Sister/Charge Nurse

Job overview

The post holder is designated to manage the Respiratory ward, ensuring provision of safe, high quality and individualised care to patients and the line management and development of the ward staff.

The post holder will participate in the achievement of the Ward’s objectives, through innovative and progressive approaches to patient care, be responsible for the adherence to Nursing Care Audit and Care Accreditation processes. Be responsible for the development of clinical audit and research based activities and for the development of the ward as a learning environment.

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1. Management

2. Patient Care

3. Multidisciplinary Liaison

4. Communications

5. Clinical Governance

6. Education & Training

7. Research & Audit

8. Personal Performance

9. Knowledge of Respiratory Diseases with experience in Non-invasive ventilation and High flow nasal oxygen, and care and management of Tracheostomy.

Working for our organisation

This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful foundation trust with a strong commitment to delivering the highest standards of clinical quality, patient care and staff experience.  The Trusts Together as One Strategy describes our organisational values and a pledge to support our people through compassionate and inclusive leadership.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is North Derbyshire's only acute District General Hospital, with 24 hour Emergency Department services; we're responsible for providing care and treatment to more than 400,000 people who live in our communities. We are modern, well resourced and in commuting distance of Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham and close to the Peak District. The Care Quality Commission has rated the Trust as ‘Good’. Our vision is to provide exceptional patient care provided by exceptional people.  We work closely with our partners across health and care as part of the Joined Up Care Derbyshire Integrated Care System.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Management

1.  Line management and supervision of all grades of staff within the sphere of authority, allocation of workload and reporting deficiencies to the Ward Leader as appropriate.
2. Planning staff duty rotas to meet workload requirements.
3. Assisting the Ward Leader to manage staff performance issues, including sickness absence, capability and discipline.
4. Assisting the Ward Leader to ensure effective and efficient use of the units beds, ensuring services are delivered within contract agreement.
5. Liaising closely with the bed management team to ensure timely admission and discharge of patients.

Patient Care

1.  Supporting senior and less experienced staff in the provision of patient care.
2. Assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of individual programmes of care.
3. Exploring and promoting new ways of working to enhance patient care.

Multidisciplinary Liaison

1.  Liaison with all disciplines and departments, which interface with care delivery.
2. Encourage good working relationships between all members of the multidisciplinary team.

Communications

1.   Assisting in the development of communication systems and maintaining existing effective systems within the clinical area, with medical, paramedical and support services staff and with patients, relatives and carers.

Clinical Governance

1. Assisting the Ward Leader in setting, maintaining and monitoring standards of care and actively supporting the development and implementation of a written nursing philosophy.
2. Ensuring an approach to care which recognises the needs and views of patients and their carers and which places the patient at the centre of all activities.
3. Ensuring an approach to care which minimises clinical risk and maximises clinical effectiveness.
4. Recognising clinical and other untoward incidents and reporting these through the Trust’s incident reporting mechanism and supporting other staff to do the same.
5. Supporting the investigation of complaints and incidents through the Trust’s complaint s and incident reporting procedures, using these as a learning opportunity and supporting the Ward Leader to change practice as a result, when appropriate.
6. Ensuring that unit staff adhere to infection control procedures at all times. identifying any training and development needs for nursing and support staff related to control of infection and liaising closely with the Infection Control Team to minimise the possibility of hospital acquired infection on the unit.
7. Supporting the Ward Leader in ensuring that the service develops in line with the Trust’s Clinical Governance Framework, and that services comply with the standards required by the professional bodies, NHSLA, Investors in People, equality and diversity policy, CHAI and confidential enquires.

Education & Training

1.  Participating in ongoing personal professional development programmes and in the teaching and development of all grades of staff.
2. Acting as mentor where appropriate and as an adviser to students and other members of staff in matters relating to the clinical area.
3. Creating and facilitating a learning environment conductive with the acquisition of further knowledge and skills.
4. Working closely with the Ward Leaders, Clinical Educator and Senior Ward Leader to identify the learning and development needs of the unit staff and in formulating plans to meet these.

Research/Audit

1.  Demonstrating a commitment to the development of research skills whilst being receptive to the research plans of others.
2. Assisting in the application and evaluation of current research findings and participation in appropriate research/evaluation studies within the clinical environment.
3. Support the development of multidisciplinary clinical audit at unit level and encourage nursing staff to undertake audit projects.

Personal Performance

1.  Take every opportunity to ensure the acquisition of new skills and knowledge.  Actively participate in the Trust’s appraisal process.
2. Maintain patient, staff and Trust confidentiality at all times.

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

 UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.  Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.  Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be  eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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