Senior Sister/ Senior Charge Nurse

1 month ago


Portsmouth Hampshire, United Kingdom Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Full time

The Queen Alexandra Hospital Emergency Department is searching for a dynamic and experienced Senior Sister/Charge Nurse to join our dedicated team. As a Senior Sister/Charge Nurse you will be supporting the ED Matrons in the delivery of a cost-effective service, collaborating with members of the multi-disciplinary team to provide quality and safe care for all patients. You will have governance responsibilities and work alongside Practice Education team to facilitate change in response to incidents and feedback to all levels. You will provide a high standard of clinical leadership and expertise, while focusing on patient safety and experience. This will incorporate the development and supervision of all staff including the Emergency Department senior nursing team. If you have an extensive nursing leadership and management experience and passion for patient care and commitment to quality, you might be the next Emergency Department Senior Sister/Charge Nurse we are looking for

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities: Lead and co-ordinate the nursing team, taking continuing responsibility on a 24 hours basis for the management and organisation of the clinical area. Through effective leadership ensure the clinical team delivers a safe, effective, responsive, caring and well-led service where compassion is embedded and a positive patient experience is achieved. Provide strong professional clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and act as a professional role model. A highly skilled clinical expert with specialised knowledge in caring for patients and their carers Promote operational leadership, together with the MDT, to provide and maintain flow thorough the department, facilitating patient safety

About us

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff. Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

Lead and co-ordinate the nursing team, taking continuing responsibility on a 24 hours basis for the management and organisation of the clinical area.

Through effective leadership ensure the clinical team delivers a safe, effective, responsive, caring and well-led service where compassion is embedded and a positive patient experience is achieved.

Provide strong professional clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and act as a professional role model.

A highly skilled clinical expert with specialised knowledge in caring for patients and their carers

Key Responsibilities:

Clinical/Professional

Promote and set high standards of professional nursing care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust policies, protocols and guidelines. Implement the trust values and beliefs ensuring they are embedded into everyday practice and evaluate their impact on the patients experience.

Provide strong professional nursing leadership to staff within sphere of clinical responsibility. Lead and motivate staff by giving clear direction and setting achievable objectives.

Continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.

Maintain a high visible presence within the clinical area ensuring that patients, visitors, healthcare staff and the multidisciplinary team, have access to senior staff at all times. Act as an effective professional role model and expert clinician.

Develop the ward/department philosophy and models of care to ensure that all policies and procedures are implemented and to lead on the development of nursing practice. Ensure that all staff understand the significance of this philosophy to practice, monitoring its impact on the patient experience.

Ensure that all nursing issues relating to the implementation of patient quality and safety are addressed on the ward/department. This includes monitoring and evaluating standards of care by the clinical team and providing regular feedback to the ward team on the standards of nursing care.

Implement evidence based practice, initiate, manage and evaluate changes that lead to improved and high standards of care and in particular any service changes following feedback from patients. Use information to inform Business Plans for the specialty.

Communicating, influencing and working with the multidisciplinary team in different ways to improve quality of care, and informed clinical decisions. Promote innovation and participate in benchmarking and quality audits to measure effectiveness of current practices.

In collaboration with other areas and the Matron, improve and maintain standards of fundamental nursing care, using tools such as the Portsmouth Bundle.

In collaboration with members of the multidisciplinary team, ensure that the users of the service and their families have a positive experience and using feedback (Elephant Surveys, Family and Friends Test, concerns and complaints) evaluate patient processes and pathways of care are redesigned as required.

Create a culture for learning and development that will sustain person-centred safe and effective care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential


  • Current RN, registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
  • Post Registration competency pack in Emergency Medicine Nursing
  • Teaching Certificate Mentorship course or evidence of teaching ability

Desirable


  • Degree in relevant field or evidence of working towards degree
  • ALS / ATLS / APLS / ILS / PILS

Experience

Essential


  • Minimum of 2 years Emergency Nursing Experience at band 6 with evidence of CPD
  • Management and Leadership skills and the ability to cope with and manage change

Desirable


  • Evidence of teaching experience (formal/informal/nominated lead for skill ie: infection control/student coordinator/equipment/link nurse)
  • Experience with Individual Performance Review (IPR)

Additional criteria

Essential


  • Organisational skills and the ability to lead a team with specialist knowledge and expertise
  • Articulate and knowledgeable in current health care issues and initiatives
  • Completion of suture/plaster/ splints packs or evidence of equivalent
  • Evidence of completion of triage Streaming pack and at least 12 18 month consolidation
  • Venepuncture/ Cannulation
  • Effective Communication skills between all levels of staff
  • Effectively use /able to teach Resus equipment

Desirable


  • ECG Interpretation
  • Advance Splint application (Thomas Splint)
  • IT Skills

Employer details

Employer name

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Address

Queen Alexandra Hospital, Southwick Hill Road

Portsmouth

PO63LY

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