Senior Sister​/Charge Nurse - Emergency Department | Health NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Sister/Charge Nurse - Emergency Department | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Our Emergency Department at Frimley Park Hospital is committed to delivering the highest professional standards and exceptional patient care. Each year, the department treats over 100,000 patients across its dedicated paediatric, adult, and minor injuries units.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and forward-thinking team of emergency nursing and medical professionals.

We are seeking motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced healthcare professionals to take on managerial roles within the department. Successful candidates will play a key role in leading and managing the delivery of high-quality emergency care, ensuring safe, effective, and patient-centred services.

• Ensure quality service is delivered when taking charge of the department and providing a supportive role to other units within the department.
• Participate in the management of the unit and offer support to the department matron.
• Maintain effective liaison with other disciplines in all matters of patient care delivery. Providing advice within own clinical sphere of nursing.
• Perform extended clinical skills, including plastering, suturing, defibrillation, intravenous cannulation, phlebotomy, and administration of intravenous therapy.
• Be fully conversant with the Major Disaster Plan, including the Chemical Decontamination Policy, and assist the Unit Manager in its implementation during emergencies.
• Assume responsibility for own professional development and growth producing evidence at appraisal to meet key performance standard recommendations.

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

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