Junior Sister Slough, Berkshire, South East England, England
Job description
We are looking to appoint a Band 6 Junior Sister to join our team of Junior sisters/charge nurses to support the Band 7 Senior Sister for Ward 24. Your main role will be to lead and develop the staff groups and care delivery in the two distinct areas - Inpatients/HDU and PAU/Day Unit.
This will be a permanent position which will be reviewed as part of the Paediatric and Frimley Health Nursing Structure
To support the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in leading the nursing team, ensuring that high standards are met and maintained for all children and their families.
To support the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse with ensuring ward ethos reflects the trust values, and assist with the delivery of patient safety, a good patient experience and effective running of the ward/department.
To work as part of a team of nurses, nursery nurses, and support workers ensuring the assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating of nursing care for all children is carried out to the highest standard.
Your main role will be to lead and develop the staff groups and care delivery in the two distinct areas - Inpatients/HDU and PAU/Day Unit.
- To act as a credible clinical role model
- To undertake operational duties to maintain efficiency and patient safety
- To deliver and audit Trust and national standards
- To support and provide leadership for nursing teams
- To act as a mentor and assist on the induction of new staff and students, providing supervision where appropriate
- To participate in recruitment and selection of new staff.
- To co-ordinate the team/ward in absence of the Sister.
- To be aware of the complaints procedure and to deal with first level complaints as necessary.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our threecore values, and the behaviors 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.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
To support the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in leading the nursing team, ensuring that high standards are met and maintained for all children and their families.
To support the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse with ensuring ward ethos reflects the trust values, and assist with the delivery of patient safety, a good patient experience and effective running of the ward/department.
To work as part of a team of nurses, nursery nurses, and support workers ensuring the assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating of nursing care for all children is carried out to the highest standard.
