Band 6 Sister/ Charge Nurse-Acute Medical Unit

Job summary

• Working alongside the existing AMU team to assist in the enhancement and development of AMU services. Focusing on delivering high quality care in a fast paced ever changing environment.
• To support the senior sisters/ charge nurses and matron to ensure the provision of excellent care with compassion for all patients, relatives and visitors who are cared for within our unit.
• You will undertake a variety of roles including nurse in charge of the unit, navigating the patients from the emergency department, working in SDEC clinic, being nurse in charge of an area and delivering high standard of care to all patients and relatives.
• Provide strong leadership and direction for the team, monitoring and maintaining standards of care and professional practice to support the running of the unit.
• Act as a professional role model and provide advice and support for other staff and students and support them in reaching their potential.
• Plan, manage, direct and evaluate the nursing care for a defined caseload of patients.
• Communicate effectively to all patients, relatives, visitors, colleagues and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Ensure that the trust policies and directives are adhered to at ward level.
• Partake in audits and service improvement to improve clinical practice and ensure standards are met.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

Your duties will include and are not limited to

1. The post holder will be professionally accountable for the maintenance of standards and professional practice as set by the NMC Code of Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour and relevant professional guidelines,
2. They will regularly take charge of the practice setting or defined area of the practice setting / group of patients and take responsibility for ensuring the coordination and direct provision of high standard of holistic, patient centred care by assessing nursing care and health education needs, and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for each patient.
3. To be designated to act as a deputy to the person holding continuing responsibility for the organisation and management of the practice setting.
4. To demonstrate and facilitate others to develop the necessary skills and experience in ward/department management and provide leadership in the absence of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
5. Use a range of techniques to set and monitor standards of clinical practice, audit, research and teaching to continually improve standards of care and patient experience.
6. To support the development and implementation of audit, quality and risk management initiatives.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their ‘whole self’ to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered adult nurse on the NMC register
• Mentoring qualification

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post registration experience working in complex health care setting / acute NHS care setting supervising /mentoring junior staff (Minimum 2 years’ experience).
• Evidence of professional/ clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical or managerial training and CPD.
• Professional portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration.
• Relevant and recent clinical experience with the speciality /acute care setting.
• Experience of mentoring undergraduate students.
• Evidence of ability to lead / coordinate shift/ area of department

Experience of learning from incidents / complaints and supporting change in practice.

• Demonstrate an ability, experience, passion in the following:
• leadership, team building, managing
• resources, time management, role
• modelling, change management /
• clinical developments, clinical
• governance, audit and research,
• workforce planning / management,
• NHS policy and political awareness.
• Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

 

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