Junior Sister / Charge Nurse | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,471 - £50,364 per annum Incl. HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW10 9NH |
| Company: | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6260856/289-SC-2140 |
Summary
Are you keen to have time to provide the best patient care. Our nurses in Private Patients care for an average of 3-5 patients each. This gives them plenty of time to provide excellent patient care.
Working on the Chelsea Wing gives you the best of both worlds, still employed with an NHS Foundation Trust with all the benefits of working in the NHS – pension, extra duty hours and NHS pay benefits but with extra time to care. We retain strong links with NHS nursing leadership and development.
The private patients unit is a dedicated adult inpatient facility consisting of 12 en-suite rooms, Chelsea Wing and also an Outpatients Unit, Westminster Wing.
Working in the Chelsea Wing you will get a wide range of experience. We provide care for patients from a wide range of specialities including gynaecology, general surgery, bariatric, orthopaedic, plastic surgery and finally specialist medicine and oncology. You will gain a vast clinical knowledge and understand a broad range of acute/complex medical and surgical conditions, and associated co-morbidities.
You will be able to motivate and engage others to ensure that the services we provide supports the Trust’s values, as well as having a pioneering approach that is not afraid to challenge convention and traditional ways of working.
The Sister/Charge Nurse is expected to support and lead staff within the Adult Emergency Department & Urgent Care Centre (UCC). This role carries the continuing responsibility for the management of the department, in the absence of a Senior Sister / Charge Nurse, as delegated by the Matrons, together with the provision of a 24 hour expert emergency nurse service. The post holder will undertake a Streaming and Navigation responsibility to ensure that patients accessing the UCC, after undertaking an initial assessment of their presenting complaint, are redirected to their appropriate streams for further medical or nurse practitioner assessment and treatment. The post holder will assist nursing staff with management requirements ensuring that a quality service is maintained. S/he is expected to participate in education throughout the unit and hospital and ensure quality is maintained. The Junior Sister / Charge Nurse will work with the support of the Matrons and Senior Nurse for Professional Development to ensure that high quality care provided is delivered in a safe environment.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor 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.
Clinical/ Professional Role:
1.1 Working autonomously whilst working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, assessing and managing a caseload of patients within the Emergency Department. Maintain effective communication with patients, carers and professionals to ensure seamless service delivery.
1.2 To act as a role model of expert clinical practice.
1.3 To participate in the initial assessment and streaming of all patients attending the department advising care needs in accordance to the clinical evidence available. Inform patients of expected time waits in accordance with Patient Charter Standards.
1.4 To ensure that nursing documentation is maintained to a high standard. Be a competent user of and participate in the on-going development of the Electronic Patient Record.
1.5 To initiate care and treatment for all patients on an individual basis assessing care needs, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care using researched based practice and agreed nursing models.
1.6 To work in close liaison with other members of the multi-disciplinary team communicating relevant information to families, ensuring the right to confidentiality of the patient and making sure that the information is realistic and up to date .
1.7 To participate in quality and audit initiatives within the department.
1.8 To use clinical expertise to manage clinical priorities appropriately.
1.9 Maintain a safe and acceptable environment for patients, visitors, students and staff, reporting and taking appropriate action on any hazards, incidents, faulty equipment or inadequate standards of cleaning. Coordinate the reporting of all such incidents for the area in liaison with the Matrons and Divisional Risk Manager.
1.10 To ensure that all patients who use the Emergency Department service do so in a timely manner ensuring equality, privacy and dignity needs are met.
1:11 To challenge practice so that the best and most appropriate treatment is given to the patient.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
This advert closes on Wednesday 15 May 2024