Junior sister / charge Nurse Treatment Centre Band 6
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,471 - £50,364 incl. HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Chelsea - London, SW10 9NH |
| Company: | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6200594/289-PL-1278 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Junior sister / charge Nurse Treatment Centre Band 6
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse role in to a world class Theatre team here in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Chelsea site.
You must have significant experience at a Band 6 level- Orthopaedics - intraoperative care, and demonstrate strong leadership skills and are able to attend to any clinical emergency that may arise during the shift.
The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Treatment Centre Theatres caters to a wide variety of surgical patients. It is further divided in various theatre complexes within the hospital main site which all theatre nurses practitioners are expected to rotate.
The successful post holder would be required/expected to have the highest standards of clinical care. You must have the drive to be highly innovative, be able to prioritise your workload and must possess excellent communication skills as this post involves multiple liaisons with different departments and multi-disciplinary team. You must demonstrate a flexible approach with taking charge of the unit yet have a strong conviction to meet the set targets and demands of a busy unit.
This post requires the individual to be able to work innovatively and flexibly as theatre lists can be challenging and may over run. This includes working in MTH or/and LGF at times to deliver a safe and excellent patient centred care.
The post holder will be a clearly identifiable senior clinical staff member, and team leader. They will have significant clinical experience, provide sound clinical expertise to their team, and coordinate and deliver high quality care. They will be a role model for expert clinical care, and lead on specific projects / management functions as delegated by the Sister / Charge Nurse. They will role model the identified Trust values at all times.
In general settings, they will be the assigned deputy for their manager, generally known as a Junior Sister / Charge Nurse, coordinating clinical, managerial and education requirements of the area, and being a role model for team members, whilst delivering and overseeing high standards of care. In midwifery settings they will be called a Midwife.
In specialist settings, they will have a significant level of specialist clinical knowledge and expertise in the clinical functions of care delivery. They will provide advice and guidance also, and generally be known as a senior staff nurse
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
Roles and responsibilities
Clinical:
• Lead on assessing planning and implementing high quality care, and evaluating care options for patients in the clinical area, in line with the Trust values and objectives
• Lead on complex clinical care for Orthopaedics patients within their area
• Ensure the safe custody, maintenance and administration of medication, in accordance with established Trust policy
• Promote and maintain a safe therapeutic environment for Ortho patients, their families and staff, according to national and local Infection Control guidelines, Health & Safety legislation and Trust policies and objectives
• Coordinate post-surgical transfers, promoting timely and safe processes for them
• Ensure that ortho patient flow and the management of beds is effective and safe
• Ensure the delivery of high quality end of life care in line with national pathways, eg WHO Safety Surgical Checklist
• Provide sound evidence based clinical advice as required to staff and patients
• Maintain a good understanding and implementation of clinical escalation procedures as required
• Understand the Trust clinical governance framework, and participate in the promoting and safeguarding of high standards of care, through effective risk management & governance, and adherence to the Trust values
• Ensure that the team promote, ensure and adhere to the Trust safeguarding polices
• Undertake effective multi professionally work with colleagues to deliver care
• Coordinate and manage nurse led clinics where appropriate
• Coordinate specialist functions, including making clinical decisions where appropriate
• Monitor quality of standards of care, in line with CQC requirements and Trust and Divisional objectives
• Deliver and supervise a high quality patient experience
• Work with manager to collect and disseminate data on quality indicators etc, in line with national and Trust objectives
• Maintain a safe working environment, including ensuring equipment is safe, and used in line with Trust policy and values
• Promote and maintain patient safety at all times, including proactively implementing falls prevention
• Lead role in the detection, management and prevention of safeguarding issues
• Have an awareness of current professional and clinical developments within their area of practice and promote this to others
1. Leadership and management:
• Manage the day to day staffing arrangements and rotas, to ensure safe levels of practice
• Be in charge of a theatre list on a regular basis
• Ensure staffs adhere to Trust protocols of care, e.g. Infection Control
• Take continuing responsibility for the Unit/ Department in absence of Sister or floor coordinator
• Lead and manage their own clinical team within general clinical areas, and of the total team in the absence of the Theatre Sister, in line with Trust values
• Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with other professional groups, and staff generally within the Division and the Trust
• Contribute to the effective management of the area by ensuring correct levels of staff are in place to deliver and assist with the planning of off duty rotas
• Assist in the delivery of induction / orientation of new staff
• Act as a role model, ensuring staff work to Trust guidelines and PROUD values
• Supervise, under the direction of their manager, the work of qualified and unqualified staff and learners
• Provide clinical support and guidance to staff
• Act as a resource for clinical knowledge to staff
• Initiate action on complaints & incident management and responses, and assist in their investigation and resolution
• Participate in recruitment and selection, and develop effective selection and interviewing skills
• Undertake appraisals of staff, following training
• Chair team meetings as required
• Lead on specific projects, as indicated and agreed by manager
• Have a working knowledge of budget arrangements for area, focussing on cost effectiveness and quality, to ensure maximum use of resource. Close control of consumables and top up items, chasing the orders and leasing with Procurement appropriately
• Understand and manage local change with team members, including the embedding of new projects
PLEASE SEE JD/PS FOR FULL DUTIES OF THE ROLE
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024
Junior sister / charge Nurse Treatment Centre Band 6
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse role in to a world class Theatre team here in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Chelsea site.
