Junior Sister - Urgent Care- Front Door Frailty Service
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)
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.
Main duties of the job
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, supported by training to develop leadership and management skills.
About us
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.
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
* Active 1st level registration with NMC
* Qualification in Teaching, assessing and Mentoring
* Willingness to work towards Masters level academic study
* Qualification in frailty/care of the older person
Skills and Abilities
* Organisation and management skills
* Teaching
* Ability to work effectively under pressure
* Ability to problem solve
* Flexibility, adaptability to meet needs of a changing service
* Ability to perform clinical activities specific to speciality
* Competency in medication administration including intravenous medication
* Ability to lead a team
* Ability to work alone or as part of a team
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Able to manage difficult situations
* Able to influence other team members
* Act as a role model and as a mentor/assessor
* Innovative and participates with practice and policy change
* Awareness of professional responsibilities to self and others
* Commitment to the development and provision of high quality nursing care
* Awareness of current national changes in nursing / NHS
* General good health, Able to work on feet for long periods.
Knowledge and Experience
* Appropriate post registration experience in nursing and frailty
* Appropriate proven leadership and management experience
* Proven commitment and experience, evidence in teaching
* Experience as preceptor / mentor
* Experience in undertaking a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA)
* Experience in assessment and management of older patients with frailty and complex needs
* Experience of undertaking research or audit projects
* Evidence of commitment to research based practice or evidence of project work undertaken
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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