivalent and have appropriate post-course specialist competencies and experience. Working towards completion of critical care management workbook is essential. Applicants should have completed the national PEAP programme for practice supervisors or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998 and a relevant management course is desirable.
Candidates must be able to demonstrate management and leadership skills. Clinical expertise and organisational ability are also vital, together with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Main duties of the job
These positions are permanent and include rotation between our three general units, across two hospital sites.
The main duties of the role are to provide high quality, evidence based care to patients within the critical care directorate. You will be expected to develop and provide specialised programmes of nursing care to a diverse range of patients. To lead a team of qualified nurses, support staff and student team members. To take charge of the ward / department regularly. And to support the Senior Sister / Senior Charge Nurse in ensuring the highest standard and quality of nursing care is delivered.
You will need to be flexible and passionate about delivering care to critically ill patients.
Please note this advertisement is for both full time and part time opportunities.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Our patients and staff are not numbers they are individuals. Proud to make a Difference is not just our slogan but the way we do things. If you are looking for a role or career that excites you, stretches your potential and gives you job satisfaction, we would love to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
* RGN Level one
* NMC registered
* To have completed the national practice assessor training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998.
* First degree or evidence of working towards one (demonstrating graduate attributes)
* Management and Leadership Course
Experience
* Extensive relevant Critical Care experience
* Appropriate experience as a fully trained and competent critical care nurse in possession of a Post Basic Qualification and completion of specialist competencies.
* Ability to lead, motivate and develop a professional team
* Completion of relevant Critical Care management competencies
Skills and Knowledge
* Good understanding of the local and national strategic context of research in the NHS
* Ability to communicate effectively including active listening, writing, and verbally, with individuals on a one-to-one basis, with groups and the multidisciplinary team.
* Good understanding of the national strategic context of the NHS
* Excellent performance management skills.
* Highly developed leadership skills with excellent interpersonal skills – ability to form positive relationships at all levels.
* Ability to manage complex workload under pressure and prioritise to meet service needs
* Persuasion and influencing skills – ability to present ideas and proposals effectively.
Personal Qualities
* Integrity - Cares about and knows the importance of doing the right thing and making a difference. Possesses a straight talking and honest, whilst being diplomatic, communication style.
* Ownership- Embraces being in charge/control and takes full responsibility for the running of their clinical area.
* Delivery - Enjoys being in control and on top of everything that is going on in their clinical area.
* Delivery - Likes to be ‘hands on’ in the delivery of patient care in their department.
* Delivery - Thrives on having lots going on and rises to the challenge of constantly switching between different activities and issues.
* Delivery -Possesses a ‘can do’ approach to problems and will keep going when things are tough.
* Relating - Takes great satisfaction in developing others and seeing staff achieve and develop.
* Relating - Good at explaining things in simple and straightforward ways that others find easy to understand.
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The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Annabel White Job title Matron Email address annabel.white@nhs.net Telephone number 0114 3055078 Additional information
Gemma Smith (Royal Hallamshire Hospital) on 0114 271 3171
Amy Spowage, David Burtonwood, Sue Armitage (Northern General Hospital, Critical Care D Floor) on 0114 271 4124
KIrsty Allen, Victoria Troman, Leanne Eeles (Northern General Hospital, Critical Care E Floor) on 0114 2269817
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