Emergency Department Sister/ Charge Nurse Weston-Super-Mare

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the senior nursing team within the Emergency Department at Weston General Hospital.

Our Emergency Department provides care to a diverse patient population and is a fast-paced, dynamic environment where strong clinical leadership, effective decision-making and excellent teamwork are essential.

Working closely with the ED Matron, senior nursing team and Emergency Medicine Consultants, the Sister/Charge Nurse will play a key role in delivering safe, effective and high-quality patient-centred care.

You will provide visible leadership to the nursing workforce, maintaining oversight of the department and supporting the team to deliver safe and efficient care throughout the patient journey.

We are looking for an experienced Emergency Department nurse with strong leadership qualities, excellent assessment and clinical decision-making skills, and the ability to remain calm and solution-focused in a busy environment.

If you are passionate about emergency nursing, developing and supporting others, and improving the experience of both patients and staff, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring safety checks are completed
• Maintaining standards through audits
• Ensuring safe staffing of the emergency department
• Clinically assessing to help identify sick and deteriorating patients
• ensuring sepsis targets are met
• Providing clinical support to staff on duty
• Maintaining oversight of all areas of the emergency department
• Ensure clear communication within the department and externally with patient flow
• Support with clinical emergencies
• Ensure patients have plans and facilitate flow

About us

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Job responsibilities

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description.

Person Specification

Aptitudes

• Supportive
• Respectful
• Innovative
• Collaborative

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Advanced clinical knowledge and understanding of current evidence-based practice within urgent and emergency care
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively in sensitive, challenging or conflict situations
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance, patient safety, safeguarding, risk management and professional accountability
• Ability to use audit, incident data, patient/staff feedback and performance information to identify and support improvements in care
• Understanding of people-management responsibilities including appraisal, performance, attendance, wellbeing and staff development
• Ability to support quality improvement and implement changes to clinical practice and service delivery
• Competent in the use of relevant clinical and digital information systems

Experience

• Significant post-registration experience within urgent and emergency care, demonstrating the breadth and depth of experience required to undertake a senior ED nursing leadership role
• Significant experience of clinical leadership and coordinating care within a busy acute or emergency clinical environment
• Experience of managing complex clinical situations and supporting the care of deteriorating and critically unwell patients
• Experience of leading, supervising and developing nursing staff and/or multidisciplinary teams
• Experience of managing staffing and operational pressures, including prioritising resources according to clinical need and patient safety
• Experience of contributing to clinical governance, audit, incident review, quality improvement or service development
• Experience of supporting staff development through supervision, coaching, teaching, appraisal or other developmental activity

Desirable

• Experience of contributing to research, evaluation or evidence-based practice development
• Experience of leading or implementing significant service improvement or change within urgent and emergency care
• Experience of formal people-management processes such as recruitment, attendance management, performance management or capability processes

Qualifications and Training

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Degree in Nursing or relevant health-related subject, or equivalent level of knowledge and experience
• Evidence of relevant continuing professional development appropriate to emergency nursing and clinical leadership
• Post-registration qualification relevant to urgent and emergency care
• Teaching, assessing, coaching or practice education qualification
• Evidence of postgraduate/Master's level study or willingness to undertake relevant postgraduate development

Desirable

• Leadership or management qualification, or evidence of formal leadership development
• Non-Medical Prescribing qualification

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.