Sister/Charge Nurses

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; United States; À distance; USD 90 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible working options

Résumé du poste

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting highly motivated Sister/Charge Nurses for its Critical Care Team. Candidates should have level 2/3 critical care experience, postgraduate critical care qualification, and demonstrate strong leadership, communication, and collaborative skills.

Experience with safeguarding and governance is desirable. The role involves leadership, staffing, and ensuring high standards of patient care within a busy critical care environment.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Post-registration qualification in critical care or equivalent.
• 1st level degree or equivalent.

Responsabilités

• Coordinate unit in absence of manager, plan allocate and evaluate work.
• Provide specialist nursing knowledge to unit staff.
• Promote analytical approach to nursing care and keep ward responsive to issues.

Connaissances

Leadership

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Clinical governance

Formation

NMC registration

Critical care qualification

First degree

Outils

Basic IT skills

Description du poste

• Co-ordination of the unit in the absence of the manager including planning, allocation and evaluation of work carried out by teams or individuals and self.
• Provide specialist knowledge to all Nursing staff on the Unit.
• Will promote a critical, analytical approach to the delivery of nursing care ensuring that the ward environment is responsive to current issues.
• In support of the unit manager will assist in the review and update of procedures and protocols relating to the care of patients.
• Develop methods for identifying, maintaining and improving the quality of patient care through facilitation of best practice and clinical benchmarking.
• Ensure due regard is given to the customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients/clients.
• Responsible for the safe custody, checking and administration of drugs, including inotropes
• Posses the clinical knowledge and skills to care for, unsupervised, a level 3 critically ill patient which will include the management of patients with multiple organ failure and complex nursing needs (see clinical skills section).
• Explore and undertake expanded practice to optimise patient care as required, in accordance with unit and Trust policies Management/Leadership Responsibilities
• Exercise effective leadership acting as an exemplary role model for the unit team.
• Support the manager in maintaining adequate staff cover and skill mix on the ward through effective use of staffing rotas.
• Ensure effective communication with patients and their carers.
• Liaise with nursing, medical and allied health professional colleagues to ensure that all facets of the patients\` care are covered.
• Ensure that the ward participates in maintaining standards relating to clinical governance.
• Support the implementation of risk management policies within the unit, including the development of action plans to address identified risks.
• Ensure effective communication with relatives, Trust staff and other hospitals to facilitate the smooth transfer and after-care of patients/clients.
• In support of the unit manager ensures outcomes and action plans from patient complaints are implemented and monitored.
• Ensure own and other staffs compliance with mandatory training and help maintain current records., The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

We are pleased to be in a position to recruit highly motivated and energetic Sister/Charge Nurses who want to make a difference and join our Critical Care Team Nursing Team., You be required to demonstrate significant experience in a level 2/3 Critical Care environment and will have completed a post graduate Critical Care Course with evidence of outstanding clinical competency. We are looking for individuals with leadership potential and effective communication skills and able to demonstrate a proactive, collaborative and innovative approach to the clinical environment and passionate about excellence in patient care.

Required qualifications

• Registered Nurse, current NMC registration
• Post registration qualification in critical care / equivalent
• 1 st level degree or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• Teaching and assessing qualification/equivalent, Knowledge of current nursing issues and clinical governance, Application of evidence based practice
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work in changing environments
• Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing, Evidence of maintaining a clinical learning environment.
• Evidence of developing high standards of patient care through clinical benchmarking
• Evidence of working with pre and post registration students
• Evidence of team leadership, Supportive of colleagues
• Well-motivated
• High level of personal and professional credibility
• Committed to high standards of patient care, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £25.70 (standard disclosure) or £46.70 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.