Emergency Department Senior Sister/Charge Nurse
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
To be a Senior Sister/Charge Nurse for the Emergency Department (ED) working in partnership with the Matron to manage and provide leadership to the nursing team, in the provision of effective clinical and operational leadership across the ED.
To work collaboratively with the Lead Clinician and ED Manager, as well as the wider ED Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), to continuously improve and develop the ED.
Main duties of the job
The senior sister / charge nurse takes overall responsibility and is accountable for all delegated nursing care within the clinical environment. They provide nursing leadership and are accountable for patient, public and staff experience. They will lead, offer expert clinical advice and manage services to ensure the delivery of high quality, effective, and compassionate nursing care. This will be in line with local, Trust wide and national policies, procedures, values and behaviours and is essential they can provide both clinical care to patients.
Key Facts about our Trust:
* We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
* We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
* An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
* Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
* Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
* We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
* We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and Person Specification. To apply please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.
Person Specification
Experience
* NMC Registration
* Degree or relevant experience
* Minimum of 5 years ED experience
* Experience in the Emergency Department setting at Registered Nurse Level
* ALS
* APLS
* Experience working with paediatrics
Additional Experience
* Minimum of 3 years Band 6 experience.
* Mentoring and developing staff
* Leadership Experience
* Evidence of Major incident training completion.
* Demonstrable experience of project management / service improvement
* Demonstrable knowledge of clinical governance
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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