Sister / Charge Nurse
| Posting date: | 17 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 June 2025 |
| Location: | Wakefield, WF1 4DG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9377-25-0160 |
Summary
Key requirements Assess, prioritise, plan, implement and evaluate individualised patient care. Supervise others in the aforementioned functions. Ensure safe, timely discharge or transfer, of patient, to wards, other hospitals or care settings. Perform and ensure others perform patient observations such as blood pressure, pulse, respirations, oxygen saturations, early warning score, pain score, pressure score, peak expiratory flow, temperatures, and electrocardiographs. Provide follow up advice, treatment and care. Complete Investigations such as blood glucose measurement, ward test urine, Blood gas and blood taking Initiate and participate in Intermediate Life Support and cardiac arrest management and care for Resus patients. Maintain clear, accurate, legible and timely written documentation in patient’s notes providing a record of care delivered. Remind other members of the team to do likewise. Administer intra venous, intra muscular, subcutaneous injections, and rectal and oral medication. Provide direct patient care. Attending to patients’ hygiene needs such as giving and removing bedpans and urinals. Washing incontinent, unclean and infested patients as required, providing pressure area care. Give direction, support and advice to junior staff. Accept accountability and responsibility for own safe clinical practice. Comply with the NMC Code of Practice and subsequent published guidelines for practice. Act as the patient’s advocate when necessary. Attend the department and assume nurse leadership (in absence of Matron and Senior Sister) in the event of a major incident being declared