Sister / Charge Nurse

Are you an experienced critical care nurse ready to take the next step in your leadership journey? Do you have a passion for delivering outstanding patient care while supporting and developing a high-performing team? If so, The Royal Marsden’s Critical Care Unit wants to hear from you.

Why Join The Royal Marsden?

• A globally recognised centre of excellence in cancer care and research.
• A collaborative, innovative, and supportive team culture.
• Opportunities to grow, lead and shape the future of critical care nursing.
• Access to continuous education and specialist training.
• State-of-the-art facilities and a focus on delivering holistic, person-centred care.

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Make a difference where it matters most. Be a leader. Be a mentor. Be the future of critical care at The Royal Marsden.

Main duties of the job

As a Sister/Charge Nurse in our Critical Care Unit, you will play a key role in shaping patient outcomes and nursing practice. You’ll lead by example, providing strong clinical leadership while ensuring a safe, compassionate, and effective environment for patients, families, and staff.

Working closely with the Lead Nurse and multidisciplinary teams, you'll be responsible for coordinating patient care, managing resources, mentoring staff, and maintaining excellence in clinical governance. You'll have the autonomy to make real decisions and the support of one of the world’s leading cancer centres.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification:

• Manage a coordinated nursing service in liaison with the Matron and all members of the multi- disciplinary team maximising high quality patient care.
• To maintain clinical credibility through practice and to utilise the findings of nursing research and evidence-based care to optimise high quality patient care.
• To monitor and review nursing practice regularly, participating in audits which must include documentation in accordance with Trust policy and NMC Guidelines.
• To maintain the continuity of quality nursing care that responds flexibly to patients’ and carers’ needs and includes a safe transfer to relevant care setting. Work closely with and support team leaders, ensure appraisals are up to date within the team, provide guidance and mentorship for designated team leader.

Person specification

• Critical Care Qualification.
• Recognised mentoring and assessing qualification.
• First Degree.
• Higher Degree.
• Management Qualification.

Experience

• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Experience of dealing with HR issues relating to performance/capability.
• Experience in staff appraisal and development planes.
• Experience in organising and delivering education within clinical setting.
• Demonstrate clear ability and responsibility for creating a dynamic learning environment.
• Experience in a senior clinical role.
• Experience of clinical governance and investigation of complains and incidents.

Skills/knowledge/abilities

• Critical care skills.
• Excellent communication skills with particular ability to liaise effectively with multi-disciplinary team members.
• Evidence of good leadership qualities including delegation and co-ordination of teams.
• Ability to innovate and manage change.
• Evidence of commitment to customer care initiatives and incorporation of cultural values into practice.
• Evidence of good understanding of NHS reforms and the contracting process including those affecting cancer and critical care services.
• Ability to manage conflict situations.
• Evidence of good management practice.

Special aptitudes and disposition

• Commitment to personal and professional development

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Please ensure your information is accurate to avoid errors with processing your application

All applicants will be contacted by email to the address supplied on your application. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.

Flu Vaccination – What We Expect of our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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