Sister / Charge Nurse - ED / UCC

You will have a strong interest in developing new staff, and a proactive approach to delivering a high standard of evidence based care is essential. You must be able to demonstrate a working knowledge and understanding of current issues in emergency care and be able to translate this into quality nursing. We value experience and skills learnt elsewhere and will work with you to enable those skills to be utilised and developed further. As a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse you will assist in promoting change and developing the area. You will be responsible for leading the team, and the co-ordination of areas of the department, - Majors, Minors, Resus and Urgent Intervention.

We are looking for self-motivated nurses to help take the department forward - you must be committed, flexible and approachable with substantial ED nursing experience. The role includes unsocial hours including weekends and rotation onto nights.,

• 1st Level Registered Nurse
• Advanced Life Support Skill
• Manchester Triage / Initial Assessment Skill
Desirable criteria
• Diploma in Emergency Nursing or equivalent
• ATLS / TNCC/APLS
• Teaching / Assessing Qualification, Essential criteria
• Significant experience within an ED setting/or equivalent
• Proven development of own skills and clinical knowledge, Excellent written and verbal communication skills, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Our Emergency Department at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital provides care for both adults and children who attend with serious illness or injury. Due to our large catchment area, we currently provide for approximately 154,000 attendees per year. The department has an 8 bedded resuscitation and 43 major cubicles.
The department is classified as a trauma unit and we have a purpose built helipad onsite that will bring our most serious patients to the department via North West Air Ambulance. We have a new, state of the art staff facility for staff changing with access to a shower as well as a new staff room, education room and wellbeing retreat for all staff.