Ward Sister / Charge nurse

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

An exciting opportunity has become available within the Nottingham Neurosciences Unit for an individual who is enthusiastic, self-motivated and a dynamic nurse leader. If that's you then we would welcome you to apply to lead our nursing team on D11.

We are seeking a nurse who can demonstrate motivation towards delivering the highest standard of nursing care and the ability to work as part of a proactive and forward-thinking multidisciplinary team.

We are looking to recruit a ward sister/charge nurse who will provide excellent care and get the basics right, someone who loves to develop others to become excellent at what they do and wants to make a difference.

This is a great opportunity to develop your Leadership and Managerial skills with the support of the wider managerial team. We are committed to flexible working and improving the lives of our staff through active staff involvement.

Main duties of the job

You will be self-driven, innovative with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You will also be highly motivated with a desire to provide the highest standards of care, whilst demonstrating clear leadership. You will provide support and supervision of nursing and non-nursing staff; assist in maintaining and monitoring of standards through Nursing Metrics Dashboard, Tendable Benchmarks and Trust Infection Control Audits and standards.

We have a management team that is both innovative and proactive in ensuring that high-quality care is delivered to our patients. We are keen to encourage developments in line with Trust policy and working in new ways. We recognise responsibility to ensure that staff are developed and stimulated within their environment in order to achieve vision and deliver care that reflects the values and behaviours of the Trust. We offer excellent opportunities for career progression, training and development.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

Have 24-hour responsibility for managing staff and budgets. Ensuring that the standards and quality of care given are maintained to a high standard, to include hotel service provision and the environment in which care is delivered.

Have responsibility in ensuring that patients and users are involved in their care.

Providing visible evidence that their feedback is used to maintain standards or implement improvements that have an effect on their care.

Be an effective leader and role model, providing regular direct clinical care, in addition to ensuring effective use of non-clinical time to support the implementation of both clinical and non-clinical governance, facilitating the modernisation of patient services.

Work clinically as a member of the team administering treatments ensuring standards are being maintained, evaluated and where necessary improved.

Undertake any other duties that may reasonably be required.

The post holder is required to hold a valid 1st level registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

• Current level one NMC registration
• Degree in health / nursing related studies
• Relevant post-basic study relevant to specialty
• Have a suitable Teaching & Assessing / Mentoring Qualification
• Formal leadership and management training
• Research training/experience
• Completion of all local competency packages.

Experience

• Post registration experience to include management/leadership experience
• Supervision of non-registered staff, pre-registration and post-basic students
• Evidence of ability to mentor
• Ability to lead change and lead new ways of working
• Experience of audit/research.
• Formal teaching of groups of staff
• Budget management

Communication and relationship skills

• Able to present and receive complex information within the multi-professional team
• Demonstrate negotiation and influencing skills
• Assertiveness skills and the ability to deal with conflict
• Team player who can initiate, delegate and complete projects
• Demonstrate self-awareness and understanding of personal accountability
• Ability to support colleagues, patients and relatives/carers in distressing circumstances.
• Demonstrate evidence of providing formal teaching sessions
• Demonstrate leadership for the management of change

Planning and organisation skills

• Can formulate short and long-term objectives
• Demonstrate an ability to prioritise own workload and recognise, prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
• Demonstrate the personal development of members within a team.
• Ability to effectively lead a team
• Effective resource management
• Experience in strategic planning for a service

Analytical and Judgement skills

• Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse complex problems/situations and ensure effective interventions are put in place.
• Ability to generate and present reports and documents.
• Deal effectively with clinical issues within defined procedures/guidelines
• Demonstrate insight in the use of data to influence patient care and services
• Demonstrate a knowledge of current issues related to NHS strategy and policy
• Use of clinical benchmarking to influence patient care (Essence of Nursing)
• Ability in the use of appraisal, personal development review and training needs analysis

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.