Senior Sister/Charge Nurse - Ward F5

Job description

Job responsibilities

see Job description attached.

Nursing high standards of nursing care providing assurance of ongoing improvement.

Work in collaboration with the other wards in the CSU ensuring positive patient experience.

Maintain high levels of compliance with staff training and education engaging with out practice development team.

Investigation of complaints and incidents ensuring learning identified is shared across the CSU

Management of clinical services in the unit. Ensuring safe staffing levels, engaging in recruitment as required.

Sickness and performance management of employees based on the unit.

Management of Budget ensuring service is managed witching the allocated budget allocated

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Understands how acute medicine patient flow works

Experience

Essential

• Acute medical nursing experience at Band 6
• Regularly in charge of a ward
• Delivered improvement in patient care
• Worked within a multidisciplinary team

Skills

Essential

• Ability to prioritise and problem solve
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• BLS trained
• Ability to make decisions and escalate appropriately
• BLS trained
• Ability to make decisions and escalate appropriately
• Ability to challenge practice and support staff
• Knowledge and skills in Elderly and Intermediate Care

Desirable

• Additional clinical skills e.g. cannulation, phlebotomy, intravenous drugs

Qualifications

Essential

• RGN - adult nursing
• Teaching and Assessing in practice qualification (FLIP/ENB 6590 /998)

Desirable

• Diploma/Degree in Nursing or equivalent experience/ working towards

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 (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

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Luke's Hospital

Bradford

BD9 6RJ

Employer's website

https://www.bradfordhospitals.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)