Job summary
A rare exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated experienced Band 7 Senior Sister/ Charge Nurse to join our fast paced dynamic busy Emergency Department at Pinderfields.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, highly motivated, dynamic and experienced Emergency Department Nurse to be part of our senior clinical nursing team. The role covers day and night shifts over a 7 day period.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for assisting in the leadership of the department team and the co-ordination of the delivery of patient care within the clinical environment. Through clinical leadership, knowledge of the Trusts core values and utilisation of effective management skills the post holder will ensure that the department team is informed, trained and developed to enable care to be safely and effectively delivered to patients.
This will be achieved through appropriate deployment and supervision of staff and practice/professional development.
This role will operate within the clinical governance framework of the organisation and will work in a collaborative approach with the multidisciplinary team in the interests of developing and promoting high quality patient care.
As a clinical leader all activities provide the opportunity for acting as a role model for staff.
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Leadership
The post holder will create, lead and maintain a nursing culture which is open to change, new ideas, concepts and innovation, whilst influencing Trust strategy and direction.
This will be achieved by:
- A commitment to patients centred values.
- Working with patients/families/carers and the multi-disciplinary team to provide therapeutic care that anticipates and responds to the needs of patients.
- Helping to developing a philosophy of care which involves the rights of patients, carers and staff.
- Creating a shared vision with the team, integrating and embracing risk taking, flexibility and change.
- Providing clear direction and leadership for nurses on a shift by shift basis with regard to legal, ethical and professional dimensions of care.
- Promoting peoples equality, diversity and rights.
- Promoting an organisational philosophy and structure philosophy which enables the appropriate delegation of authority to all levels and encourages staff to take up development opportunities within existing or new roles.
- Facilitating an environment in which critical appraisal of practice is fostered alongside innovative practice.
- Being responsible for taking an overview of the contribution that other disciplines make to their clinical area and taking action to ensure efficiency is achieved.
- Assisting in the development of annual departmental objectives, establishing service developments in line with Divisional and Trust plans.
- Maintaining awareness of national and regional initiatives and subsequent transfer of these into practice.
- Recruiting, developing and retaining a productive workforce.
- Instigating, managing and facilitating others to lead organisational change for the benefit of patients.
- Actively being involved in the delivery of any new strategies for patient care that impacts on their clinical environment and taking the lead in promoting the nursing contribution.
- Fostering and demonstrating creativity, energy and inspiration in leading the nursing team.
- Supervising and facilitating staff in guided structured reflection in complete situations, utilising a range of skills which may include clinical incident analysis and practice review processes.
QUALITY / CLINICAL GOVERNANCE
The post holder will be responsible for improving the patient experience and safe guarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care can flourish and be measured.
This will be achieved by:
- Overtly valuing patient centred care.
- Acting as the patients advocate when necessary.
- Creating a departmental culture which recognises and works in partnership with patients and carers involving them in all decisions.
- Striving for continuous improvements in the delivery of high quality patient focused care.
- Proactively lead in the 4hr Emergency Care Standard, taking responsibility for initiating improvement.
- Working and co-ordinating in a collaborative manner with other health care professionals and other relevant agencies.
- Respecting and promoting dignity, choice and autonomy of patients/families and carers.
- Undertaking skilled therapeutic nursing intervention/care provision.
- Exercising clinical judgement, often with complex facts and circulating why clinical decisions were made.
- Ensuring adequate and accurate patient documentation and records are maintained.
- Complying with the Clinical Governance agenda.
- Maximising the effectiveness of the team e.g. appropriate skill mix, duty rotas, training, mentorship (eRoster Policy).
- Organising and overseeing clinical workload so that the competencies of staff are matched to the needs of the patients.
- Overseeing complex clinical cases and using specialised skills and knowledge. Provide staff with guidance when necessary, taking responsibility for intervening in difficult situations.
- Using complaints positively and proactively to review and improve the quality of services.
- Developing efficient and effective reporting systems and encouraging staff to report any untoward incidents in a positive manner promoting confidentiality as appropriate.
