Job summary
- Main area
- Head and Neck
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-7790-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Hallamshire Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/07/2024
Employer heading
Senior Sister/Charge Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we will take care of you. We offer many ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems.
Is providing excellent patient care and getting the basics right one of your key drivers? Do you love developing others to become excellent at what they do? Is making a difference and doing the right thing fundamental to you? If your answer to these questions is yes, then this role may be right for you.
Main duties of the job
Excellent Sisters & Charge Nurses have a strong sense of ownership of their departments and love to be in charge to ensure an efficient, positive working environment with very clear patient focus. They’re honest and straightforward and they have high standards. They thrive on the busy nature of the role, they love being on top of things, they have a lot of drive and they keep going when things are tough. They ensure clinical quality standards are achieved by providing inspirational and visible clinical leadership.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to develop your career within our Neuro Critical care unit at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. The department has capacity for 21 Critical care beds providing top quality, modern facilities for the management of Neuro surgical and Neuro medical patients via elective and emergency pathways, enabling our multidisciplinary teams to work together to provide a high standard of care for patients .
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
As one of the largest NHS Trusts we also offer some fantastic staff benefits including:
- Friendly teams
- A pension that we also pay into for you
- Flexible working
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Loads of discounts at national and local shops/services
- Career development and training opportunities
- On-site childcare
- Free health and wellbeing support
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN Level one
- NMC registered
- To have completed the national PEAP programme for practice supervisors or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification.
- First degree or evidence of working towards one (demonstrating graduate attributes)
- Continuous professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Completion of recognised accredited ICU course modules
- Extensive experience at Band 6 in a critical care setting
- Ability to lead, motivate and develop a professional team
- Demonstration of involvement in unit developments, undertaking specific responsibilities within NCCU
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience deputising for Senior Sister / Charge Nurse
- Extensive experience at band 6 in Neuro Critical care
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of relevant post basic training and continuous professional development
- Ability to communicate effectively including active listening, writing, and verbally, with individuals on a one-to-one basis, with groups, and the Multidisciplinary Team
- Good understanding of the national strategic context of the NHS
- Excellent performance management skills.
- Highly developed leadership skills with excellent interpersonal skills – ability to form positive relationships at all levels.
- Ability to manage own and others complex workloads under pressure and prioritise to meet deadlines
- Persuasion and influencing skills – ability to present ideas and proposals effectively.
- Ability to work flexibly to cover the needs of the service Inc. on-call, evenings and weekends.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Integrity Cares about and knows the importance of doing the right thing and making a difference. Possesses a straight talking and honest, whilst being diplomatic, communication style.
- Ownership Loves being accountable and taking full responsibility for the running of their area. Driven to get things done to ensure that both they and their team achieve. Sets very high standards for themselves, their team and ward.
- Delivery Love to be in control and on top of everything that is going on in their area. Likes to be ‘hands on’ in the delivery of patient care within their department. Thrives on having lots going on and rise to the challenge of constantly switching between different activities and issues. Possesses a ‘can do’ approach to problems and will keep going when things are tough.
- Relating Gets a buzz out of developing others and takes great satisfaction from seeing their staff achieve and progress. Pick up on other people’s needs sensing when something is wrong. Good at explaining things in simple and straightforward ways that others find easy to understand.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Deborah Hewitt-Clarke
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2713610
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