Senior Sister/Charge Nurse | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2024 |
| Location: | 317 01 Freeman Hospital, NE7 7DN |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6295580/317-2024-21-24-DR |
Summary
We are excited to be able to offer a Band 7 opportunity within our Senior Nursing Team on our renowned Cardiothoracic Paediatric Critical Care Unit at the Freeman Hospital.
The successful candidate will be an experienced children’s nurse providing leadership to the nursing team and able to prove a high level of achievement, motivation, and enthusiasm in their current role, with extensive experience in a children’s critical care unit that provides cardiothoracic services.
They will be keen to progress demonstrating a keen understanding of the unique challenges of a PICU whilst remaining professional, resilient, optimistic, and resourceful.
• Interview date: 22nd June 2024
• 28 hours 48 minutes /week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
• Maintain clinical excellence in cardiothoracic children's critical care
• Work with all our MDT members to ensure our high standards of care are maintained and promote harm free care and the best outcomes for patients
• Act as a positive role model
• Motivate and ensure all team members are supported to work seamlessly, flexibly and effectively
• Use expert clinical judgement to uphold professional standards and ensure delivery of a high-quality responsive service
• Remain calm under pressure when dealing with multiple competing priorities
• Be proactive in continuously evolving and improving our service
• Act as a compassionate advocate for our families working in partnership to support their journey
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, we have around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
• The Senior Sister / Charge Nurse has 24 hour accountability, including line managing, for their ward / department. They must deliver quality nursing care by ensuring appropriate systems and processes are in place to ensure the continuity of safe and effective care at all times.
• Deputises for Matron / Deputy Matron as required / appropriate.
The Freeman Hospital in Newcastle is the centre for children’s cardiac services.
We are proud of our service and our friendly team support our local children in the North East and Cumbria undergoing surgery and treatment for congenital heart conditions and are commissioned to provide ECMO. We host National supra specialist programmes of care and are only one of two centres in the country undertaking Cardio- pulmonary transplantation and bridge to transplant services for children and young people through Ventricular Assist Device technologies.
Our facilities at Freeman Hospital include a PICU and an 18 bedded ward incorporating a 6 bedded HDU and children's cardiac clinic.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Jun 2024
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