Employer: Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Alder Hey Children's Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/03/2025 23:59
HDU Sister/Charge Nurse
Band 6
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites. Our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at various locations. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. Our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trust's values and behaviours. At Alder Hey, we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
* Great flexible working opportunities
* Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
To provide clinical leadership on the High Dependency Unit by coordinating staffing and patients and maintaining safe delivery of high-quality care on the unit. To be a good role model to junior staff and to support the Clinical Nurse Manager with staff issues relating to staff development, poor performance, sickness, and absence.
Main duties of the job
* Co-ordinate the unit, staff, and patients, maintaining safety and delivery of quality care.
* Counsel, appraise and give guidance and support as required.
* Support the Clinical Nurse Managers in staff issues relating to sickness and absence, poor performance, and staff development.
* Ensure that Trust Management policies and procedures are understood and followed.
* Undertake delegated responsibility for specific areas of operational management.
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside and beyond. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our state-of-the-art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation, and oncology. We are becoming recognized as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research, and teach the next generation of children’s specialists.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. We provide the very best care while ensuring they feel happy, safe, and confident.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide clinical leadership on the High Dependency Unit by coordinating staffing and patients and maintaining safe delivery of high-quality care on the unit. To be a good role model to junior staff and to support the Clinical Nurse Managers with staff issues relating to staff development, poor performance, sickness, and absence.
* Communication Skills
* Analytical Skills
* Planning and Organising Skills
* Responsibility for Patient/Client Care
* Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources
* Responsibility for Human Resources
* Responsibility for Information Resources
* Responsibility for Research and Development
Person specification
Education and Training
* Successful completion of High Dependency care course
* Evidence of support, supervision, and training of junior staff.
* PLS
* APLS
Experience
* Demonstrated ability to supervise and lead a team of staff.
* Able to describe the responsibilities of the team leader and key leadership skills required.
* Effective team worker
* Knowledge of coordinator's role.
* Completion of the ATL competencies or other relevant competencies.
* Completion of Band 5-6 HDU development competencies.
Knowledge
* Able to discuss key issues in relation to the provision of critical care services.
Skills
* Effective verbal and written communication skills.
* Good organisational and problem-solving skills.
* Ability to plan and prioritise workload.
* Able to act on own initiative.
* Active in developing the nursing workforce.
* Ability to teach and assess junior nurses.
* Committed to the professional development of others.
* Evidence of creativity and promoting new ways of working.
Personal Attributes
* Able to work flexibly within the internal rotation roster consisting of days, nights, and weekends.
* Approachable
* Role Model
* Professional
We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying, and harassment.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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