Job summary
- Main area
- Infection & Inflammation
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-C-257001
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division C
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/01/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/01/2025
Employer heading
Senior Sister/Senior Charge Nurse - Ward N2 Infection & Inflammation
Band 7
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated nurse with excellent leadership and management skills and high standards of quality to join our team on Ward N2 as a Senior Sister/Senior Charge Nurse.
N2 is a 22 bed Ward that is all siderooms. We specialise in caring for patients who have Respiratory and Gastroenterology Infections who require to be barrier nursed.
You must be an experienced individual who is able to work with a large multidisciplinary team to promote change, high quality patient care and effective patient flow.
Main duties of the job
You will lead and co-ordinate a multidisciplinary team to ensure an optimum level of safe and effective patient care within budgetary resources.You will be required to assess care needs, to develop, to implement and evaluate programmes of care.
You will be responsible for all aspects of staff management and recruitment in line with HR policy. You will be required to participate in Divisional bleep holder rotas which entails a late shift and weekend shift.
You will be a visible presence in the ward area and be responsible for all aspects of clinical governance and management within the ward area.
Working for our organisation
Come Nurse with us…
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
If you require sponsorship for a Visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check you are not applying from a Red list country - Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
This vacancy will close at midnight on 12 January 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 23 January 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current and relevant registration on NMC Register
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
- Mentorship training
Desirable criteria
- Relevant postgraduate qualification
- Recent attendance on a leadership development programme
- Educated to degree level
- Additional clinical qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing a ward/unit
- Success in working collaboratively across professions and services
- Demonstrable understanding of managing change
- Introduced evidence based practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Respiratory and Gastroenterology Nursing.
- Experience in Infection Control
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical practice and demonstrable knowledge of developments in nursing policy and practice
- Clinical governance
- Principles of lifelong learning
- Workforce planning, recruitment and retention
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of ward management.
- Knowledge of Respiratory and Gastroenteroloy Medicine
- Knowledge of Infection Control
- ILS trained
- Complex Discharge Planning
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead, motivate and empower others
- Highly developed communications skills
- Inter-personal skills
- Computer literacy
- Ability to prioritise work, meet tight deadlines and work independently
- Positive and effective team worker
Desirable criteria
- Negotiation skills
- Writing and presentation skills
- Budget management experience
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Waller
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07926 071501
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