Junior Sister/Charge Nurse

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Junior Sister or Junior Charge Nurse to join the Elderly Care Ward. This role involves leading patient care, discharge planning, and working closely with the multidisciplinary team to ensure high-quality care for elderly patients. The ideal candidate will be a registered nurse with experience in a medical setting, demonstrating strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to patient independence.

Benefits

First class development opportunities

Flexible working patterns

Commitment to work-life balance

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with experience in elderly care.
• Worked as a band 5/6 previously.
• Computer literate with excellent interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Take charge of the shift and manage patient care.
• Work with the multidisciplinary team for patient discharge.
• Assess patient care needs and develop care programmes.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Discharge planning

Team player

Time management

Clinical skills

Education

Registered nurse

Band 5/6 experience

Job description

Job Overview

We are looking to appoint a Junior Sister or Junior Charge Nurse to work alongside the team . You will need strong interpersonal skills and a keen interest in caring for elderly patients and promoting independence and confidence to support patients to go home.

The Junior Sister or Charge nurse will support the Ward Manager in providing leadership, direction, and coordination of nursing care within the Elderly Care Ward. The post holder will contribute to the operational management of the ward, ensuring the delivery of high quality, safe, and effective care to older adults, many of whom may present with complex physical and cognitive needs.

Main duties of the job

As a junior sister you will take charge of the shift and work closely with the Ward manager and medical staff to plan and manage patient care and discharge planning.

You will work with the multidisciplinary team , including the therapists , Consultant geriatrician and community services to enable a safe and timely discharge back into the community with further support if needed.

Excellent interpersonal skills are essential as you will be leading liaison with patients and their relatives.

You should be a registered nurse, experienced in the care of elderly patients on both days and nights. Previous experience of working within a medical area is essential

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• 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.
• Act as a role model and mentor to students and junior staff.
• Contribute towards the development of an effective learning environment within the clinical area.
• To maintain own personal and professional development, keeping PREP folders up to date.
  
  

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Person specification

Registered nurse

Essential criteria

• worked as a band 5/6 previously
  
  

competencies

Essential criteria

• computer literate, excellent interpersonal skills, discharge planning, variety of clinical skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• has Supporting Learners in Practice or working towards completion of it
  
  

professional

Essential criteria

• working within an MDT . time management. Team player
  
  

values

Essential criteria

• Flexible approach , able to work variety of shifts to suit service
  
  

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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