Job summary
Emergency Department Sister/Charge Nurse
The adult Emergency Department are looking to recruit a band 7 senior nurse.
The Bristol Royal Infirmary Adult Emergency department is a thriving busy department, in the heart of the city of Bristol.
Do you have experience working in emergency medicine? Are you an expert in assessment, a quick thinking problem solver who has strong leadership qualities?
Are you willing to learn and to teach others? Then this is the job for you.
Main duties of the job
- Ensuring safety checks are completed
- Maintaining standards through audits
- Ensuring safe staffing of the emergency department
- Clinically assessing to help identify sick and deteriorating patients
- ensuring sepsis targets are met
- Providing clinical support to staff on duty
- Maintaining oversight of all areas of the emergency department
- Ensure clear communication within the department and externally with patient flow
- Support with clinical emergencies
- Ensure patients have plans and facilitate flow
About us
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description.
Person Specification
Aptitudes
Essential
- Supportive
- Respectful
- Innovative
- Collaborative
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- RGN. 1st Level qualification
- Current NMC Registration
- Evidence of formal ongoing professional development
- Accredited Advance Life Support and Trauma Nursing Course
Desirable
- Teaching Qualification or equivalent experience
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Resilience
- Demonstrates ability to take overall responsibility and accountability
- Enthusiastic and motivated
- Flexible
- Good communication
- Assertiveness
- Dynamic
- Pro-active
- Personal insight and awareness
- Being a good team player
- Initiative
- Being fair
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in ED
- Proven leadership and management experience in an Emergency Department
- Proven evidence of educational support to others
- Demonstrated ability to support colleagues
- Experience or sound knowledge of human resource management e.g. appraisal, sickness etc.
- Clinical expert in defined area of work---- Emergency Care
- Change management and ability to present ideas effectively
- Familiar with current local and national issues
- Organisational/ prioritising
Desirable
- Undertaken nursing research
- Experience and knowledge of advanced practice/protocols
Person Specification
Aptitudes
Essential
- Supportive
- Respectful
- Innovative
- Collaborative
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- RGN. 1st Level qualification
- Current NMC Registration
- Evidence of formal ongoing professional development
- Accredited Advance Life Support and Trauma Nursing Course
Desirable
- Teaching Qualification or equivalent experience
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Resilience
- Demonstrates ability to take overall responsibility and accountability
- Enthusiastic and motivated
- Flexible
- Good communication
- Assertiveness
- Dynamic
- Pro-active
- Personal insight and awareness
- Being a good team player
- Initiative
- Being fair
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in ED
- Proven leadership and management experience in an Emergency Department
- Proven evidence of educational support to others
- Demonstrated ability to support colleagues
- Experience or sound knowledge of human resource management e.g. appraisal, sickness etc.
- Clinical expert in defined area of work---- Emergency Care
- Change management and ability to present ideas effectively
- Familiar with current local and national issues
- Organisational/ prioritising
Desirable
- Undertaken nursing research
- Experience and knowledge of advanced practice/protocols
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)
Address
Bristol Royal Infirmary
Upper Maudlin St.
Bristol
BS2 8HW
Employer's website
https://www.uhbw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
