Are you looking for a new challenge, working and leading a great team on Chelmer Ward where excellent patient care is the main focus? This position offers a structured education, training, and development programme to help you develop your skills and knowledge.
Your primary role will be to work as a skilled member of the surgical nursing team, assisting in the provision of high-quality care to patients and families, including assessment and evaluation of patients, then following agreed care pathways.
You will develop and maintain good unit management and organisational skills and assist with the provision of an environment conducive to the education of staff. Duties also include the cleaning, maintenance, and safe handling of equipment.
As Charge Nurse, you will be expected to demonstrate a high level of knowledge and clinical expertise in the management of patients requiring cardiothoracic care, including patients requiring drain management, pacing, epidural, and PVB. This will include supervising junior members of staff and assessing, planning, delivering, and evaluating patient care, utilising an individual, holistic approach ensuring accurate and thorough initial and ongoing assessment of all patients admitted electively or as emergencies.
Your role will include teaching, facilitating, and developing members of the Ward team. In the absence of the Ward Manager, you will assume managerial responsibility for the Ward, assisting in the planning, coordination, and management of human, financial, and physical resources within Chelmer Ward, whilst reporting and investigating accidents/incidents timely as per Trust Policy and investigating complaints and writing reports as required.
You will maintain a high standard of effective communication with the Ward Manager and all members of the Ward team, delegating appropriately and supervising the clinical work of nursing and ancillary staff to ensure the highest standard of patient care and adherence to Trust policy whilst acting as a role model for junior staff.
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people. We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate, and build careers.
From facilities through to consultant specialists, we want to be the best. To achieve this, we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important, but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking, and enthusiastic, we want you to join us.
We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.
Are you a leader with demonstrable teaching skills? Then we want to hear from you.
Please see the attached JD for further details of this exciting role.
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