Sister/Charge Nurse

NHS; Smethwick; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Smethwick is seeking a Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse with critical care experience. This role offers an opportunity to enhance leadership skills within a dynamic team, ensuring patient safety and quality of care. The ideal candidate should have relevant qualifications and experience in critical care nursing, with a commitment to professional development.

Benefits

Access to postgraduate education

Supportive senior leadership team

Qualifications

• Must demonstrate developing leadership skills.
• Experience in critical care nursing is essential.
• Ability to manage evolving clinical situations.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to improve patient safety.
• Manage resources and support team members.
• Contribute to the development of clinical practices.

Skills

Leadership skills

Patient safety management

Risk reduction

Critical care experience

Education

Degree level qualification in a health-related subject

Current NMC registration

Post Adult Intensive Care Course

Teaching and assessing qualification

Job description

Are you looking to further develop your Leadership in Critical Care? If so, then please read on as Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust wants to invest in you.

We are looking to recruit committed Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurses with previous Critical Care experience and completion of the Adult Critical Care Course to join our team. This post is an excellent opportunity to advance your clinical leadership knowledge and skills further within the critical care specialty.

Main duties of the job

For this post, a strong understanding of current issues in healthcare is essential alongside experience of direct involvement in improving patient safety, risk reduction, the management of evolving clinical situations, and the development of others. An essential element of this role is leadership, and the candidates must be able to demonstrate they are developing their leadership skills and are forward thinking.

We are a dynamic service incorporating Outreach, Follow up Support Service, Nursing workforce, medical workforce and Advanced Critical Care Practitioners. This is supported by a Professional Development Team working in collaboration with the wider multidisciplinary team.

Supported by an enthusiastic and dynamic senior leadership team, we actively encourage your professional and personal development, through a professional team structure and can offer opportunities to access post graduate education including Advanced Life Support.

About us

Our new hospital plays an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

• Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
• Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
• Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration
• Post Adult Intensive Care Course
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Degree level qualification in a health-related subject

Experience

• Relevant experience in critical care nursing
• Evidence of previous resource management
• Critical Care management experience
• Project management
• Experience of PADR and performance management

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 salary for this role is £38,682 to £46,580 per annum, pro-rata.