Critical Care - Senior Sister/Charge Nurse

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust•Wednesfield, WV

About The Position

Are you an inspirational and highly driven experienced critical care nurse who has exceptional leadership and clinical skills and wants to make a difference to our staff and patients? Do you have a keen interest and passion for critical care, if so, this job could be for you! An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, skilled Band 7 nurse in the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, within the integrated critical care unit. The post holder will work alongside a fully established team of band 7 leaders within the critical care unit. The individual will be committed to sustaining and improving our patients and families experience, have excellent clinical skills and be able to act as a professional role model. Advert Our unit has 28 flexible beds providing care for both general and cardiothoracic patients. You must possess and be able to demonstrate excellent leadership and management skills. You will be a compassionate and caring nurse who will be able to work closely with the Matron to deliver outstanding care for the patients in Wolverhampton & its surrounding areas. The successful candidate must be an innovative, hardworking and enthusiastic adult nurse with a broad range of skills and experiences. They will have proven leadership experience within general and cardio-thoracic intensive care services. They will provide 24 hr continuing responsibility for the effective and efficient management of the integrated critical care unit, providing continuous management of nursing team members. Working for our organisation The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients. We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020. The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Requirements

be committed to sustaining and improving our patients and families experience
have excellent clinical skills
be able to act as a professional role model
possess and be able to demonstrate excellent leadership and management skills
be a compassionate and caring nurse
be able to work closely with the Matron to deliver outstanding care for the patients in Wolverhampton & its surrounding areas
be an innovative, hardworking and enthusiastic adult nurse with a broad range of skills and experiences
have proven leadership experience within general and cardio-thoracic intensive care services

Responsibilities

To be professionally accountable and maintain the standards of professional practice as set by the appropriate regulatory body applicable to your profession or role.
In a supervisory role utilise supervision of clinical practice, clinical audit, research, and teaching, to set, monitor and improve standards of care in addition to efficient and effective use of resources.
Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice
Enhancing the patient’s experience
Managing and developing the performance of the team
Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives
Deputising for Matron
As the visible designated clinical nurse leader set standards of care and professionalism and promote teamwork within a multi-professional environment, demonstrating critical analysis and decision-making skills, leading the delivery of a clinically excellent service, influencing and facilitating change within the ward/department and where appropriate the organisation.
Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence-based practice, setting, implementing and monitoring evidence based standards of care, policies, procedures and protocols.
Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement through the use of research, audit, patient feedback and reflection on practice by self and other members of the team.
Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management and critical incident reporting and root cause analysis.
Ensure a high standard of record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health and Care Professions Council, national legislation and local standards.
Facilitate effective communication with the multi-professional team.
Assess the risks involved in the care of patients and ensure utilisation of practices and protocols to minimise those risks, including safe use of medical devices.
To monitor the standards of care and take appropriate actions when standards fall below expected levels.
Report incidents and near misses promptly and appropriately and take effective action to minimise future risk.
Within sphere of care ensure effective and efficient patient journeys by planning, co-ordinating and monitoring the episodes of care including the smooth transition to other settings, promoting effective discharge and communication with interdisciplinary and interagency teams as required.
Co-ordinate nursing/midwifery interventions, influence clinical decisions and monitor the quality of patient care provided through using expert clinical knowledge relevant to own field of practice, underpinned by theory and experience.
Within a multidisciplinary team environment, develop a culture of person-centred care.
Be highly visible within the ward/department, communicating regularly with patients, relatives and/or carers; promoting a caring environment where equality and diversity issues are respected and patients are enabled to be partners in their care.
Identify opportunities to develop care and services by ensuring that there are effective systems in place to ascertain patient and carer experience/feedback and ensure complaints are managed in line with organisational policy, including the dissemination of learning points.
Ensure that everyone within sphere of care is treated with dignity and humanity, understanding individual needs, showing compassion and sensitivity, and provide care in a way that respects all people equally.
Critically appraise and synthesise the outcomes of relevant research, evaluations and audits and apply the information when seeking to improve practice.
Act as a positive role model, creating a supportive ethos to empower staff to contribute to the delivery of excellent person centred care.
Lead by example, develop self and other staff, and influence the way care is given in a manner that is open and responds to individual needs.
Ensure nurses and nursing staff take responsibility for the care they provide and answer for their own judgments and actions and carry out those actions in a way that is agreed with their patients, and the families and carers of their patients, and in a way that meets the requirements of organisational policies and procedures, their professional bodies and the law .
Lead the appraisal process ensuring that personal development plans are consistent with the team’s, ward’s and organisation’s objectives, succession planning, and workforce development and in support of professional revalidation.
Take all reasonable care of health and safety at work for self, team and others and to co-operate with employers to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements.
Support the learning and development of all staff.
Create a learning environment that ensures effective learning opportunities for staff and students including appropriate orientation and induction programmes, a range of clinical support strategies (mentoring, coaching, clinical supervision, action learning and peer review). Plan, monitor and evaluate ongoing mandatory training and relevant education and development opportunities for the team.
Manage the practice setting, hold a delegated budget and demonstrate effective use of resources and workforce planning by monitoring workload and, through efficient rostering, maintain appropriate staffing levels and skill mix taking account of role and competence of staff when delegating work.
Manage the nursing/midwifery team, ensuring compliance by self and others with professional standards, legislation, national and organisational policies.
Lead the recruitment and selection process, attendance management, and performance management ensuring grievance and disciplinary matters within own practice setting are identified, actioned and reported to the appropriate person.
Lead the team utilising the appropriate Trust policies, procedures or guidelines
Network with peers across professional groups promoting the exchange of knowledge, skills and resources.
To act up in the absence of the Matron
Attend professional forums and disseminate information
Work in partnership with a range of clinicians and managers in the planning or development of own service promoting the involvement of patients/public.
Take a proactive approach to the redesign of clinical services, linked to organisational priorities and in support of improved outcomes
Support the development and implementation of the Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Strategy for the organisation
Within clinical area ensure knowledge of the organisations quality and safety agenda.
Seek opportunities for personal and team development supporting the research agenda of the organisation
Develop and maintain a working knowledge of local, national and professional strategy and policy, ensuring that organisational goals are reflected in personal objectives and in ward/department development plans.
Demonstrate the ability to contribute to policy and strategy development at a departmental and organisational level and, where appropriate, national level.
Demonstrate by self and through team compliance to the pledges of the NHS Constitution 2012