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Job Overview
Junior Sister/Charge Nurse (Paediatric Emergency Department)
Frimley Park Hospital | Permanent | 26.5 hours per week
We are seeking a motivated and compassionate
Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to join our friendly, dynamic, and supportive team within the
Paediatric Emergency Department at
Frimley Park Hospital.
In this permanent, part-time role, you will play a key part in delivering high-quality care by leading and supporting a team of nurses. Working under the guidance of the Senior Ward Sister/Charge Nurse, you will take responsibility for coordinating and overseeing shifts in their absence, ensuring safe, effective, and family-centred care is maintained at all times.
This is a fantastic opportunity to further develop your leadership skills in a fast-paced, rewarding environment.
Main duties of the job
- To support the ED Sister/Charge Nurse in leading the nursing team, ensuring that high standards are met and maintained for all children and their families
- To support the ED Sister/Charge Nurse ensuring the departments ethos reflects the Trust values, and assist with the delivery of patient safety, a good patient experience and the effective running of the department
- To act as a skilled practitioner and senior nurse within the Emergency Department to ensure that the highest quality of care is given to patients
- Ensuring that all clinical practice is evidence based, in accordance with local and national standards for good practice
- To assist in the clinical management of the Emergency Department by ensuring the efficient and effective use of resources, and providing clinical leadership, supervision and support to the team
- In conjunction with the Clinical Matrons / Team Leaders and other Sisters / Charge Nurses facilitate the development of the service and personal development of all nursing staff within the clinical area of responsibility
- To take the lead on projects as appropriate
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registration
- Registered Sick Children’s Nurse
- Evidence of recent Continued Practice Development
Desirable criteria
- APLS
- Module in High Dependency Care
- Module in Paediatric Emergency Care
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to take charge of a clinical unit
- Excellent leadership skills
- Good, effective interpersonal & communication skills (written & verbal).
- Able to work without supervision
- Teaching & assessing experience
- Competent in - Triaging/streaming, IV medication, PGD, Plastering, Venepuncture and IV cannulation
Desirable criteria
- Nurse-led competencies
- X-ray requesting
- Suturing
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of experience within emergency care or an acute setting
- Evidence of up-to-date clinical practice
- Able to demonstrate MDT working
Desirable criteria
- Experience of audit
- Experience of implementing change
- Demonstrate the ability to provide teaching in paediatrics.
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- Full time hours, shift work, flexibility
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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