Band 6 Registered Nurse Bletchley

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.

Main duties of the job:

• 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.

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 escalating concerns when necessary.
• Escalating safety concerns and 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 patients and families in all stages of the care planning process including assessing risks and needs.
• Completing Continuing Healthcare (CHC) checklists with our patients and participating in the Decision Support Tool (DST) assessment.
• Acting as patient advocates in the multi-disciplinary team and overseeing the work of others to ensure that they are also responding to the needs of patients and providing clinically effective care.

Band 6 nurses contribute to the people using our services feeling respected and empowered to make decisions about their health and wellbeing by:

• Working in partnership with patients and their families and carers.
• Gaining consent and, as far as possible, involving people in all decision making.
• Signposting patients and carers to the courses provided by the Recovery and Wellbeing College or services provided by the local authority or voluntary sector.
• Reassuring people by being professional, responsive, knowledgeable and confident.
• Demonstrating clinical leadership and challenging any poor behaviour to patients, families or other staff members and creating a positive, inclusive culture in which everyone is treated with kindness and respect.
• Responding to complaints or concerns effectively and quickly in line with the Trust policy.

Person Specification:

Qualifications

• Essential: RN Adult on NMC Register, Evidence of CPD.
• Desirable: Practice Assessor qualification, Leadership Education.

Experience

• Essential: Previous experience as a Band 5 nurse, including shift co-ordinating.
• Desirable: Previous experience as a Band 6 nurse.

Skills

• Essential: Communication with Multi-disciplinary team, Face to Face, written, telephone and verbal communication.
• Genuine interest in care of older person/intermediate care.
• Ability to work well and lead others while under pressure.
• Sound clinical assessment skills.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.