Job summary
At Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, we are on a mission to grow our Children Hospital and make it the best Neuro-musculoskeletal provider for Children and Young People.
Are you excited with service development and improvement? Are you ready to take your nursing leadership career to the next level with demanding yet rewarding responsibility? Are you ready to lead and champion a team where Children and young people's needs are at the heart of everything they do? Do you thrive in a busy yet effective clinical environment? Then it's an exciting time to join our dynamic and innovative team as Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
Our team include senior clinical and management staff, Neuro-musculoskeletal and orthopaedic Surgeons, Paediatricians, clinical educator and therapists. We share collective responsibility of delivering high quality, safe and effective care to Children, Young people and their families in a 27 bedded ward. Our specialities include spinal deformity, spinal injury rehabilitation, sarcoma, metabolic bone diseases, and upper and lower limb reconstruction.
While a passion for the care that Children and Young people receive is essential, we would welcome both paediatric and adult nurses applications, based on experience.
You will have opportunities to develop and further improve your leadership skills and knowledge through formal and informal education, networking, coaching and mentoring.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of successful candidate include:
- To provide clinical leadership and positive role model to their team; creating and maintaining positive work environment and thus facilitates positive staff experiences.
- To act as expert practitioner in the nursing care of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions to ensure provision of high- quality nursing care to children, young people and families.
- To ensure responsiveness to care and maintain positive experience for children, young people and families.
- To maintain safe, effective and efficient management of the department within allocated resources.
- To promote can do attitude for continual improvement of care through Quality improvement initiatives, research and evidence-based practice.
- To undertake delegated responsibility for the department in the absence of Matron and Associate Chief Nurse for Children and young people.
- To be familiar with, adopt and lead the team with the principles of the NHS Chief Nursing Officers vision for Compassion in Practice (NHS Commissioning Board Dec 2012).
About us
This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH's journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.
Our team consists of Multidisciplinary professionals including Clinical and management nurses, Neuro-musculoskeletal and orthopaedic Surgeons, Paediatricians, Operational and service management, other clinical specialists and therapists.
We share collective responsibility of delivering high quality, safe and effective care to Children, Young people and their families in a 27 bedded ward. Our specialities include surgery for spinal deformity, spinal injury rehabilitation, sarcoma, metabolic bone diseases, upper and lower limb reconstruction.
The successful candidate will be supported by the Matron for Children and young people and other senior nursing leaders. They will have access to internal and external opportunities to develop and further improve their leadership skills and knowledge through formal and informal education, networking, coaching and mentoring.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and Person specification, for more information on the Job responsibilities and Role requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and Person specification, for more information on the Job responsibilities and Role requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RSCN/RN Child registered with active NMC registration.
- Educated to first Degree or working toward it.
- Post registration training that is relevant to area of practice.
- Preparation for Mentorship course or equivalent.
- EPLS/HDU/Care of Critically ill Children or working towards it.
- Evidence of continued professional development plan.
Desirable
- Leadership course / development programme
- APLS
- Working towards PG dip or Masters Programme
Experience
Essential
- Significant clinical experience of the speciality
- Team leadership and supervision
- People and performance management
- Change management
- Clinical IT systems
- Implementing clinical guidelines, policies and procedures including safeguarding children processes
Desirable
- Working with PAS
- Children's high Dependency Nursing experience
- Audit and research
- Leading quality improvement project
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit.
- Awareness of Trust's and NHS initiatives
- Awareness of and application of relevant legislation, policies, procedures and professional issues.
- NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- Equality, diversity and inclusion practice
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Commitment to clinical supervision.
- Knowledge of the individuals' responsibility towards health and safety.
- Awareness of the structure and organisation of the wider Customer care and complaints handling.
- Awareness of research methods
Desirable
- NHS organisation and its service developments.
- Application of the NHS Plan in practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RSCN/RN Child registered with active NMC registration.
- Educated to first Degree or working toward it.
- Post registration training that is relevant to area of practice.
- Preparation for Mentorship course or equivalent.
- EPLS/HDU/Care of Critically ill Children or working towards it.
- Evidence of continued professional development plan.
Desirable
- Leadership course / development programme
- APLS
- Working towards PG dip or Masters Programme
Experience
Essential
- Significant clinical experience of the speciality
- Team leadership and supervision
- People and performance management
- Change management
- Clinical IT systems
- Implementing clinical guidelines, policies and procedures including safeguarding children processes
Desirable
- Working with PAS
- Children's high Dependency Nursing experience
- Audit and research
- Leading quality improvement project
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit.
- Awareness of Trust's and NHS initiatives
- Awareness of and application of relevant legislation, policies, procedures and professional issues.
- NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- Equality, diversity and inclusion practice
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Commitment to clinical supervision.
- Knowledge of the individuals' responsibility towards health and safety.
- Awareness of the structure and organisation of the wider Customer care and complaints handling.
- Awareness of research methods
Desirable
- NHS organisation and its service developments.
- Application of the NHS Plan in practice
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
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Address
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Brockley Hill
Stanmore
HA7 4LP
Employer's website
https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
