Junior Sister/Charge Nurse - MADU

Job Overview

We have an exciting development opportunity for a qualified nurse to join our busy MADU team. We are looking for a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to join our Medical Acute Dependency Unit (MADU).

MADU is a 16 bedded unit and has facilities for full cardiac monitoring and non-invasive ventilation. We provide level one and level two care to patients with a variety of conditions from GI bleeds, DKA, type 1 and type 2 respiratory failure requiring non-invasive ventilation, heart failure, severe electrolyte imbalance, central lines and arterial lines monitoring, amongst others.

We Are Looking To Appoint a Dynamic Individual With

• strong interpersonal skills
• experience in Respiratory, Acute Medicine, ED and or HDU/ITU Nursing
• some managerial and team leader experience
• enthusiasm for caring for acutely ill medical patients.
  
  

Are you ready for this exciting opportunity? Are you ready for a new challenge in your own development and career?

If so, apply now!

Main duties of the job

In partnership with senior multi professional colleagues, maintain and develop a flexible high dependency service that is able to respond to trust requirements.

To be responsible for the development and leadership of the clinical nursing team to ensure the highest standard of care is met in line with local and national recommendations.

To take leadership of the responsibility for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care within the nursing team on a shift-to-shift basis, responding in an advisory capacity to acute changes in patient condition.

To act as a credible clinical role model promoting a patient-centred approach to care, demonstrating advanced clinical practice skills and theoretical knowledge in caring for the complex needs of the critically ill patient.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current NMC registration.
• ENB 998 Teaching and assessing course or equivalent Mentorship preparation course.
• ILS
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Degree level registration
• ALS
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult / stressful situations
• Able to prioritise workload (self and others) and meet deadlines
• Leadership and influencing skills
• Time management and delegation skills
• Awareness of current professional nursing issues
• Ability to adapt to change within the working environment
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Able to work flexible shifts, weekends and bank holidays as required
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in an HDU environment with experience of caring for patients requiring NIV
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Degree level registration
• ALS
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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