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Job summary

Main area
Critical Care
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Internal rotation)
Job ref
220-WHT-2145
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whittington Health
Town
London
Salary
£42,471 - £50,364 per annum Including HCAs
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/05/2024 23:59

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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. 

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

 


 

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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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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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