Employer: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Northern General Hospital
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 17/04/2025
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. 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
To lead the nursing team in the delivery of high quality, evidence based, patient centred care within the Spinal Injuries Unit at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. To assist the ward manager in a wide range of complex and sometimes conflicting priorities. Provide specialist nursing advice to support and facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients/clients and relatives/carers in collaboration with the multi professional team, in line with local and national targets. At all times ensure that the needs of the patient are placed at the centre of care delivery. To be flexible in the approach to the clinical area and provide cover for any area specified. To ensure that the ward is well led and that the team are being proactive in the delivery of care.
The Sheffield Spinal Cord Injury Centre is one of the leading spinal cord injury centres nationally and one of eight centres in England designated to receive and treat patients with spinal cord injuries. Serving a population stretching as far as East Anglia, we are the second largest spinal cord injury centre in the UK and the regional centre for excellence for Yorkshire, North and North-West England, the East and West Midlands and East Midlands.
Main duties of the job
Provide high quality services to patients within the ward/department. Sheffield Spinal Cord Injuries Centre is a specialist unit within Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. The unit provides comprehensive care and extensive rehabilitation to patients with complex spinal cord injuries, across 3 inpatient wards; an outpatient facility with bespoke therapy facilities. The unit sits within the Specialist Rehabilitation Services Directorate and facilitates care for patients, carers, and families across the region, with a focus on rehabilitation and supporting patients to achieve their independence prior to discharge.
* To undertake and support in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of specific programmes of patient care.
* Ability to manage level 2 patients and experience in tracheostomy and ventilation care is desirable.
* Exercise judgement in assessing wide ranging patient problems and promote options for optimum patient care.
* To maintain effective communication with all patients, carers and members of the Healthcare team.
* To act sensitively, confidentially and with empathy in demonstrating understanding of wide ranging physical and emotional needs.
* Work unsupervised, in charge of the ward/dept within Trust Guidelines, Policies and Procedures and the NMC codes of conduct, seeking advice on non-routine matters from line managers or Duty Matron.
* To ensure accurate, contemporaneous and timely care records, both written and electronic.
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.
The Sheffield Spinal Cord Injury Centre provides a lifelong service to a population of patients. Patients are referred to us from across the UK. We also care for patients whose initial hospitalisation occurred abroad.
With a focus on empowering our patients to live as independently as possible, our purpose-built facilities include three dedicated wards, an outpatients’ centre, and specialist physiotherapy and occupational therapy units.
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.
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of a maximum of 9 months due to maternity leave of the substantive post holder. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts and statutory maternity provisions.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* RGN Level one
* NMC registered
* Assessing qualification and evidence of teaching ability
* First degree or evidence of working towards one (demonstrating graduate attributes)
Experience
* Extensive post registration experience in an acute clinical environment
* Extensive post registration experience caring for patients with long-term conditions and/or a spinal cord injury
* Ability to lead, motivate and develop a professional team
* Evidence of managing change
* Management and leadership Course
Skills and Knowledge
* Completion of the Spinal Course, or willingness to work towards
* Ability to communicate effectively including active listening, writing, and verbally, with individuals on a one-to-one basis and with groups.
* Good understanding of the national strategic context of the NHS
* 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 deadlines
* Persuasion and influencing skills – ability to present ideas and proposals effectively
* IT literate knowledge of e-whiteboard, Lorenzo and EDMS
Candidates are advised to read the attached guidance on using AI technology. When you complete your application, you are required to declare that the information in your application form is true and complete. The personal statement is exactly that; personal.
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You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. All communications should be sent via your Trac system account.
If you are offered employment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals your information will be transferred from the Trac recruitment system into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.
Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email sent via the Trac recruitment system; please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.
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.
Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered; please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.
All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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: Asia Ashraf
Job title: Senior Sister
Email address: asia.ashraf@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01142715612
Applicants can also contact Matron's PA, Matthew Morgan on matthew.morgan7@nhs.net
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