Sister​/Charge nurse

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This role is for a full time Band 6 Sister / Charge Nurse within the busy Urology Outpatients Nursing team. Are you looking for a change or an opportunity to shine and show your potential as a future leader in nursing care? Are you passionate about urology patients and their care? Are you an experienced Band 5 or Band 6 nurse with experience in leading a team and recent urology or surgery experience?

This is the role for you! You will be working with another band 6 nurse and Band 7 nurse to lead the urology outpatient team, liaise with multidisciplinary team, support research, ensure high quality patient care. Provide direct patient care in nurse led clinics.

• Responsible for daily running of department
• Managing staff
• Providing training to junior members of the team, students, external meetings
• Completion of training for additional skills required in the department
• Managing difficult situations relating to patients and visitors
• Radar / Complaints
• Liaise with Multidisciplinary team,
• Support the Senior Sister
• Completing audits
• E Rostering and daily staff allocation
• Completing appraisals
• Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care needs provided by self and others in the care team. Provide supervision of less experienced staff or Health Care Support Workers carrying out these duties.
• Undertake nurse led clinics and support clinician led clinics

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building  are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

• Take personal responsibility for the nursing care of patients in the clinical setting.
• Ensure changes, advice, day-to-day activity and tests are documented contemporaneously, giving a clear profile of care received during a patient's visit to the care setting.
• Plan, allocate, supervise and evaluate working practices of the team on a day-to-day basis.
• Provide professional advice and support to team members so that they are able to assume responsibility to carry out delegated duties.
• Facilitate and maintain clinical competence/skills of self and others in day-to-day working practices.
• Assist the Supervisory Sisters to ensure clinical competence/skills of members of the nursing team meet the requirements of Trust Policies and Procedures, and are measurable against benchmarking standards.
• Undertake additional nursing tasks, relevant to clinical area and specialism.
• Ensure all members of the multi-disciplinary team are aware as changes occur.
• Compliance with all infection control policies and procedures will form an integral part of the practice of all staff involved in direct patient care.
• Clinical staff will seek support and advice from infection control in all instances where cross infection is likely to have occurred or when managing situation involving patients with infections where guidance provided in the policies is not applicable.
• All staff will contact occupational health if they are suffering from any form of infection which may put patients and other staff at risk.

• Contribute to the development of speciality specific clinical protocols and guidelines.

• Assist Supervisory…