Band 6 Registered Nurse

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Join Our Team as a Band 6 Nurse!

Are you an experienced and compassionate nurse ready to take the next step in your career? As a Band 6 Nurse within inpatient intermediate care, you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care while leading and supporting your team. You'll use your clinical expertise to ensure patient safety, advocate for those in your care, and contribute to continuous improvement within our services.

You'll work as Nurse in Charge and alongside a collaborative, supportive team, empowering patients and their families, and promoting a positive, inclusive culture.

We're looking for confident, dedicated professionals to lead by example, supervise staff, and help us meet the highest standards of care. If you're ready to make a difference and develop your leadership skills, we want to hear from you!

Interview: to be held at CNWL Trust Headquarters, Charles Pinfold Building, Open University Campus, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA

The purpose of the Band 6 Sister/ Charge Nurse is to play a pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality care. You will use clinical judgment and risk assessments to keep patients safe, advocate for patient well-being, and bring up concerns when necessary. As an experienced practitioner, you will take responsibility for providing skilled, evidence-based care and overseeing less experienced staff.

You will work collaboratively with patients, families, and carers, empowering them to make informed decisions about their health while maintaining a respectful and inclusive environment. It is the role of the Band 6 nurse to also contribute to team effectiveness by promoting continuous improvement, conducting audits, and ensuring compliance with Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards. You will provide leadership by supervising and appraising staff, supporting professional development, and stepping in for senior staff when required.

Overall, you will ensure that patient care is safe, compassionate, and continuously improved, while fostering a positive team culture and upholding the trust's values in this role.

We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care.

WICU is an experienced team of Nurses and AHPs. The team also works with our Advanced Practitioner, Assistant Psychologist, Pharmacist, Activity Co-ordinator, GP and many other professionals. We are a welcoming and friendly environment. Our staff have access to a wide variety of opportunities to develop and advance their careers, including study time and apprenticeships.

We work hard at WICU! It is a busy ward that strives to deliver the best person‑centred and holistic care. We make time to go above and beyond where we can and the feedback that we have from relatives and service users reflects this.

Band 6 nurses contribute to the provision of safe and reliable services by:

• Using their clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible
• Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalare concerns when necessary
• Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
• Being able to recognise and respond to the deteriorating patient, completing an A-E assessment and if required escalating to the most appropriate service in line with our local operating procedure
• Being open and transparent about their own practice
• Supervising the work of others
• Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made
• Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement
• Maintaining accurate, legible, comprehensive records
• Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements.

Band 6 nurses often work with people who have complex needs and contribute to the effectiveness of services by:

• Being confident, experienced practitioners who take responsibility for the care they give to patients but also take responsibility for overseeing the work of others in the team including less experienced nurses and staff without a professional qualification
• Providing skilled, evidence-based nursing care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures
• Working with…