- Ensuring relevant incidents are thoroughly investigated, appropriately actioned, feedback given and learning from these incidents transferred into practice.
- Proactively generate and review clinical risk assessments and action plan appropriately.
- Identifying gaps in knowledge and prioritising areas for action for themselves and the ward team.
- Assist in the maintenance of a department register of staff competencies.
- Establish and maintain a culture that continually updates practice by implementing valid research findings and facilitating appropriate research activity.
- Critiquing evidence based literature and helping others to develop this skill.
- Devising, updating and implementing protocols, guidelines and policies appropriate to the specialty which are evidence based.
- Developing systems which monitor the delivery of nursing care.
- Interpreting and evaluating information from diverse sources to enable informed decisions, to set standards for quality and appropriate care.
- Continually evaluating and auditing of practice by selecting and applying a broad range of appropriately valid and reliable methods.
- Participating in the Trusts accreditation process.
MANAGEMENT OF PEOPLE
The post holder will create, maintain and enhance a culture conducive to learning, and the personal and professional safety, growth and development of all staff.
This will be achieved by:
- Ensuring statutory training programmes are implemented and all training is monitored, recorded and evaluated as being effective in meeting the needs of the service.
- Working in partnership with educational providers to promote an environment conducive to learning and development for all staff including students.
- Monitoring and effectively managing sickness and absence.
- Identifying future staffing requirements to meet service changes and trends in the delivery of care.
- Contributing to a healthy working environment with particular regard to health and safety policies, flexible working, promotion of the need to balance work and home life.
- Creating, maintaining and enhancing effective working relationships.
- Recognising areas of interpersonal conflict and developing a proactive stance in resolving issues.
- Creating a culture conducive to learning, staff development and change.
- Leading and participating in the recruitment and selection of staff, having due regard for employment law and policies.
- Developing a systematic approach to performance management, ensuring annual appraisals of all staff, establishment of personal and professional objectives and goals, with regular monitoring and feedback.
- Working closely with the Lead Nurse instigating capability, disciplinary and grievance procedures as appropriate.
- Supporting and coaching staff in their professional development, recognising and utilising individual skills and knowledge, and providing opportunities for further development, to nurture future leaders.
- Ensuring the correct storage of information relating to personal details of staff, maintaining all aspects of confidentiality with regard to the appropriate use of information.
- Promoting, providing and participating in clinical supervision and other systems such as preceptorship, mentorship which allow staff to reflect and improve on their own practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Leadership
The post holder will create, lead and maintain a nursing culture which is open to change, new ideas, concepts and innovation, whilst influencing Trust strategy and direction.
This will be achieved by:
- A commitment to patients centred values.
- Working with patients/families/carers and the multi-disciplinary team to provide therapeutic care that anticipates and responds to the needs of patients.
- Helping to developing a philosophy of care which involves the rights of patients, carers and staff.
- Creating a shared vision with the team, integrating and embracing risk taking, flexibility and change.
- Providing clear direction and leadership for nurses on a shift by shift basis with regard to legal, ethical and professional dimensions of care.
- Promoting peoples equality, diversity and rights.
- Promoting an organisational philosophy and structure philosophy which enables the appropriate delegation of authority to all levels and encourages staff to take up development opportunities within existing or new roles.
- Facilitating an environment in which critical appraisal of practice is fostered alongside innovative practice.
- Being responsible for taking an overview of the contribution that other disciplines make to their clinical area and taking action to ensure efficiency is achieved.
- Assisting in the development of annual departmental objectives, establishing service developments in line with Divisional and Trust plans.
- Maintaining awareness of national and regional initiatives and subsequent transfer of these into practice.
- Recruiting, developing and retaining a productive workforce.
- Instigating, managing and facilitating others to lead organisational change for the benefit of patients.
- Actively being involved in the delivery of any new strategies for patient care that impacts on their clinical environment and taking the lead in promoting the nursing contribution.
- Fostering and demonstrating creativity, energy and inspiration in leading the nursing team.
