Junior Sister/Charge Nurse - Princess Elizabeth Ward

Kings College Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits as a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse in a vibrant paediatric ward. This role involves providing high-quality nursing care, leading a dedicated team, and fostering a family-centered environment for young patients. You will play a crucial role in mentoring junior staff and ensuring the delivery of excellent clinical services. Join a renowned teaching hospital that values compassion, teamwork, and professional development. If you are passionate about paediatric nursing and eager to make a difference, this is your chance to shine in a dynamic and supportive setting.

Qualifications

• Registered Children’s Nurse with excellent clinical skills and commitment to care.
• Experience in leadership and mentoring junior staff is essential.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for maintaining standards and quality in the unit's management.
• Provide holistic care and support to children and their families.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Communication skills

Team building

Time-management

Leadership

Education

1st level Registered Children's Nurse NMC

Further relevant professional studies

Mentorship programme or equivalent

Job description

Junior Sister/Charge Nurse - Princess Elizabeth Ward

Band 6

Main area Paediatrics Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 26.6 hours per week (Long Days 0730-2000 or 2000-0730 - mix of days/nights/weekends) Job ref 213-NUR-DH-6791828-A

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Denmark Hill Town London Salary £44,806 - £53,134 per annum including High Cost Area (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 31/12/2024 23:59

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join our team as a Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse on Princess Elizabeth Ward.

The Children's Surgical Ward is a 21 bedded unit and has 11 beds (Princess Elizabeth) allocated for surgical patients and 10 beds (Lion Ward) for neurosurgical or neuro-rehabilitation patients.

You must be a Registered Children’s Nurse with excellent clinical skills, self-motivated, enthusiastic and committed to providing high standards of care for all our paediatric patients, their families and carers. The ability to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential. You should have time-management and clinical organisational skills.

The post holder will be responsible for maintaining standards and quality in the day-to-day management of the unit. This role will enable you to gain and demonstrate skills in leadership and people management within the clinical environment. Your primary responsibilities will be to regularly take charge of the unit and support and develop junior staff by being a mentor and role model.

Care and compassion in managing our paediatric patients and families is important to us. We expect successful candidates to demonstrate these qualities on a daily basis, and have the resilience to meet the challenges of our busy and stimulating work environment.

• Ensure family-centred care is promoted on our ward and children and young people are treated with dignity and respect.
• Act with professionalism and integrity at all time; being a role-model, providing direction and motivation to colleagues and students.
• Provide holistic care to children, young people and their families, ensuring everyone has equal opportunities.
• Demonstrate honesty and learn from errors to support the creation of a no-blame culture where people feel able to share and learn from experiences together.
• To work as part of a team demonstrating effective communication and working collaboratively with colleagues within and external to the department.
• To participate in the teaching and supervision of junior staff and student nurses
• To be a safe and effective practitioner, able to provide patients and families with a high standard of nursing care.
• To deputise for ward manager and hold some management responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Practice
• To assist in the delivery of a expert nursing service for people with specialist needs
• To provide expert nursing advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals following diagnosis and through treatment
• To ensure continuity of a high standard of evidence based nursing care, assessing health, health related and nursing needs of patients, their families and other carers
• To manage own patient caseload
• To be actively involved in in-patient care, liaising with ward staff to ensure high quality nursing care
• To assist in the delivery of a seamless service through Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) processes and communication
• To be aware of the process of operational policy review annually in accordance with national standards
• To ensure care is given in accordance with agreed protocols.
• To follow-up patients under supervision as appropriate and ensure all relevant information is available to enable patients
• To make an informed choice about their treatment
• To liaise with the ward staff to ensure appropriate and timely discharge/follow-up arrangement are in place for patients
• To adhere to the mechanisms for MDT referrals to the Clinical Nurse

Specialists
• To liaise with local community, social services, paramedics and voluntary organisations regarding current service availability
• To actively involve service users in providing feedback of their experience of the current service and suggestions for improvements.
• To participate in the development of appropriate patient group directives to facilitate/enhance the discharge process
• To participate in relevant forums at Care Group or Trust Level to represent the service perspective
• To act as a resource person to others, providing accurate information, advice and support to the multidisciplinary team, patients and their relatives.
• To provide appropriate information and educational literature in order to assist patients/carers make informed choices as to their treatment plan and continuing management.

Education and Research
• To participate in programmes of education and training in according to meet the identified needs of clients, carers and others involved in their care.
• To actively participate in educational events provided by the Trust and Primary Care sector.
• To attend meetings and conferences as appropriate ensuring that you are fully conversant with current issues within the Trust and nationally
• To participate in clinical audit within the Trust as directed
• To participate in any appropriate/relevant Trust approved research projects conducted within the department.
• To be aware of and actively apply nursing research and evidence based practice relevant to the speciality.
• To work with other staff in clinical areas where changes to practice are required. Also where opportunities exist to improve treatment and support for patients.

Management
• To participate in any local change programmes in order to improve standards and communication links from Acute trust through to Primary Care.
• To keep updated on clinical and professional developments, attending training courses and appropriate updates.
• To work within the policies and guidelines set out by the Trust and Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice.
• To have responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self in the working environment to follow safe working practices and to comply at all times with the Trust’s Health and Safety Policies and Procedures.
• To be familiar with the Trust’s Risk Management procedures on reporting complaints, accidents and incidents.
• To network with the team of clinical nurse specialists within the Trust to evaluate and promote the specialist-nursing role.
• To utilise and maintain information systems to aid audit and to provide regular actively analysis reports.
• To maintain contemporaneous and accurate treatment records, submitting relevant statistics, reports and activity data as requested.
• To contribute evaluation to the service in terms of clinical effectiveness, clinical excellence and value for money.
• To maintain effective links within primary secondary and tertiary care to ensure effective communication.
• Ensures compliance with the Trust's Equality and Diversity Policy, supporting the delivery of the Trusts Race Equality Scheme and the Trust's duty to positively promote race equality and equality of opportunity for disabled people ensuring services are responsive to the needs of equality groups.

Personal Professional Development
• To achieve a range of clinical competencies as required within the Trust and Care Group.
• To keep up-to-date with current literature and research in the speciality.
• To maintain your own personal and professional development in accordance with PREP requirements, attending mandatory study sessions as required.
• To undergo and actively participate in your own performance appraisals
• To keep up to date with NMC, relevant specialist Faculty & Trust guidelines and protocols.
• To adhere to the NMC Code of Professional conduct working within and accepting responsibility for maintaining agreed levels of competence.
• To be working towards further post registration qualifications relevant to the specialty are.

In carrying out the duties of the post, the employee is required to work in accordance with the policies and procedures of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, including Health and Safety, confidentiality, data protection and equal opportunities. King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust operates a no smoking policy.
This role specification is for guidance only and will change over time and according to circumstances.

Person specification

Knowledge and Experience

• Demonstrable clinical expertise, relevant to the area.

Education and Qualifications

• 1st level Registered Children's Nurse NMC
• Further relevant professional studies relevant to the clinical areas
• Mentorship programme or equivalent teaching qualification

Skills and Competencies

• Communication skills – able to relate and communicate with patients and staff at all levels and from different professions. Adapts communication style as necessary and is able to work with and through others.
• Team building and working skills – able to lead a team to achieve results

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.