Senior Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Are you an experienced band 5 nurse or already a band 6 nurse, looking for a new challenge? If so, we have an exciting new opportunity for a committed, motivated and clinically expert surgical nurse to join our team as a Charge Nurse on Valentine Ellis ward. We are offering a Fixed term Secondment post.

Valentine Ellis Ward is a very fast-paced 23-bedded acute Trauma, Orthopaedic and Plastics Ward. We work closely with our Major Trauma Centre, so we also facilitate patient flow for stepdown of Major Trauma, spinal trauma and non-trauma neuro patients.

As a Band 6 Charge Nurse, you will play a crucial role in delivering expert clinical care, leading and managing the nursing team, and ensuring the highest standards of patient care. You will be responsible for providing clinical leadership, supporting and supervising the nursing staff, and coordinating patient care to ensure a holistic and multidisciplinary approach. This post is pivotal in providing visible nursing leadership within a multi-professional team. The post holder must be a good team leader who is willing to assist and deputise for the Ward Matron when required. You will need to have excellent communication and negotiation skills as you will be working in collaboration with the wider MDT.

We are committed to developing and supporting our nurses on Valentine Ellis ward and you will be supported every step of your career pathway including your leadership. Our focus is on developing the nursing leaders of the future. We offer strong support networks for mentorship and professional development to ensure you get the very best from your career with us. It's a chance to develop your skills as part of a highly capable and motivated team where you're guaranteed opportunities to learn and develop.

If you are interested in joining our team and sharing our vision to provide kind, collaborative, safe, high-quality care to our Trauma, Orthopaedic and Plastic patients throughout their journey with us then please do apply.

Main duties of the job

• To provide high quality, effective, individualised care to all patients that is compassionate and caring.
• To assess care needs and develop, implement and evaluate them without supervision
• You will be expected to lead the ward on a day-to-day basis in the absence of the Ward Matron, maintaining high level of nursing standards.
• To assist in leading and monitoring the performance of the nursing team
• To deputise for the Matron when required
• Be responsible for the safety and cleanliness of the clinical environment.
• Champion a culture of learning and quality improvement in the clinical area.
• You will need to adhere to the Trust's Core Values and behaviours and encourage this in all other staff members.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse
• Teaching Qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• Relevant specialist course or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• A minimum of 2 years post registration experience
• Evidence of positive involvement in staff educational/training provision in ward environment i.e. mentorship

Desirable criteria

• Experience of leading and developing a team
• Knowledge of quality, standard setting, benchmarking and audit.
• Experience of providing teaching sessions

Skills/knowledge/ abilities

Essential criteria

• Teaching
• Ability to organise ward activities and to use initiative
• Competency in medication administration including IV medications
• Knowledge of the NMC Code of Conduct
• Basic IT skills

Desirable criteria

• Quality improvement

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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

• Job description (PDF, 491.9KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)