- Supervising and facilitating staff in guided structured reflection in complete situations, utilising a range of skills which may include clinical incident analysis and practice review processes.
QUALITY / CLINICAL GOVERNANCE
The post holder will be responsible for improving the patient experience and safe guarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care can flourish and be measured.
This will be achieved by:
- Overtly valuing patient centred care.
- Acting as the patients advocate when necessary.
- Creating a departmental culture which recognises and works in partnership with patients and carers involving them in all decisions.
- Striving for continuous improvements in the delivery of high quality patient focused care.
- Proactively lead in the 4hr Emergency Care Standard, taking responsibility for initiating improvement.
- Working and co-ordinating in a collaborative manner with other health care professionals and other relevant agencies.
- Respecting and promoting dignity, choice and autonomy of patients/families and carers.
- Undertaking skilled therapeutic nursing intervention/care provision.
- Exercising clinical judgement, often with complex facts and circulating why clinical decisions were made.
- Ensuring adequate and accurate patient documentation and records are maintained.
- Complying with the Clinical Governance agenda.
- Maximising the effectiveness of the team e.g. appropriate skill mix, duty rotas, training, mentorship (eRoster Policy).
- Organising and overseeing clinical workload so that the competencies of staff are matched to the needs of the patients.
- Overseeing complex clinical cases and using specialised skills and knowledge. Provide staff with guidance when necessary, taking responsibility for intervening in difficult situations.
- Using complaints positively and proactively to review and improve the quality of services.
- Developing efficient and effective reporting systems and encouraging staff to report any untoward incidents in a positive manner promoting confidentiality as appropriate.
- Ensuring relevant incidents are thoroughly investigated, appropriately actioned, feedback given and learning from these incidents transferred into practice.
- Proactively generate and review clinical risk assessments and action plan appropriately.
- Identifying gaps in knowledge and prioritising areas for action for themselves and the ward team.
- Assist in the maintenance of a department register of staff competencies.
- Establish and maintain a culture that continually updates practice by implementing valid research findings and facilitating appropriate research activity.
- Critiquing evidence based literature and helping others to develop this skill.
- Devising, updating and implementing protocols, guidelines and policies appropriate to the specialty which are evidence based.
- Developing systems which monitor the delivery of nursing care.
- Interpreting and evaluating information from diverse sources to enable informed decisions, to set standards for quality and appropriate care.
- Continually evaluating and auditing of practice by selecting and applying a broad range of appropriately valid and reliable methods.
- Participating in the Trusts accreditation process.
MANAGEMENT OF PEOPLE
The post holder will create, maintain and enhance a culture conducive to learning, and the personal and professional safety, growth and development of all staff.
This will be achieved by:
- Ensuring statutory training programmes are implemented and all training is monitored, recorded and evaluated as being effective in meeting the needs of the service.
- Working in partnership with educational providers to promote an environment conducive to learning and development for all staff including students.
- Monitoring and effectively managing sickness and absence.
- Identifying future staffing requirements to meet service changes and trends in the delivery of care.
- Contributing to a healthy working environment with particular regard to health and safety policies, flexible working, promotion of the need to balance work and home life.
- Creating, maintaining and enhancing effective working relationships.
- Recognising areas of interpersonal conflict and developing a proactive stance in resolving issues.
- Creating a culture conducive to learning, staff development and change.
- Leading and participating in the recruitment and selection of staff, having due regard for employment law and policies.
- Developing a systematic approach to performance management, ensuring annual appraisals of all staff, establishment of personal and professional objectives and goals, with regular monitoring and feedback.
- Working closely with the Lead Nurse instigating capability, disciplinary and grievance procedures as appropriate.
- Supporting and coaching staff in their professional development, recognising and utilising individual skills and knowledge, and providing opportunities for further development, to nurture future leaders.
- Ensuring the correct storage of information relating to personal details of staff, maintaining all aspects of confidentiality with regard to the appropriate use of information.
- Promoting, providing and participating in clinical supervision and other systems such as preceptorship, mentorship which allow staff to reflect and improve on their own practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Please click apply now to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application).
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.
