Junior Sister/Charge Nurse
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £42,471.00 to £50,364.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £42471.00 - £50364.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, E1 1FR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9259-24-1562 |
Summary
Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates care for patients with complexneeds and make changes as necessary. Identifies deteriorating patients and takes appropriate action to manage thesituation, liaison with interdisciplinary team as appropriate. Ensures documentation is accurate and up to date, utilising the electronichealth record.Senior Charge NurseBand 7 (4 wte)Charge NurseBand 6 (14 wte)Staff NurseBand 5 (38 wte)Nursing AssistantBand 2 (22 wte)5 Have the ability to lead and demonstrate an enquiring approach to patientcare. Demonstrate clear knowledge of issues affecting medical pateints. Demonstrate clear knowledge of the nursing care needed by medical patients. Develop skills in accordance with the expanded role relevant to the postholders clinical area such as cannulation and phlebotomy and patient healthpromotion/education. Educates patients and relatives about how to adopt healthy lifestyles, andlook after their own health and wellbeing. Identifies and helps patients, relatives and staff to reduce any risks associatedwith health and wellbeing. Ensures patients views are taken into account in the decision makingprocess. Ability to lead and participates in collaborative decision making within theinter-disciplinary team. Participates in meeting the health education and promotes the needs ofpatients and carers. Communication is a fundamental process to ensure continuity and highstandards of care. It includes sharing ideas, information and feedback inorder to empower patients and members of the interdisciplinary team. Skilled in communicating with a range of people on a daily basis some of whomay have communication barriers. A key responsibility will be to utilise a variety of strategies to communicateeffectively with patients and those involved in their care. The post holder must also communicate with other staff within the Trust, withexternal organisations and with the general public. Keeps accurate and complete records of activities and communicationsconsistent with legislation, policies and procedures.6 The post holder must at all time work in accordance with the NMC Code ofProfessional Conduct (2015). Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of research, audit and qualityinitiatives and how this influence nursing practice. Support the ward manager with performance management of key indicatorssuch as health and safety, ward accreditation. Support the ward manager in investigating and responding to accidents,complaints, untoward incident and other significant events. Demonstrates knowledge and skills related to evidence based practice. Monitors the quality of own works and alerts others to quality issues. The post holder must at all times carry out duties and responsibilities withregard to the Trusts Equal Opportunity policy. Identifies and takes action when own or others behaviour underminesequality and diversity. Take account of own behaviour and its effect on others