Sister/Charge Nurse - Critical Care

Job overview

1. 5 Hours per week

We are pleased to be in a position to recruit highly motivated and energetic Sister/Charge Nurses who want to make a difference and join our Critical Care Team Nursing Team.

Main duties of the job

You be required to demonstrate significant experience in a level 2/3 Critical Care environment and will have completed a post graduate Critical Care Course with evidence of outstanding clinical competency. We are looking for individuals with leadership potential and effective communication skills and able to demonstrate a proactive, collaborative and innovative approach to the clinical environment and passionate about excellence in patient care.

Our Research Team have taken us to a national stage and we are a significant contributor to The National Covid 19 Studies as well as many other valued trials.

Aintree Critical Care is the Regional Trauma Centre for Cheshire and Merseyside. We also provide Tertiary Care for MFU and Vascular specialities.

Informal visits are encouraged.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Co-ordination of the unit in the absence of the manager including planning, allocation and evaluation of

• Provide specialist knowledge to all Nursing staff on the Unit.
• Will promote a critical, analytical approach to the delivery of nursing care ensuring that the ward

• In support of the unit manager will assist in the review and update of procedures and protocols relating

• Develop methods for identifying, maintaining and improving the quality of patient care through

• Ensure due regard is given to the customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients/clients.
• Responsible for the safe custody, checking and administration of drugs, including inotropes
• Posses the clinical knowledge and skills to care for, unsupervised, a level 3 critically ill patient which will

• Explore and undertake expanded practice to optimise patient care as required, in accordance with unit

and Trust policies

• Exercise effective leadership acting as an exemplary role model for the unit team.
• Support the manager in maintaining adequate staff cover and skill mix on the ward through effective use

• Ensure effective communication with patients and their carers.
• Liaise with nursing, medical and allied health professional colleagues to ensure that all facets of the

• Ensure that the ward participates in maintaining standards relating to clinical governance.
• Support the implementation of risk management policies within the unit, including the development of

• Ensure effective communication with relatives, Trust staff and other hospitals to facilitate the smooth

• In support of the unit manager ensures outcomes and action plans from patient complaints are

• Ensure own and other staffs compliance with mandatory training and help maintain current records.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, current NMC registration
• Teaching and assessing qualification/equivalent
• Post registration qualification in critical care / equivalent
• 1 st level degree or equivalent

Knowledge

• Knowledge of current nursing issues and clinical governance

Skills

• Application of evidence based practice
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work in changing environments
• Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing

Experience

• Evidence of team leadership
• Evidence of maintaining a clinical learning environment.
• Evidence of developing high standards of patient care through clinical benchmarking
• Evidence of working with pre and post registration students

Other

• Supportive of colleagues
• Well-motivated
• High level of personal and professional credibility
• Committed to high standards of patient care

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18^th birthday.

Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.