Junior Sister/Charge Nurse - AAU (Band 6)
NHS AfC: Band 6
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At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come.
Job overview
The Acute Assessment Unit has recently relocated to a new purpose built facility and is co-located next to our beautiful Emergency Department. This has allowed Airedale to develop existing and new patient pathways into the Urgent Care stream including medicine, general surgery and orthopaedics.
Main duties of the job
Acute Assessment Unit (AAU)
Due to a vacancy within the senior nursing team, the AAU is looking for an enthusiastic Registered Nurse who wants to develop their leadership skills and join us as a Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse. The role has the support of a substantial Band 6 team, Band 7 Senior Clinical Sisters, Governance and Quality Lead Nurse, a Nursing Clinical Lead and Matron. You will be an active part of the senior leadership team, promoting excellent clinical skills, sound nursing care and trusting working relationships across a varied multidisciplinary team.
As part of your induction, the Urgent Care Clinical Educator will work with you to tailor an induction programme and development plan to achieve individual and departmental goals, and you will be given a senior nurse to support and mentor you.
The successful candidate will be expected to work flexibly and collaboratively to deliver high quality care, based within an environment that equally values its staff as well as its patients.
Working for our organisation
We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NMC Registration
* Teaching and assessing course/NVQ Assessor
* SLIP (or equivalent)
* Leadership/management Course
Experience
* Post registration experience (or equivalent)
* Recent Acute Clinical Experience
* Demonstrable clinical expertise, relevant to the area
* Experience in different care specialities
Knowledge
* Knowledge of the NHS Constitution & ‘Understanding the New NHS’
* Demonstrable interest in and commitment to the professional development of others
* Research Knowledge
* Competency in PICC line / Hickmann line cares
* An understanding of private patients' needs.
* Computing – Knowledge of Windows XP
* Understanding of haematology, oncology conditions and endocrine
Skills
* Ability to organise and manage day to day departmental activities and the activities of a large multidisciplinary team
* Team building and working skills – able to lead a team to achieve results
* Problem solving skills – able to respond to unexpected issues and provide first line response and to identify appropriate sources of secondary support
* Experience in working in an acute assessment environment
We are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities.
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