Employer: East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: AMU Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital
Town: Blackburn
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Pro Rata (Pay Award Pending)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/04/2025 23:59
Junior Sister / Charge Nurse - AMU
Band 6
At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal, and effective care. We currently provide high-quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overview
The Acute Medical Unit is looking to recruit band 6 nurses. We are looking for existing band 6s or band 5s that are ready to be developed into this role.
We are a dynamic, well-led 73-bedded unit, with 10 of those beds allocated to patients requiring higher observation beds (HOBS).
We admit and assess patients from the Emergency Department or directly from GPs and clinics.
Main duties of the job
We require enthusiastic individuals with a can-do attitude who have the ability to work within our friendly units and teams. You must be as passionate as we are in getting things right first time, every time. Commitment to undertake ongoing in-service training and development is essential.
Candidates must have the initiative to adapt to the changing demands of the service and be able to contribute to the development of service provision. They will need to be experienced in mentoring student nurses, holding a relevant mentorship and/or teaching qualification, and be supportive of junior members of the team. Additionally, they must have relevant experience at Band 5, enabling them to be confident in leading the team in a shift coordinator role. Ability to cover the department and provide reasonable flexibility in terms of hours worked, including varying shift patterns across days and nights, will be expected.
You should be motivated, keen to learn, and ready to embrace change. Our commitment to you is to provide the environment for this to happen and ensure that you are part of our ongoing development programmes. If you are motivated to deliver high standards of care and have the personal qualities and characteristics as outlined in the personal specification, then this could be the post for you.
Working for our organisation
At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal, and effective care. We currently provide high-quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 8,000 staff, many of whom have won awards for their work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To deliver SAFE, PERSONAL, and EFFECTIVE patient care on a daily basis. You should be an expert in all areas of nursing care from patient admission to discharge, which facilitates clinical practice development. You will actively support the ward/unit manager, ensuring the effective running of the unit in their absence. You will provide daily clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and support staff in the delivery of evidence-based patient-centred care.
This will be of a high standard. You are responsible for ensuring all care is delivered according to Trust policies and procedures. Utilising clinical audit, research, supervision of practice, and teaching, you will monitor and improve standards of care by efficient and effective use of resources.
The focus for the post holder will be in the following key areas:
1. Support the provision of a clean environment
2. Ensuring improvements in patient outcomes and the safety, effectiveness, and experience of their care
3. Assist in the development of nurse leadership, improvement, and management of services within the escalation ward area to ensure the highest standards of patient care and service are delivered in the most efficient and effective way
4. Treating patients with dignity and respect
5. Assist the ward manager in the provision of senior nurse leadership during both regular and unsocial hours
6. Assist the ward manager in ensuring all quality improvement work is implemented and sustained
7. Ensure safe and effective discharge planning
8. Supporting the delivery of the Nursing Strategy at all times
9. Be a confident role model for the junior nursing team
Person specification
Qualifications
* Able to deliver a high standard of evidence-based individual patient care
* Delivers nursing care in line with Trust policies and protocols
* Effective communicator with good leadership and interpersonal skills
* Evidence of ability to take charge in the absence of their direct line manager
* Post basic qualification in specialty
Experience, Knowledge & Skills
* Degree level studies or equivalent portfolio of evidence
* Demonstrates specialist knowledge across a range of work procedures and practices
* Evidence of professional expertise acquired through CPD
* Evidence of clinical expertise and knowledge acquired through CPD and experience
* Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners
* Evidence of involvement in the development of protocols and clinical audit
* Effective communicator with good leadership and interpersonal skills
* Evidence of leadership and team player
* Evidence of involvement in policy and practice changes arising from audit
* Experience in acute medicine, emergency department, critical care
Dear Potential Applicant,
It is important you are made aware of the following regarding your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust:
* Please note that the salary advertised is for full-time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
* This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore, it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
* Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
* Please note that shortlisting is completed anonymously with candidates being assessed against the essential criteria for the post. Therefore, only applicants who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our person specification criteria in their application will be short-listed.
Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS)
If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (2006), any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained.
The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy, you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed.
The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £55.38 and for a Standard Disclosure will be £27.38.
This cost is not applicable for a Volunteer post.
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The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying, and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust.
We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, or social background.
We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.
If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible by telephone 01254 732075 or email admin.recruitment@elht.nhs.uk or write to Employment Services, Parkview Offices, Haslingden Road, Blackburn, BB2 3HH.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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: Claire Adams
Job title: Assistant Matron
Email address: claire.adams@elht.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01254 734018
If you have problems applying, contact
Address: Employment Services
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
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