Senior Sister

4 weeks ago


Wolverhampton, United Kingdom The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

Have you got the inspiration, enthusiasm, drive and motivation to spearhead this exciting service? Do you have significant experience in paediatric care at Band 6/7 level and feel ready and able to take on this new challenge?

As the Senior Sister, you will have demonstrable excellent clinical, organisational, communication and team building skills, evidence of successfully delivering high quality holistic care, support and teaching to young people, families and the wider caring team, and development of your current team. In addition, you will clearly demonstrate commitment to and development of the service to ensure all requirements of the agenda are met.

In return, the Trust is committed to personal and professional development; the successful applicant will receive support and training to deliver the requirements of the role, to achieve their full potential and to become a key member of the management team.

Main duties of the job

To be professionally accountable and maintain the standards of professional practice as set by the appropriate regulatory body applicable to your profession or role.

In a supervisory role utilise supervision of clinical practice, clinical audit, research, and teaching, to set, monitor and improve standards of care in addition to efficient and effective use of resources.

To be accountable for :

Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice

Enhancing the patient's experienceManaging and developing the performance of the team

Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation's objectives

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for a full detail of role and main responsibilities

Person Specification

Essential and desirable

Essential

NMC registered nurse Child Branch Teaching Qualification

Desirable

Management Qualification
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