You must have significant experience at a Band 6 level- Orthopaedics - intraoperative care, and demonstrate strong leadership skills and are able to attend to any clinical emergency that may arise during the shift.
The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Treatment Centre Theatres caters to a wide variety of surgical patients. It is further divided in various theatre complexes within the hospital main site which all theatre nurses practitioners are expected to rotate.
The successful post holder would be required/expected to have the highest standards of clinical care. You must have the drive to be highly innovative, be able to prioritise your workload and must possess excellent communication skills as this post involves multiple liaisons with different departments and multi-disciplinary team. You must demonstrate a flexible approach with taking charge of the unit yet have a strong conviction to meet the set targets and demands of a busy unit.
This post requires the individual to be able to work innovatively and flexibly as theatre lists can be challenging and may over run. This includes working in MTH or/and LGF at times to deliver a safe and excellent patient centred care.
The post holder will be a clearly identifiable senior clinical staff member, and team leader. They will have significant clinical experience, provide sound clinical expertise to their team, and coordinate and deliver high quality care. They will be a role model for expert clinical care, and lead on specific projects / management functions as delegated by the Sister / Charge Nurse. They will role model the identified Trust values at all times.
In general settings, they will be the assigned deputy for their manager, generally known as a Junior Sister / Charge Nurse, coordinating clinical, managerial and education requirements of the area, and being a role model for team members, whilst delivering and overseeing high standards of care. In midwifery settings they will be called a Midwife.
In specialist settings, they will have a significant level of specialist clinical knowledge and expertise in the clinical functions of care delivery. They will provide advice and guidance also, and generally be known as a senior staff nurse
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
Roles and responsibilities
Clinical:
• Lead on assessing planning and implementing high quality care, and evaluating care options for patients in the clinical area, in line with the Trust values and objectives
• Lead on complex clinical care for Orthopaedics patients within their area
• Ensure the safe custody, maintenance and administration of medication, in accordance with established Trust policy
• Promote and maintain a safe therapeutic environment for Ortho patients, their families and staff, according to national and local Infection Control guidelines, Health & Safety legislation and Trust policies and objectives
• Coordinate post-surgical transfers, promoting timely and safe processes for them
• Ensure that ortho patient flow and the management of beds is effective and safe
• Ensure the delivery of high quality end of life care in line with national pathways, eg WHO Safety Surgical Checklist
• Provide sound evidence based clinical advice as required to staff and patients
• Maintain a good understanding and implementation of clinical escalation procedures as required
• Understand the Trust clinical governance framework, and participate in the promoting and safeguarding of high standards of care, through effective risk management & governance, and adherence to the Trust values
• Ensure that the team promote, ensure and adhere to the Trust safeguarding polices
• Undertake effective multi professionally work with colleagues to deliver care
• Coordinate and manage nurse led clinics where appropriate
• Coordinate specialist functions, including making clinical decisions where appropriate
• Monitor quality of standards of care, in line with CQC requirements and Trust and Divisional objectives
• Deliver and supervise a high quality patient experience
• Work with manager to collect and disseminate data on quality indicators etc, in line with national and Trust objectives
• Maintain a safe working environment, including ensuring equipment is safe, and used in line with Trust policy and values
• Promote and maintain patient safety at all times, including proactively implementing falls prevention
• Lead role in the detection, management and prevention of safeguarding issues
• Have an awareness of current professional and clinical developments within their area of practice and promote this to others
1. Leadership and management:
• Manage the day to day staffing arrangements and rotas, to ensure safe levels of practice
• Be in charge of a theatre list on a regular basis
• Ensure staffs adhere to Trust protocols of care, e.g. Infection Control
• Take continuing responsibility for the Unit/ Department in absence of Sister or floor coordinator
• Lead and manage their own clinical team within general clinical areas, and of the total team in the absence of the Theatre Sister, in line with Trust values
• Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with other professional groups, and staff generally within the Division and the Trust
• Contribute to the effective management of the area by ensuring correct levels of staff are in place to deliver and assist with the planning of off duty rotas
• Assist in the delivery of induction / orientation of new staff
• Act as a role model, ensuring staff work to Trust guidelines and PROUD values
• Supervise, under the direction of their manager, the work of qualified and unqualified staff and learners
• Provide clinical support and guidance to staff
• Act as a resource for clinical knowledge to staff
• Initiate action on complaints & incident management and responses, and assist in their investigation and resolution
• Participate in recruitment and selection, and develop effective selection and interviewing skills
• Undertake appraisals of staff, following training
• Chair team meetings as required
• Lead on specific projects, as indicated and agreed by manager
• Have a working knowledge of budget arrangements for area, focussing on cost effectiveness and quality, to ensure maximum use of resource. Close control of consumables and top up items, chasing the orders and leasing with Procurement appropriately
• Understand and manage local change with team members, including the embedding of new projects
PLEASE SEE JD/PS FOR FULL DUTIES OF THE ROLE
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024