Sister Charge Nurse

To maintain a high standard of professional nursing care, including providing immediate assessment and care of patients. In addition to providing sound leadership as well as working within a team, to supervise, nurture, counsel and develop the knowledge and skills of staff.Duties and ResponsibilitiesMain duties of the job

• Utilise their professional skills and knowledge obtained through learning and experience.
• To continually assess, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical care of patients without supervision and incorporate the standards and philosophy of the Emergency Department.
• Take an accurate and comprehensive nursing history of individual patients.
• Work with medical staff to understand their patient's specific requirements and also their organisational requirements.
• Work closely with the multidisciplinary team providing them with professional and clinical nursing expertise.
• Able to give patients a balanced view of risks and benefits of symptom management methods.
• Able to confidently initiate alternatives if planned interventions are not satisfactory.
• Assist in the transfer of critically ill patients to other departments within the Trust and other hospitals.
• Be competent in the use of equipment used to monitor and facilitate treatment and care of the patients, i.e. 12 lead ECG, non-invasive blood pressure recording, central lines, infusion pumps and intravenous drug therapy, recording and informing medical staff of blood results.
• To provide managerial and professional responsibilities through the professional team structure/ framework. To be an innovator/ change agent.
• To participate in/ with advanced resuscitation skills in respect of trauma, adult and paediatrics.
• Needs to be competent and confident to take the nurse lead within the department on given shifts.
  
  We are a pioneering research active organisation and we are proud to be doing things differently; whether that is redefining the shape of the local health and care system through our innovative plans for integrated care, or developing new services such as our Frail Older Person's Assessment Service and our Medically Fit for Discharge Ward. As well as creating the future, we also know the importance of providing really good, safe, and caring services for our patients.
Our patients tell us we're getting this right, with our Friends and Family Test results consistently above 95 per cent (patients 'extremely likely' or 'likely' to recommend us to their friends and family). We see a high level of trauma and our TARN data evidences that our performance in regard to trauma is of a high standard. The Emergency Department works very closely with the Ambulatory Emergency Care and there is a dedicated training programme in place which all staff are able to access

£37,338 to £44,962 a year This is a new post which will require 24/7 shift patterns