Intensive Care Sister/Charge Nurse

North Bristol NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is looking for an experienced Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse to join the Intensive Care Unit at Southmead Hospital in Bristol. The role involves providing high-quality patient care while leading staff and promoting a learning environment. Successful candidates will be supported with ongoing training and development opportunities.

Benefits

Structured induction programme

Opportunities for continuous professional development

Access to simulation training suites

Qualifications

• Substantive experience in ICU setting required.
• Evidence of change management experience preferred.
• Ability to lead and work well within a team.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for assessing, implementing, and evaluating care of critically ill patients.
• Act as Clinical Support Nurse leading and coordinating the running of a Pod during a shift.
• Provide teaching and promote a learning environment for staff.

Skills

Leadership

Teamwork

Patient Care

Education

NMC Registration Parts 1 (RGN) or Part 12 (RN Adult Branch)

Academic achievement at degree level or working towards

Tools

Teaching/Assessing Qualification

Job description

Main area Intensive Care Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: Secondments will be offered if more appropriate Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Minimum hours 23 per week) Job ref 339-ASCR9643-ANJ

Site Southmead Hospital, Intensive Care Unit Town Bristol Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 18/06/2025 23:59

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Job overview

Are you an experienced Critical Care Nurse?

Are you looking to work in a state of the art Intensive Care Unit that has a strong reputation for providing exceptional health care?

If the answer is yes then this is the position for you.

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) is looking to recruit a Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse.

NBT is a progressive and ambitious provider of health care services, delivering care to a large local population, with specialist regional services for major trauma, neurosciences, vascular, urology, plastics and burns, orthopaedics and renal services. With a turnover of £550m and 9,000 staff, our clinical teams have built a strong reputation for exceptional healthcare. Our acute services moved into a brand new, state of the art, hospital building in May 2014. This new 850 bed facility at the Southmead site offers patients single rooms with en-suite facilities, greatly improving privacy and dignity and reducin g the spread of infection.

The 48 bedded ICU is now one of the busiest units in the country with a team of over 300 staff treating more than 2000 critically ill patients each year. Southmead ICU cares for emergency and elective patients from all medical and surgical specialities except cardiac, ENT and paediatrics.

Main duties of the job

This is an opening for a dynamic, forward thinking individual to join our highly focused and talented team who pride themselves on delivering excellent, high quality and safe patient care which is reflected in our national profile. We are looking for an experienced, proactive and confident clinical practitioner who is keen to develop effective leadership skills, assume responsibility and demonstrate a commitment to consistently maintaining high clinical standards. We are fully committed to training and development. The unit has a dedicated education team and supports staff undertaking specialist courses such as Critical Care, Burns and Neurosciences. We offer a structured induction and run a Foundation Programme for new nurses to ICU, supporting them as they join the team. There are two simulation training suites located within the unit. The successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in teaching nursing staff, both pre and post registration.

In return we can give you the opportunity to develop the clinical and leadership skills required to progress your career. We can offer you a new challenge in a forward thinking environment with opportunities to continue your professional development.

Working for our organisation

You will be working in Bristol, the largest city in the South West. A beautiful, historic place, as vibrant and lively now as it’s ever been. Whether its culture, shopping, eating out, sport or any of life’s other essentials, you’ll find them here.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be responsible for assessing, implementing and evaluating the care of the critically ill patient.
• Act as the Clinical Support Nurse on a regular basis, leading and co-coordinating the running of a Pod during a shift.
• Carry out designated management responsibilities.
• Support Band 7 senior nurses and the Matron in the supervision and professional development of a defined group of ICU staff.
• Act as a role model/mentor and assessor to both pre and post-registration learners and junior staff.
• Provide teaching and actively promote a learning environment for all staff.
• Contribute to practice development and the delivery of high quality evidence based care.

Act as unit co-coordinator in the absence of a senior nurse.

Person specification

Points based interview

• NMC Registration Parts 1 (RGN) or Part 12 (RN Adult Branch)
• Appropriate teaching/assessing qualification.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Academic achievement at degree level or working towards
• Substantive experience in ICU setting.
• Evidence of improving patient experience.
• Evidence of change management.
• Ability to lead a team
• Able to work well within a team.

If you apply for this vacancy and have not received a communication from North Bristol NHS Trust within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

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North Bristol NHS Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.

At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.

Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Morwenna Maddock Job title Matron Critical Care Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01174141466 Additional information

For further details or to arrange an informal visit please contact Morwenna Maddock - Critical Care Matron