Sister / Charge Nurse inBristol inBristol PUBLISHED TUE 14 JAN 2025

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Job Overview

North Bristol NHS Trust has exciting opportunities for Band 6 nurses within its outstanding Emergency Department. Southmead ED sees between 280-300 patients per day. We are a Regional Trauma Centre and offer our nurses a CQC commended education programme and development opportunities including an ACP training programme.

Band 6 opportunities for highly skilled ED nurses with at least 2 years ED experience who are highly motivated and clinically brilliant.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will act as shift leader – coordinating the Emergency Department
• The post holder will work within and lead a clinical team
• The post holder will take personal; responsibility and accountability for ensuring that Trust and local policies and procedures are known and followed and will ensure duties are carried out in accordance with the advisory guidelines and practice set out in the NMC code of Professional conduct
• The post holder will be responsible for assessment, planning, provision, maintenance and evaluation of patient care across the Emergency Department, Clinical Decisions Unit and Minor Injuries Unit (referred to as the Department throughout tis document)
• The post holder will take responsibility for the supervision and guidance of other staff including newly qualified nurses, healthcare assistants and students
• The post holder will actively contribute to the provision of a good learning environment by taking on the role of mentor/assessor for learners e.g. Newly qualified nurses, student nurses and support worker roles.
  
  

Working for our organisation

We can offer a development pathway to further seniority and many training opportunities such as the ENP course, non medical prescribing and have recently appointed trainee ACPs.

We have an expanding consultant body and huge support from managerial staff, are well led and have effective staff well-being program making this an environment where people can flourish. The CQC rated the care we provide as outstanding .

Patient Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Take personal responsibility for the nursing care of patients in the clinical setting.
• Ensure that care needs are assessed and programmes of care are developed, implemented and evaluated and documented contemporaneously for a caseload of patients in a clinical area.
• Ensure changes, advice, day-to-day activity and tests are documented contemporaneously, giving a clear profile of care received during a patients’ admission/visit to the care setting.
• Plan, allocate, supervise and evaluate working practices of the team on a day-to-day basis.
• Provide professional advice and support to team members so that they are able to assume responsibility to carry out delegated duties.
• Facilitate and maintain clinical competence/skills of self and others in day-to-day working practices.
• Assist the senior nurses to ensure clinical competence/skills of members of the nursing team meet the requirements of Trust Policies and Procedures, and are measurable against benchmarking standards.
• Undertake additional nursing tasks, e.g. IV drugs, cannulation, male catheterisation defibrillation, etc., relevant to clinical area.
• Facilitate the discharge planning process, evaluate as necessary according to patients and families changing needs. Ensure all members of the multi-disciplinary team are aware as changes occur.
• Compliance with all infection control policies and procedures will form an integral part of the practice of all staff involved in direct patient care. The staff member will be responsible for locating the infection control manual in the clinical areas and on the intranet. Staff must keep themselves up to date with new polices distributed with subsequent implementation in practice.
• Clinical staff will seek support and advice from infection control in all instances where cross infection is likely to have occurred or when managing situation involving patients with infections where guidance provided in the policies is not applicable.
• All staff will contact occupational health if they are suffering from any form of infection which may put patents and other staff at risk’
  
  

Policy And Service Development

• Contribute to the development of speciality specific clinical protocols and guidelines.
  
  

Supervisory And Management Responsibilities

• Assist senior nurses and support cascade of information to ward team in a timely manner.
• Regularly takes charge and leads a team of staff for a shift.
• Assist senior nurses in compliance with all Health and Safety requirements relating to the clinical area.
• Assist senior nurses in planning appropriate duty rosters against agreed skill mix levels.
• Be responsible for the supervision and checking of specialist equipment on a shift-to-shift basis.
• Investigate clinical incidents/complaints, report and take any action required to the clinical Matron.
• Support senior nurses to performance manage within the Trust Policies and Guidelines, e.g. sickness monitoring, capability.
• Complete staff records as req