Employer: Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
Town: Gloucester
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/11/2024 23:59
Ward Sister or Charge Nurse, Band 6
Band 6
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
Job overview
Ward Sister or Charge Nurse, Band 6 (23 hours a week)
As a ward sister or charge nurse you would be responsible for managing and leading the nursing team as a key member of the multidisciplinary team. You will deliver, coordinate and supervise patient care, ensuring that the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care is of high standard, encompassing the Trust vision of “best care for everyone”.
You will be visible within the clinical area, role modelling evidence-based practices and high standards of patient care, communication and organisation for others to follow. You will work collaboratively and cohesively with the multidisciplinary team to meet the needs of patients and their families.
Main duties of the job
This is a fixed term Band 6 post as a ward sister or charge nurse on the Head and Neck inpatient ward. The post holder will:
1. Work collaboratively with colleagues to lead the nursing team within Head and Neck inpatient ward in an engaged, collaborative, cohesive, pro-active and progressive manner to maintain ‘Outstanding’ standards of patient care and service delivery.
2. Deliver and role model expert clinical patient care and operational decision making within Head and Neck speciality.
3. Work in a manner that promotes shared leadership and on-going professional development of self and others.
4. Collaborate with the senior team to drive patient safety and quality forwards through the development and implementation of service and quality improvement projects.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
1. Deliver, demonstrate and supervise safe and appropriate care within a challenging and changing clinical environment, using highly specialised equipment and resources.
2. Communicate effectively with patients, especially where the patient’s ability to communicate is compromised.
3. Administer, demonstrate and supervise the delivery of medications, including multiple continuous infusions, within the Procedure for the Ordering, Prescribing, and Administration of Medications (POPAM) guidelines.
4. Work collaboratively alongside other health professionals to provide high standards of care for patients within Head and Neck speciality.
5. Take a key role in the implementation of any clinical initiative or introduction of new equipment within Head and Neck ward.
6. Take an active clinical leadership role and act as shift co-ordinator.
7. Work continuously to promote and support clinical training, education and development of other staff within the Head and Neck inpatient ward and beyond.
Management
1. Work alongside the Matron, Band 7, consultants and wider team to help determine and deliver on strategic service objectives.
2. Maintain patient flow and capacity within agreed procedures.
3. Support the maintenance of the electronic roster, alongside the Band 7 to ensure that it is kept up to date.
4. Manage any patient, relative or staff complaints in line with the Trust complaints procedure.
5. Deliver and support staff appraisals and promote mandatory training to achieve key performance indicators.
6. Take responsibility for the health and safety of patients, relatives and staff and contribute towards clinical and environmental risk assessments and risk reduction practices.
Leadership
1. Lead the nursing team in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care within the multidisciplinary team.
2. Support the development of a highly skilled, motivated and engaged workforce which continually strives to improve patient, relative and staff experience.
3. Role model high standards of patient care, communication, commitment and organisation for others to follow.
4. Encourage and promote a ‘shared leadership’ model, enabling and empowering others to take the lead with various initiatives.
5. Lead or actively support all agreed quality improvements within Head and Neck speciality.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Active registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council as a Registered Nurse
* Management/leadership qualification or equivalent level of skill gained through experience
* Recognised teaching and assessing qualification
* Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
* Postgraduate qualification in Head and Neck Nursing or relevant qualification
* Completion of Silver Quality Improvement
Experience
* Appropriate experience working in a Head and Neck service or relevant speciality
* Evidence of building effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team and other key stakeholders
* Experience of managing individuals to include objective setting, learning and development and reviewing of progress against development plans
* Experience of leading and managing change
Knowledge
* In depth knowledge of Head and Neck patients and operational processes within the speciality
* Knowledge of the trust appraisal and development process
* A good understanding of clinical governance, incident reporting and investigating
* Strong, professional leadership qualities, assertive and self-confident individual
* Demonstrates ability to question and challenge nursing practice in a constructive way.
The health and wellbeing of our staff and patients remains the priority of the Trust. Vaccination remains the best chance we have of conquering COVID and the Trust encourages everyone to take up this offer.
Please note, this vacancy may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested.
Committed to safeguarding our community
If applicable for the post, all successful candidates will be required to pay for their own Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The Trust is a safeguarding employer committed to the safeguarding and promotion of welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
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