Senior Sister/Charge Nurse | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 09 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 July 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE1 5WW |
| Company: | University Hospitals of Leicester |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7254957/358-7254957-WC |
Summary
An opportunity has come up to join our Band 7 team on our Cardiac Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. We need an experienced, highly motivated individual who can work with our team to deliver high quality patient care. This is an amazing opportunity develop into a new role and will be vital to helping to achieve your future goals. The role of the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse is pivotal in providing leadership and support to our nurses, while ensuring the department is managed smoothly and this opportunity will allow you to gain new skills in leadership and management.
We are a busy regional Cardiac PICU within our East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre providing critical care for children with congenital heart conditions and who also may require extra corporeal heart and lung support (ECMO). We serve the East Midlands and network hospitals within our region. Cardiac PICU also has a sister unit within the LRI, the Children's Intensive Care Unit. This unit care for critically ill children with a wide range of conditions. The post holder will be required to work across the 2 units working towards collaborative working as the 2 units will merge as part of the Children’s Hospital reconfiguration and the development of a standalone Children’s Hospital. It is an exciting time as we are an expanding service with a new and emerging network developing and a new Children’s Hospital being planned. Now is the time to join our team and become part of our amazing transformation!
The post holder will be accountable and responsible for cPICU, visible, accessible and responsive to the needs of service users, patients, carers and the public.
The post holder will be an expert clinical practitioner in the field, be required to work clinical shifts as well as providing managerial cover, and be an enthusiastic integral member of our well established and committed team, with over 50 members of nursing staff, providing and supervising the delivery of excellent quality care.
Wider responsibilities include the provision of a supportive learning environment for continuing education; reporting to the Matron and supporting the wider organisation; reduction of risk and audit; managing resources and information; and co-ordinating activity and flow and the provision of care within the Paediatric Intensive Care Service at UHL.
You should be positive and adaptable to a changing environment that prides itself on quality and efficiency. You will be given the opportunity to learn and develop new leadership and management skills and act as a role model for best practice to junior staff. This role will also allow for further development opportunities within our team. A calm, diplomatic and caring approach is necessary and you must have the ability to deal with the varied and challenging demands. You must have the ability to multi-task and prioritise under pressure, work within a large multi-disciplinary team and ensure the trust values are incorporated in to practice
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
KEY RESULT AREAS
Leadership
• To be a visible, accessible and assertive figure to whom patients, relatives and staff can turn for assistance, advice and support.
• In the absence of the Matron lead the unit team and build successful links between nursing and other professions to support and promote effective multi-disciplinary team working.
• To lead and support the unit team through a process of change, demonstrating tenacity, drive, professional integrity, balance and perspective.
• To develop the role of other team members, supporting them in gaining the appropriate competencies to achieve the required standards of care.
• To motivate all team members and lead innovation and expertise in clinical practice by example.
• Through effective communication, disseminate information across the healthcare teams.
• To resolve conflict and ensure feedback and planning for the future occurs.
Care Delivery
• To practice clinically at an expert level to ensure that all patients within the unit have their needs assessed and that programmes of care are developed to meet those needs and are delivered in accordance with the unit philosophy.
• To act as the lead specialist for the area on a shift with responsibility for interpreting clinical information and having freedom to act while discussing findings and plans of care with other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Advise other members of the multidisciplinary team on clinical issues, determining how the clinical aspects of the care is delivered by others on the shift (within care protocols)
• Act as a resource and advisor, responsible for the allocation of patients to staff and the co-ordination of care delivery to the critically ill patients.
• Maintain efficient and effective communication with the Matron on issues relating to the unit and patient care and make autonomous decisions in their absence.
• Monitor the quality of patient care and participate in the regular evaluation of patient satisfaction. Identify areas of poor performance, developing and implementing strategies to improve performance.
• Build working relationships with other departments, referring hospitals and wards. Facilitate communication regarding shared care and meeting the needs of patients and carers.
• Undertakes expanded clinical responsibilities that utilise advanced knowledge and skills, and work autonomously within the Scope of Professional Practice in the Critical Care Unit, following education and/or update of skills, in relation to extended clinical tasks/roles required for this post.
• Facilitate change, act as a role model and identify and lead the implementation of appropriate new practices.
• To proactively identify opportunities to expand roles, working in conjunction with Professional Development Nurses to devise protocols accordingly.
• Together with the Matron and Head of Nursing develop auditable standards of care, supporting the national benchmarking scheme.
• To act at all times with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct, rules and code of practice.
(Please refer to the job description/person specification for further details on the role)
This advert closes on Monday 23 Jun 2025