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Maintain close links with the unit manager ensuring an understanding of budgets, contracts and marketing of services.
Job OverviewWe have an exciting opportunity for a band 6 sister / charge nurse in our angiography unit cares for cardiac patients. undertaking cardiac intervention, EP and PPCI service
In this environment you will need to have a calm but assertive manner and be able to manage a challenging workload. We looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic qualified nurse with strong interpersonal skills to join our team.
You will work with the ward manager ensuring the team delivers high standards of patient care. You will also work with the practice development sister in the training and development of staff and be involved in raising the profile of the speciality.
Evidence of caring for the cardiac patient together with appropriate knowledge and skills acquired in an acute cardiac environment, evidence of recent professional development and use of evidence based practice, are all essential for the post.
A Mentorship Preparation Certificate (e.g. ENB998 or equivalent) and applied experience of teaching, supervising, mentoring and assessing student nurses are also essential.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating safe and high quality patient care.
To manage patients flow throw cardiology.
To provide support to the Unit Manager and deputise when required.
To develop and manage a team of nurses.
To participate in unit development by implementing innovations.
To participate in clinical audits to ensure high standard service is delivered.
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 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.
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
KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To be responsible for ensuring high standards of patient care while adhering to trust policies and guidelines.
- To ensure nursing practice is research based and be aware of current developments guaranteeing regular updating of current policies and guidelines.
- Maintain close links with the unit manager ensuring an understanding of budgets, contracts and marketing of services. Ensure staff are aware of budgetary issues pertinent to their role.
- Manage shift rotas in accordance with ward policy while making sure staffing levels and skill mix is adequate.
- Deputise for the unit manager and perform other duties, as requested by the unit manager, commensurate with grade as well as representing the ward at meetings and committees as required.
- Work closely with the unit manager regarding core services, ward issues and opimising resources.
- Participate in clinical audits to ensure high standard service is delivered.
- To ensure good working relationships are maintained within the team and ward.
- Ensure an environment conducive to learning is provided for both trained and untrained staff
- Identify staff training/development needs through the staff appraisal system.
- Support staff in their orientation, preceptorship and rotation programmes as appropriate.
- Participate in recruitment and selection process.
- To deal with complaints as appropriate and keep the unit manager informed, making sure relevant action is taken to prevent recurrence
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current NMC registration
- Cardiology Course or acute care course
- Mentorship Course
- Cardiology or acute care experience
- ALS provider
- Management or leadership course
- Budgetary skills
Essential criteria
- Teaching skills
- Awareness of current professional nursing issues
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience at Band 5 in Cardiology taking charge of unit
- Substantial experience of teaching and supervising of junior staff
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 staf
Job Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a band 6 sister / charge nurse in our angiography unit cares for cardiac patients. undertaking cardiac intervention, EP and PPCI service
In this environment you will need to have a calm but assertive manner and be able to manage a challenging workload. We looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic qualified nurse with strong interpersonal skills to join our team.
You will work with the ward manager ensuring the team delivers high standards of patient care. You will also work with the practice development sister in the training and development of staff and be involved in raising the profile of the speciality.
Evidence of caring for the cardiac patient together with appropriate knowledge and skills acquired in an acute cardiac environment, evidence of recent professional development and use of evidence based practice, are all essential for the post.
A Mentorship Preparation Certificate (e.g. ENB998 or equivalent) and applied experience of teaching, supervising, mentoring and assessing student nurses are also essential.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating safe and high quality patient care.
To manage patients flow throw cardiology.
To provide support to the Unit Manager and deputise when required.
To develop and manage a team of nurses.
To participate in unit development by implementing innovations.
To participate in clinical audits to ensure high standard service is delivered.
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 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.
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
KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Experience
Essential criteria
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 staf
We have an exciting opportunity for a band 6 sister / charge nurse in our angiography unit cares for cardiac patients. undertaking cardiac intervention, EP and PPCI service
In this environment you will need to have a calm but assertive manner and be able to manage a challenging workload. We looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic qualified nurse with strong interpersonal skills to join our team.
You will work with the ward manager ensuring the team delivers high standards of patient care. You will also work with the practice development sister in the training and development of staff and be involved in raising the profile of the speciality.
Evidence of caring for the cardiac patient together with appropriate knowledge and skills acquired in an acute cardiac environment, evidence of recent professional development and use of evidence based practice, are all essential for the post.
A Mentorship Preparation Certificate (e.g. ENB998 or equivalent) and applied experience of teaching, supervising, mentoring and assessing student nurses are also essential.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating safe and high quality patient care.
To manage patients flow throw cardiology.
To provide support to the Unit Manager and deputise when required.
To develop and manage a team of nurses.
To participate in unit development by implementing innovations.
To participate in clinical audits to ensure high standard service is delivered.
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 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.
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
KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To be responsible for ensuring high standards of patient care while adhering to trust policies and guidelines.
- To ensure nursing practice is research based and be aware of current developments guaranteeing regular updating of current policies and guidelines.
- Maintain close links with the unit manager ensuring an understanding of budgets, contracts and marketing of services. Ensure staff are aware of budgetary issues pertinent to their role.
- Manage shift rotas in accordance with ward policy while making sure staffing levels and skill mix is adequate.
- Deputise for the unit manager and perform other duties, as requested by the unit manager, commensurate with grade as well as representing the ward at meetings and committees as required.
- Work closely with the unit manager regarding core services, ward issues and opimising resources.
- Participate in clinical audits to ensure high standard service is delivered.
- To ensure good working relationships are maintained within the team and ward.
- Ensure an environment conducive to learning is provided for both trained and untrained staff
- Identify staff training/development needs through the staff appraisal system.
- Support staff in their orientation, preceptorship and rotation programmes as appropriate.
- Participate in recruitment and selection process.
- To deal with complaints as appropriate and keep the unit manager informed, making sure relevant action is taken to prevent recurrence
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current NMC registration
- Cardiology Course or acute care course
- Mentorship Course
- Cardiology or acute care experience
- ALS provider
- Management or leadership course
- Budgetary skills
Essential criteria
- Teaching skills
- Awareness of current professional nursing issues
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience at Band 5 in Cardiology taking charge of unit
- Substantial experience of teaching and supervising of junior staff
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 staf
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