Job summary
- Main area
- Acute medicine
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 32 hours per week
- Job ref
- 236-SCO-NM398-24
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salford Care Organisation
- Town
- Salford
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Ward Sister/ Charge Nurse - Ward L7 Acute Medicine
Band 6
Job overview
Sister's post/ charge nurse post on ward L7.
L7 is an acute medical ward, we are looking for a forward thinking dynamic nurse who has strong leadership skills to work within our team.
The successful applicant will need to have years post registration experience. They will need to be able to work calmly under pressure and lead a team and deputies' in the absence of the ward manager.
With this exciting opportunity we are looking for an energetic Nurse to rise to the challenge in this service.
We offer:
- Varied caseload / diagnosis
- Opportunities to supervise staff / students
- Utilise leadership skills
- Variety of settings to treat patients
- Effective team working
- Service development opportunities
- Quality Improvement projects
We are looking for:
- Experience in medicine, with relevant Acute experience
- Awareness of National Standards / Guidelines to the area
- Autonomous decision making
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Highly effective communication - with staff, patients, wider networks
- Good team worker
- Able to demonstrate initiative
- Strong MDT skills
- IT skills applicable to the role
Main duties of the job
L7 is an acute general medical ward at SRFT. We are a 24 bedded ward, specialising in acute general medicine, diabetes and endocrine disorders. The ward has patients with a variety of clinical presentations and conditions, ranging from respiratory, gastrointestinal, and cardiology conditions, with patients usually being admitted directly from our Emergency Assessment Unit.
Are you an experienced Registered Nurse that is ready for the next step in your career? If so we would like to hear from you.
We are looking for a Band 6 Nurse Practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team. We have excellent support links from the Integrated Care Division management team
You must be able to motivate staff to achieve high standards of care, and possess excellent communication skills to ensure that the aims of the Trust are achieved.
If successful we can offer you support in developing your leadership and management skills to enable you to support the Ward manager and staff to deliver high quality care in line with the Trusts philosophy of Safe, Clean and Personal Care.
Applicants are welcome from all nursing specialities.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months.
The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ people representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We continually review our recruitment processes to ensure they are supporting us achieving an inclusive and representative team.
Person specification
qualification
Essential criteria
- Grade achieved
- NMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Experience in acute medicine
experience
Essential criteria
- Experience
Desirable criteria
- Exeperience of Mentoring Nursing students and Nurse Associates
- Previous Band 6 Experience
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katherine Pendlebury
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 206 1984
- Additional information
Jennifer Courbet - Lead Nurse 0161 206 6255
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