Job summary
Employer heading
Critical Care Senior Staff Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Covid-19 Vaccination
Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
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Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge to build on your critical care nursing skills?
The Critical Care Unit is a 10-bedded state of the art unit with the latest in monitoring and diagnostic equipment catering for a variety of level 2 and level 3 patients.
We have vacancies for enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and motivated Band 6 Staff Nurses to join our team. If you have a caring and compassionate approach to your work and patients, and want to join a motivated, friendly, and supportive team, we are keen to hear from you.
Requirements for application include:
- NMC registration
- 6 months post critical care qualification experience within the last 18 months.
- Desire to succeed in a busy, challenging, and exciting environment
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development of programmes of care and their implementation and evaluation.
The post holder is also expected to carry out all relevant forms of care without direct supervision, and will be required to demonstrate procedures to, and supervise qualified and unqualified staff.
The post holder will contribute to the overall good of the organisation by being a positive role model and to treat all staff, visitors and service users with courtesy.
The post holder will undertake internal rotation to cover the service.
It is expected that the post holder will be able to carry out all of the duties listed in the main duty section below. The duties will vary from ward to ward and they may carry out other similar duties in support of the ward environment that are not listed. No duties are to be undertaken by the post holder unless they have received the appropriate training.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The band 6 senior staff nurse role comes with added responsibility of supporting ant teaching junior staff. Also you will be expected to support the senior team to ensure the safe and effective running of the critical care unit. Please refer to full job description available for further information.
Person specification
desirable
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of qualification in mentoring or preceptorship.
Essential
Essential criteria
- 6 months post critical care qualification experience within critical care
- 18 months critical care experience
- Experience of utilising evidence based practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience of quality improvement and auditing
essential
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to work to meet the changing needs of the NHS
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zoe Broadhead
- Job title
- ITU Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02072885470
- Additional information
You may also contact Kathleen Conneally (SPDN) on 02072885470
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