Band 6 Junior Sister/ Charge Nurse inFrimley inFrimley PUBLISHED 14 SEP 2024

Job Overview


An opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team as we move into our newly built ward.

You will need to work closely with Consultants , Junior Doctors and other multidisciplinary teams on the ward, as part of the provision of care services to patients.

Main duties of the job

As Sister/Charge Nurse, you will be working closely with the Senior Sister and Matron, playing an integral role in driving changes with a range of comprehensive orientation and support.

We can offer you a range of management and leadership development opportunities to support you in this role.

Essential skills key to this role are implementing and maintaining high clinical standards whilst caring for patients, enhancing staff personal development, providing guidance, support and expertise to clinical staff.

Working for our organisation

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.


Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities


For full details of the key responsibilities required for this role, please see the attached job description and person specification.


Some Of The Main Responsibilities Will Be

• Responsible for the assessment of patient care needs the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision.
• To participate and assist in systematic monitoring and evaluation of nursing practice.
• To participate and assist in setting standards of patient care based on sound evidence-based findings, implementing these into practice.
• To ensure that the nursing practices of the area comply with the Trust’s Nursing policies and procedures and maintain high standards of nursing practice.
• To always comply with the NMC Code of Conduct (2002).
• To communicate effectively and liaise with all health care staff as appropriate.
• To encourage and maintain good relationships with Medical Staff and other members of the Primary care & Social Services teams to provide the best care.
• To support the implementation and maintenance of Team Nursing within the clinical area, taking responsibility for a small caseload of patients. Within this system of case management, co-ordinate and monitor the progress of patients along their critical pathway, reporting any variance from the pathway. Take named responsibility for co-ordinating individual patient’s discharge.
• To participate in Quality Assurance initiatives within the unit.
  
  

Person specification


Qualifications


Essential criteria

• RGN - Current first or second level NMC Registration
• Evidence of continuing education & professional development
• ENB 998/City and Guilds 730 or equivalent
• Specialty qualification
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Degree in Nursing or other relevant field or can demonstrate experience of working to this level.
• Management course or qualification
• Leadership course, module, or qualification
  
  

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Worked in a UK acute trust as a qualified nurse or student nurse in the last 2 years
  
  

Desirable criteria

• evidence of further study
  
  

Skills


Essential criteria

• Proven teaching and assessing skills.
• Proven oral and written communication skills.
• Able to manage difficult situations effectively and to work under pressure.
• Able to prioritise and meet deadlines, working in an organised way with excellent time management skills
• Effective negotiation skills
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .

Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .

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