Sister / Charge Nurse

NHS; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a motivated Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to join their team in Wakefield. The successful candidate will oversee ward management, ensuring high-quality patient care and effective discharge processes. This role offers an opportunity for professional development and the chance to make a significant impact on patient services.

Benefits

NHS pension plan

Generous holiday allowance

Employee health and wellbeing services

Onsite nurseries

Childcare vouchers

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Experience in patient-centered care.
• Ability to manage and coordinate nursing teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage the ward and coordinate delivery of care.
• Lead the team in providing expert nursing care.
• Ensure safe and timely discharge of patients.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Patient Care

Job description

Ready for your first Junior Sister Role or perhaps are you working currently as a band 6 and looking for a fresh challenge? If so we are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, forward thinking, committed and motivated Junior Sister/Charge Nurse with excellent communication and leadership skills to join our nursing team. The successful candidate will support the Ward Manager and Multidisciplinary team to provide patient centred evidence based care; maintain high care delivery standards and efficient, safe management of patients within our busy ward.This role will offer the opportunity to be clinically in charge of a shift leading a team and supporting them in delivering high quality care. You will also be able to use your clinical expertise working to deliver high quality care and assist with our facilitation of discharges.If you would like to explore this opportunity further and have a passion for developing and improving services for Cardiology we would want to hear from you. As part of joining the Trust you will receive a personal professional development plan to support your future career with The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.

Main duties of the job

Manage the ward and co-ordinate the delivery of skilled, effective care and timely discharge.Ensure the safety of patients, staff and visitors.Deliver expert nursing care, leading the team by example.Provide advice and supervision to junior staff.Actively participate in the development of the Older Adult service by using innovation and evidence-based practice.Provide support to the Ward Manger and assist with managing the teams.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Job responsibilities

Key requirements

• Manage the ward environment, and be responsible for ensuring co-ordination and delivery of skilled, effective care and safe, timely discharge.
• Assess, prioritise, plan, implement and evaluate individualised patient care. Supervise others in the aforementioned functions.
• Ensure safe, timely discharge or transfer, of patient, to wards, other hospitals or care settings.
• Perform and ensure others perform patient observations such as blood pressure, pulse, respirations, oxygen saturations, early warning score, pain score, pressure score, peak expiratory flow, temperatures, and electrocardiographs.
• Provide follow up advice, treatment and care.
• Perform procedures.
• Complete Investigations such as blood glucose measurement, ward test urine and blood gas analysis.
• Recognise and advise on Vulnerable Adult Abuse protection issues and follow the Kirklees Vulnerable Adult Protection Policy, informing the appropriate professionals and parents/carers of concerns and procedure as per Mid-Yorkshire Trust policy.
• Initiate and participate in Advanced Life Support and cardiac arrest management.
• Maintain clear, accurate, legible and timely written documentation in patient’s notes providing a record of care delivered. Remind other members of the team to do likewise.
• Administer intra venous, intra muscular, subcutaneous injections, and rectal and oral medication.
• Provide direct patient care. Attending to patients’ hygiene needs such as giving and removing bedpans and urinals. Washing incontinent, unclean and infested patients as required.
• Give direction, support and advice to junior staff.
• Accept accountability and responsibility for own safe clinical practice. Comply with the NMC Code of Practice and subsequent published guidelines for practice.
• Act as the patient’s advocate when necessary.
• Attend the department and assume nurse leadership (in absence of Matron and Senior Sister) in the event of a major incident being declared.
• Implement and maintain control of infection procedures, such as hand washing, and be attentive that others do so.

Person Specification

Qualifications

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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.