Sister/Charge Nurse - Respiratory Support Unit

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Halifax; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust in Halifax is seeking an enthusiastic individual to join the Respiratory Support Unit as a Ward Manager. The role focuses on leading nursing teams, improving patient care, and maintaining high standards of safety and service delivery.

Experience in Respiratory Medicine is essential to supervise staff during acutely unwell cases and to model best practice within a 7-day service framework. Contact details are provided for informal visits.

Responsibilities

• To provide professional nursing leadership.
• To provide focus and vision for the nursing activity within the ward and to assist the unit manager with leading the nursing team within areas of education, research, quality and clinical practice development.
• To ensure the safety of the unit through audits and essential safety checks.
• Coordinate the unit to run smoothly across a 7 day service.
• Taking referrals from the multi-disciplinary team.
• Manage staff and skill mix appropriately when completing rosters.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Respiratory Support Unit.

The unit consists of 47 beds with a 6 bedded RSU unit which cares for level 2 patients with a focus on acutely unwell respiratory patients who require non-invasive ventilation and high flow oxygen therapies.

The successful candidate will be instrumental in supporting the Unit Manager with the continuous improvement of the department, effectively monitoring and maintaining excellent standards of care that are reflected by patient experience.

Experience in Respiratory Medicine is essential for this role to support staff with unwell patients and to lead by example to identify and act accordingly to the deteriorating patient.

You must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, you will have a proactive management style, anticipating and dealing with issues constructively within the multidisciplinary team setting.

You must be flexible in your approach to the role and respond appropriately to the demands of an ever-changing workload.

• To provide professional nursing leadership
• To provide focus and vision for the nursing activity within the ward and to assist the unit manager with leading the nursing team within areas of education, research, quality and clinical practice development
• To ensure the safety of the unit through audits and essential safety checks
• Coordinate the unit to run smoothly across a 7 day service
• Taking referrals from the multi - disciplinary team
• Manage staff and skill mix appropriately when completing rosters

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Katharine Thornton Job title: Ward Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01422 223706