Job Overview
Junior Sister/Charge Nurse (Paediatric Emergency Department)
Location: Wexham Park Hospital
We are seeking a highly motivated and compassionate Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to join our friendly, forward-thinking and fast-paced Paediatric Emergency Department at Wexham Park Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse with strong clinical and leadership skills to become an integral part of a dynamic and supportive multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing outstanding care to children and their families.
As a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse, you will play a vital role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality, family-centred care within a busy emergency setting. You will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing nursing care on a shift-by-shift basis, supervising a team of registered nurses, healthcare support workers, and student nurses. Working closely with the Senior Ward Sister/Charge Nurse, you will support the overall leadership and operational management of the department.
In the absence of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, you will take charge of the department, ensuring safe and effective patient flow, maintaining high clinical standards, and promoting a positive working environment. You will also act as a role model, demonstrating excellent clinical practice and professional conduct at all times.
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to further develop your leadership skills and emergency paediatric nursing expertise in a diverse, challenging, and rewarding environment.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for the assessment of care needs on a wide range of different paediatric conditions that present to the Emergency Department.
On a shift-by-shift basis, co-ordinate and monitor the progress of patients along their critical pathway, reporting any variance from the pathway.
Have the ability to co-ordinate a shift as the nurse in charge being responsible for managing a team and ensuring patients receive safe care.
Take named responsibility for co-ordinating individual patient’s discharge From the Emergency Department.
Ensure that all nursing practice within the clinical area complies with Trust Nursing policies and procedures.
To comply at all times with the NMC Code of Conduct.
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
- Registered Nurse
- Evidence of recent Continued Practice Development
Desirable criteria
- APLS
- Mentorship
- 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
- Evidence of effective of change management
- Knowledge of paediatric emergency medicine pathways
- Triaging/streaming, IV medication, PGD, Plastering, Venepuncture, IV cannulation
Desirable criteria
- An understanding of clinical governance
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.
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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