Job overview

Clinical Sister / Charge Nurse - Emergency Department

Division: Medicine and Emergency Care

Care Group: Emergency and Acute

Band: 6 

Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per annum/pro rata

Interview date: To be confirmed

• Are you an experienced ED nurse, or have experience in another specialist area and looking for an increasingly challenging role?
•  Do you have the necessary post graduate qualification and senior experience in another field?   
• Would you like to work as part of our award winning team?
• Do you want to take your professional development and career to the next level?
• Are you committed to delivering the best of care through the best of people?

If you have answered yes:

Apply to join the great Emergency Nursing team at Medway ED.

Main duties of the job

We are committed to ensuring that we have the right staff with the right skills, to effectively manage the care of patients attending our ED so investing in your development is crucial to our strategy.

We currently see over 120,000 Type 1 patients per year, or up to 120 ambulance arrivals per day and also see major trauma. 

We have our sights on becoming a leading Emergency Department and to achieve this aim we are increasing our workforce and continuing to invest in their professional development.

Emergency Nursing is an exciting and rewarding career; at Medway we offer a support and development package that has received national acknowledgement and won two national awards. Working in a modern ED can be stressful and challenging; you will be to be resilient and hard working. 

We provide a comprehensive package of learning and development opportunities and as a senior member of our team you will be able to influence patient care and support our junior nurses to progress their careers.

Working for us opens a world of opportunity, if you would like to discuss a career with us, please contact Tracey Croft [email protected] Lead Practice Development Nurse for further information or to arrange an informal visit.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B – Bold

E – Every person counts

S – Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.