Job Summary
We are looking for experienced and aspiring Critical Care Nurses, ideally with Band 6 experience.
Penrose Ward is an 18 bedded Critical care unit supporting a variety of specialties for both elective and emergency admissions, including Major Trauma.
You are primarily responsible for leading teams of nursing staff and coordinating care within the critical care setting.
You will have a professional and positive attitude and will be an exemplar role model whilst setting and maintaining high standards, and supporting continuing education for staff.
Act within the NMC code of conduct, scope of professional practice, and meeting revalidation criteria.
B6 Advanced RN post - for staff who have recently completed the Critical care course:
As a Senior Staff nurse you will be encouraged and supported to:
1. Consolidate the Critical care course
2. Attend manager/leaders passport SD's
3. Complete a QI project
4. Complete the Step 4 leadership competency book.
Following completion of the above, you will follow a pay progression pathway to Junior Sister/Charge Nurse and Team Leader. Candidates will be placed on the appropriate stage of the pathway.
Main duties of the job:
1. To take charge of Critical care area and leading team on a day to day basis.
2. Ensure effective communication with the multi-disciplinary team.
3. Provide clinical expertise and work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
4. Ensure judicious use of resources and bed allocation to make sure that a high standard of care within critical care is provided in the most cost effective way.
5. To be professionally accountable and responsible for the nursing care of a group of patients or patient, requiring critical care nursing, including those who are paediatrics.
6. To provide support, evidence based clinical advice and expertise to junior colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team on an ongoing basis. Supervise and direct junior staff, healthcare assistants and learners.
About Us
We are a people business - where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment.
Job Description
Job responsibilities:
1. Ensure high standards of clinical practice in accordance with agreed policies, procedures and standards.
2. Provide and deliver a high standard of nursing care by initiating and coordinating the comprehensive assessment, planning, and evaluating of individual patient needs based on evidence and use of relevant nursing models.
3. Coordinate, report and document any relevant nursing/patient needs, communicating changes with other health care professionals with ongoing responsibility for patient care as they occur.
4. Possess key skills in patient management to assist medical staff in the complex assessment, resuscitation and frequent review of critically ill patients.
5. Apply key aspects of critical care nursing to paediatric patients, and also be able to support colleagues caring for paediatric patients by way of recognisable expertise/experience.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential:
* Current RN registration with the NMC
* Post basic critical care course (60 credits or equivalent)
* Completed Step 3 Competencies
* Proven evidence of continued academic and clinical development.
* Assessing and supervision course or equivalent
Knowledge and Skills Essential:
* Demonstrable experience within a similar role
* Recognised as advanced in terms of nursing practice, in aspects of care such as haemodynamic monitoring, ventilation, CVVH
Aptitude and Abilities Essential:
* Good communication skills, written and verbal, with ability to demonstrate fluency, clarity and effectiveness at all levels
* Effective influencing skills; in general and with senior health care professionals
* Teaching and mentoring skills
* Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others
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