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Job summary

Main area
Critical Care
Grade
Band 6
Contract
12 months (Secondment or Fixed Term)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
287-ASUR-164-24
Employer
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Aintree University Hospital
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/11/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Sister/Charge Nurse - Critical Care

Band 6

Job overview

Sister/Charge Nurse
Band 6
Secondment/Fixed Term
37.5 Hours per week

We are pleased to be in a position to recruit highly motivated and energetic Sister/Charge Nurses who want to make a difference and join our Critical Care Team Nursing Team.  

Main duties of the job

You be required to demonstrate significant experience in a level 2/3 Critical Care environment and will have completed a post graduate Critical Care Course with evidence of outstanding clinical competency. We are looking for individuals with leadership potential and effective communication skills and able to demonstrate a proactive, collaborative and innovative approach to the clinical environment and passionate about excellence in patient care.

Our Department facilitates 26 adult beds (Level 2 and Level 3 capacity) and prides itself on being a friendly, cohesive and inclusive team supported by outstanding multidisciplinary staff.  We are extremely proud of the standards of care that we provide, as proved by our ICNARC data; CQC inspection’s, internal/external performance metrics and patient experience/family feedback. Our Research Team have taken us to a national stage and we are a significant contributor to The National Covid 19 Studies as well as many other valued trials.

Aintree Critical Care is the Regional Trauma Centre for Cheshire and Merseyside. We also provide Tertiary Care for MFU and Vascular specialities.

Informal visits are encouraged.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

  • Co-ordination of the unit in the absence of the manager including planning, allocation and evaluation of
    work carried out by teams or individuals and self.
  • Provide specialist knowledge to all Nursing staff on the Unit.
  • Will promote a critical, analytical approach to the delivery of nursing care ensuring that the ward
    environment is responsive to current issues.
  • In support of the unit manager will assist in the review and update of procedures and protocols relating
    to the care of patients.
  • Develop methods for identifying, maintaining and improving the quality of patient care through
    facilitation of best practice and clinical benchmarking.
  • Ensure due regard is given to the customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients/clients.
  • Responsible for the safe custody, checking and administration of drugs, including inotropes
  • Posses the clinical knowledge and skills to care for, unsupervised, a level 3 critically ill patient which will
    include the management of patients with multiple organ failure and complex nursing needs (see clinical
    skills section).
  • Explore and undertake expanded practice to optimise patient care as required, in accordance with unit
    and Trust policies

Management/Leadership Responsibilities

  • Exercise effective leadership acting as an exemplary role model for the unit team.
  • Support the manager in maintaining adequate staff cover and skill mix on the ward through effective use
    of staffing rotas.
  • Ensure effective communication with patients and their carers.
  • Liaise with nursing, medical and allied health professional colleagues to ensure that all facets of the
    patients` care are covered.
  • Ensure that the ward participates in maintaining standards relating to clinical governance.
  • Support the implementation of risk management policies within the unit, including the development of
    action plans to address identified risks.
  • Ensure effective communication with relatives, Trust staff and other hospitals to facilitate the smooth
    transfer and after-care of patients/clients.
  • In support of the unit manager ensures outcomes and action plans from patient complaints are
    implemented and monitored.
  • Ensure own and other staffs compliance with mandatory training and help maintain current records.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse, current NMC registration
  • Teaching and assessing qualification/equivalent
  • Post registration qualification in critical care / equivalent
  • 1 st level degree or equivalent

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of current nursing issues and clinical governance

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Application of evidence based practice
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to work in changing environments
  • Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of team leadership
  • Evidence of maintaining a clinical learning environment.
  • Evidence of developing high standards of patient care through clinical benchmarking
  • Evidence of working with pre and post registration students

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Employment Charter Status - Aspiring LevelNHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleInvestors in PeopleArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident committedStep into health

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Naomi Powell
Job title
Ward Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 529 6829
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