Band 7 Clinical Acute Care Senior Sister and Charge nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 7 Acute Care Senior Sister / Charge Nurse to join the nursing team working on our Medical Receiving Unit at King George Hospital.

Successful applicants will be working with other multidisciplinary Acute Medicine Team, in providing leadership, actively ensuring patient flow, high quality care , holistic medical care whilst supporting colleagues to raise standards of patient care and be well organised and can work autonomously as well as part of the team., The role requires expert nurse with sound clinical experience in all aspects of nursing care to teach and promote quality of patient care.

From pressure area care to delivery of high-level acuity care the aim is to support and develop the junior nurses to ensure nurses are competent in managing all patients, and general aspects of care.

You must have knowledge and understanding of critically ill patients and experience of patient flow. You must have the ability to work alongside the nurses/doctors to provide quality care to patients.

You will provide senior nursing support to clinical areas and patients and will work with the Deputy Matron to provide seven-day service.

You will be required to support and deliver the quality agenda for the area.

You will collate and report data and undertake audits and disseminate good practice.

You will be expected to work autonomously. Staff management is a fundamental part of this role and supporting the Deputy Matron will be expected.

You will actively participate in and oversee the patient flow and management of the clinical area.

You will act as a mentor, teaching and supervising junior staff and colleagues, including student nurses, healthcare support workers, medical staff and AHPs.

We are looking for highly motivated, dynamics and enthusiatic Registered Nurses with post registration and qualification, excellent communication skills, and we invite applications from those nurses who relish the challenge of working within Medicine.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) is one of the largest acute trusts in the UK providing specialist trauma, oncology, neurosciences, hyper acute, stroke and critical care services. We are passionate about developing excellent and sustainable services, including developing our capacity to act as the main tertiary referral centre for North East London and Essex.

The Acute Medicine team at BHRUT spans across both Queen's and King George Hospital. Each site has one Medical Receiving Unit; Queens's Hospital has a 30 bedded unit whilst King George is slightly smaller at 28 beds. From January 2021 we have opened up a new 30 bedded short stay ward at Queen's Hospital., We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.