Main area: Critical Care/Intensive Care
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (Internal rotation to include weekends, nights and bank holidays. Part time hours must be a minimum of 23hrs per week)
Job ref: 216-LH-S6874463
Employer: University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Derriford Hospital
Town: Plymouth
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum Pro Rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/02/2025 23:59
Critical Care Band 6 Nurse
Job overview
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 co-ordinating 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.
As a Senior Staff Nurse you will be encouraged and supported to:
* Consolidate the Critical Care course
* Complete a QI project
* 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.
***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***
Main duties of the job
* To take charge of the Critical care area and lead the team on a day-to-day basis.
* Ensure effective communication with the multi-disciplinary team.
* Provide clinical expertise and work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* Ensure judicious use of resources and bed allocation to provide a high standard of care within critical care in the most cost-effective way.
* To be professionally accountable and responsible for the nursing care of a group of patients requiring critical care nursing, including paediatrics.
* 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process, please contact the recruitment team on 01752 432100.
We recognise that work-life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Ensure high standards of clinical practice in accordance with agreed policies, procedures and standards.
* Provide and deliver a high standard of nursing care by initiating and co-ordinating the comprehensive assessment, planning, and evaluating of individual patient needs based on evidence and use of relevant nursing models.
* 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.
* Possess key skills in patient management to assist medical staff in the complex assessment, resuscitation and frequent review of critically ill patients.
* Education regarding the setting up, calibration, troubleshooting and use of critical care specific equipment.
* Institute ventilation-weaning programmes following specific criteria.
* Co-ordinate patient transfer (level 1-3 patients) both within the trust and across divisions/organisational boundaries.
* Apply key aspects of critical care nursing to paediatric patients.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Current RN registration with the NMC
* Post basic critical care course (60 credits or equivalent)
* Proven evidence of continued academic and clinical development.
* Assessing and supervision course or equivalent
* Leadership course/module
* Completed step 4 competencies (National Framework for RN in Critical Care)
Knowledge and Skills
* Demonstrable experience within a similar role
* Recognised as advanced in terms of nursing practice, in aspects of care such as haemodynamic monitoring, ventilation, CVVH
* Previous demonstrable experience in a leadership capacity
* Demonstrable Paediatric ICU experience
Aptitude and Abilities
* 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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