Band 6 Critical Care Nurse

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in London seeks a passionate Band 6 Registered Nurse to deliver high-quality care in a critical care setting. The role includes mentoring junior staff and participating in an extensive development programme aimed at enhancing leadership and management skills. Ideal candidates will possess a UK accredited critical care qualification and demonstrable experience in nursing.

Benefits

Generous benefits

Flexible hours

Next level training opportunity

Qualifications

• Experience in providing high quality nursing care.
• Ability to assess, implement, and evaluate care independently.
• Commitment to developing leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and monitor the nursing team performance.
• Deputise for the Senior Nurse when required.
• Participate in the Band 6 development programme.

Skills

Mentoring junior staff

Leadership skills

Critical care knowledge

Education

UK accredited critical care qualification

Job description

Overview

Providing high quality, effective and individualised nursing care to a variety of patients in a compassionate and caring way. Assessing care needs and developing, implementing and evaluating care without supervision whilst teaching more junior members of staff. Helping to lead and monitor the performance of the nursing team by completion of appraisals. Deputising for the Senior Nurse as required. Ensure that you are a good role model at all times.

Band 6 Opportunity and Programme

The Critical Care team at Barnet Hospital is passionate about getting it right for patients, their families and staff. We are looking to appoint passionate, enthusiastic, motivated and dynamic Band 6 Registered Nurses who hold a UK accredited critical care qualification, have experience mentoring junior staff and are ready to take on a more senior role within our 18-bed capacity critical care department.

This Band 6 opportunity will develop your leadership and management skills within our proactive multi-disciplinary team. We will place you on the Band 6 development programme over a period of 9 months. Areas included in this programme are:

• Enrolment on our in-house leadership programme which is accredited by Middlesex University and support you to attend NHS Leadership Academy Courses in the future
• Support attendance on an assessor's course if you haven't already obtained your qualification
• Book you to attend Recruitment and Selection Training and perform interviews with a more senior member of staff once completed
• Enrolled onto ILS training
• Appraisal Training
• Allocated band 7 and senior band 6 to support you whilst on the programme

About the Trust

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6 million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17 million tests. Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.