Junior Sister/Charge Nurse - Frailty SDEC

Integrated Care System; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn is offering an exciting opportunity for a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse in the Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) department. This role involves providing leadership within a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high standards of clinical care for frail patients, and participating in the hospital's ongoing development and digital transformation initiatives. You will receive support for continuous professional development and work in a community-focused environment that values kindness and fairness.

Benefits

CPD and revalidation support

In-house training

Qualifications

• Post registration experience managing patients living with frailty.
• Willingness to undertake teaching and assessing qualification if not already held.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong clinical leadership and support the multidisciplinary team.
• Continuously improve patients' journey and clinical quality.
• Manage unpredictable workloads effectively.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Prioritisation

Patient care management

Change management

Education

Post registration Educational Continuing development

Recognised NMC Teaching and Assessing Qualification

Job description

Go back The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

Junior Sister/Charge Nurse - Frailty SDEC

The closing date is 14 July 2025

Exciting opportunity arise for a Junior Sister/Charge nurse in Frailty Same day Emergency Care Department (SDEC), unit within Urgent and Emergency care .This is a newly created post after successful pilot project.

We provide support with CPD and revalidation as well as in house training specific to the speciality.

Our Consultants ,Matron, Senior Sister and the rest of the multidisciplinary team will support your development and will invest their own expertise and time with you to ensure your career and the service continues to develop.

Main duties of the job

This is a great opportunity for you to join a highly skilled, dynamic and friendly multidisciplinary team whose goals are to constantly improving our skills and inspiring others to improve patients' journey.

You will be someone who can offer strong clinical leadership and organisational skills and will also have a gift for inspiring multi-disciplinary teams to continually improve clinical quality and patient satisfaction.

If this role fits your profile we would love you to be part of our team.

About us

There's never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We're working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we've ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as 'Good', and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information about the job role.

*Please note that online interviews will not be available for this vacancy. All shortlisted candidates will be required to attend an in-person interview*

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of Post registration Educational Continuing development
• Recognised NMC Teaching and Assessing Qualification or equivalent, or willingness to undertake, or in progress.

Experience

• Post registration experience managing patients living with frailty or equivalent experience working alongside geriatricians
• Evidence of innovation and achievements in clinical practice
• Can demonstrate their experience of collaborative working
• Can demonstrate the use of appropriate criteria to prioritise patient case load including understanding of the Clinical Frailty Score
• Can demonstrate experience of difficult conversations particularly around advanced care planning
• Evidence of working as part of a multi- disciplinary working experience
• Demonstrates experience of clinical risk management
• Community experience

Skills

• Demonstrates understanding of efficient and effective use of resources where the workload can be unpredictable
• Demonstrates the ability to prioritise and implement and use new ways of working.
• Ability to prioritise
• Demonstrates a high level of clinical expertise
• Understands specific needs of patients complex cases
• Can demonstrate knowledge of current discharge to assess processes.
• Knowledge of NHS plan and national nursing strategy
• Demonstrate knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and its implications for practice
• Successful change management
• Audit experience / research skills
• Experience of Patient and Public Involvement in Service Delivery

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum pro rata