Sister / Charge Nurse

Job Overview

The Cardiology Department at Wexham Park Hospital consists of the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) which is a 14 bedded unit that has close links with our Cardiac Step-down Unit and Cardiac Catheter Laboratory (CCL).

Cardiology at Wexham Park Hospital now offers a 24 hour primary PCI service for all STEMI patients. We care for patients post coronary intervention, heart failure, arrhythmias and the capacity to cardiac monitor.

Main duties of the job

Cardiology services at Wexham Park Hospital are expanding making this post an exciting and dynamic opportunity.

As a sister/charge nurse, you should have strong interpersonal skills and a keen interest in caring for cardiac patients. You will work with the ward manager ensuring the team delivers high standards of patient care. You will also work with the practice development sister in the training and development of staff and be involved in raising the profile of the speciality.

You will need to show evidence of caring for cardiac patients together with appropriate knowledge and skills acquired in an acute cardiac environment, evidence of recent professional development and use of evidence based practice, these are all essential for the post.

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.

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
• Mentorship Course
  
  

Desirable criteria

• ALS provider
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience at Band 5 in Coronary care, and taking charge of a Unit
• Substantial experience of teaching and supervising junior staff
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good timekeeping and communication skills
• Self motivated with the ability to motivate others
• Awareness of current professional nursing issues
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Understanding the flexibility in shifts maybe required at times
  
  

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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