Band 6 Ward Sister​/Charge Nurse

Job Overview

This is an exciting position that has come available to enable Professional Development for a Band 5 RN who is wanting to expand their professional career in Junior Ward Management.

The role enables a close working relationship with the Ward Sisters, Ward Manager & Ward Matron to enable the unit to operate safely and effectively, maintaining the patient's experience to be the best that we can deliver upon their admission.

Working within the unit's MDT will allow the candidate to build upon their leadership skills and empower them to delegate a unit of 22 patients and 39 members of staff through learning aspects of the unit such as Healthroster, Datix reporting, incident reporting, safer staffing allocation, nurse in charge, complaints procedure, patient satisfaction and outcome.

Working alongside the Ward Sisters, Ward Manager & Ward Matron to deliver a good experience to the patients, their carers & families.

Acting as the patients advocate and supporting with MCA, DOLS, safeguarding & the patients health & wellbeing.

Supporting and educating your peers, students, new recruits and visitors by utilising your professional standards inline with the NMC & Trust values.

Delegating duties to your team to enable all areas of care to be met for the patients, speaking with patients/families/carers and utilising the triangle of care where appropriate.

• Registered nurse Adult
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development

• Inpatient setting experience
• Frailty experience
• Mentorship qualification

• Leadership skills
• Band 5 experience

• Able to work on own initiative

• Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
• Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
• Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way that empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
• Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals

• Leadership course

• Patient advocate
• Skills with de‑escalating concerns/issues
• Being flexible in a ward environment 24‑hour cover

• Able to communicate with the multi‑disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face‑to‑face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
• Able to handover verbally using SBAR
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
• Able to maintain electronic patient records and use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing
• Expected to have the skills required to act as a professional, registered nurse and adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct
• Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
• Empowering and working in partnership
• Safeguarding and advocacy
• Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impact on their work and the people they are working with
• Understanding how the Mental Health Act impacts on their work and the people they are working with
• Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
• Infection control and aseptic non‑touch technique
• Manual handling patients
• Obtaining consent
• Medicines management and administration
• Clinical skills: wound management, catheter care, phlebotomy & cannulation, bloods analysis, stoma care, tissue viability skills, observation skills – NEWS escalation, medical interpretation, recognition & escalation of a deteriorating patient, manual handling – hoist, Sara steady bladder scanning, Baxter pumps – IV medications/fluids
• Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
• Coordinate work allocation and shifts (if appropriate)
• Help others in the team achieve their objectives and deliver safe, effective care
• Mentor, teach and support others in the team

• DOLS referrals experience
• MCA assessment experience
• Safeguarding referrals experience
• Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
• Supervision, line management and appraisal training
• HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing sickness absence