Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Rehabilitation
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 150-CP1457-UPC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lewes Intermediate Care Unit
- Town
- Lewes
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Ward Sister/Charge Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
We are looking for an inspiring individual to join our team at The Lewes Intermediate Care Service as a Ward Sister/Charge Nurse Band 6.
Lewes Intermediate Care is a 26 bedded unit. The unit is very friendly and welcoming with a great multidisciplinary team who work together with patients and their relatives/carers to support rehabilitations and safe discharges to the most appropriate location for them.
Please note that the unit runs a 24 hour service so internal rotation is required.
Main duties of the job
The role of the ward sister/charge nurse is varied and a great development opportunity within a stand alone unit. You will support the Ward Manager with staff management, incident management, patient flow and roster management. You will provide clinical expertise and visible leadership whilst helping to create a positive patient experience.
We welcome applications from already experienced Band 6's or experienced Band 5's seeking development.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care with MDT
colleagues to help ensure patients meet their rehabilitation potential.
Empower patients to work as partners in their care, respecting individual
choice and difference and encouraging self-care where able.
Identify significant change in patients’ physical, psychological and social
status acting on findings, seeking guidance and/or reporting to the appropriate member of the multi-disciplinary team as well as the ward manager.
Please see job description and person spec attached.
Person specification
Qualifications/Professional registration
Essential criteria
- Adult registered nurse qualification – NMC
- Evidence of a range of clinical competencies
- Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of post-registration development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Years experience at staff nurse level
- Relevant experience in an acute trust setting
- Experience in complex discharge planning and transfers of care
Desirable criteria
- Recent experience in an in-patient rehabilitation/ elderly care setting
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
- Knowledge of current local policies informing community health and social care services
- Able to promote independence and choice in undertaking patient care
- IT literate
- Clear knowledge of clinical governance, professional codes of conduct and Trust policies
- Clinical Supervision skills
- Advanced communication and negotiation skills
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate ability to reflect and learn from situations with a commitment to professional learning and development
- Clear examples of co-operative team working
- Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
- Demonstrates a high level of understanding of self and is able to identify personal limitations and shows openness to addressing them
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Zena Sale
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01273666493
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