Clinical Sister / Charge Nurse - NICU
Job overview
Clinical Sister / Charge Nurse - Neonatal ICU
Division: Women, Children & Young PeopleCare Group: Women's & Children's
Band: 6
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum/pro rata
Please note that any applicants who hold a Specialist Neonatal Qualification will also receive an RNR payment of £1500 per annum/pro rata
We are recruiting for an Clinical Sister / Charge Nurse who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
As a Clinical Sister/Charge Nurse you will ensure that you are committed to contributing to a team and delivering excellence in neonatal care. We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, and self-motivated neonatal nurse (RGN/RSCN/Child Branch) with post registration neonatal intensive care qualification to join our friendly experienced team.You will have excellent clinical and communication skills.
Our neonatal nursing team is expanding, and is led by our Head of Nursing for Children and Young People, a Trust wide role to ensure babies and their families receive high quality care wherever they access our services across the organisation.When you come here you will always be learning and developing your knowledge and ensuring your skills are kept fully up to date.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment.We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B – Bold
E – Every person counts
S – Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are a busy District General Hospital (DGH) serving the population of Medway and Swale and Medway was the first Trust in Kent to achieve foundation trust status in April 2008. Our children’s emergency department has an annual attendance of over 30,000 babies, children and young people living locally.
You will be supported by Clinical Nurse Educator, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners and Governance managers, together with a friendly multidisciplinary team and a corporate training and development team. We have in house leadership programmes and work with a range of universities to ensure you can progress through academic pathways in order to support your career development.
Provide strong clinical leadership skills, supporting, energising, inspiring and empowering others in pursuit of a shared vision to ensure the effective management of the ward /department
To deputise, assist and support the Senior Sister / Senior Charge Nurse in the establishment of an efficient working environment, making the most effective and efficient use of staff, supplies and services
In co-ordinating the day-to-day management of the clinical area, delegates duties and care appropriately, whilst maintaining overall responsibility
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- RN1/RN2/RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register.
- BSc / 1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification / training / experience
- Specialist Neonatal Qualification
- Mentorship / teaching qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Knowledge in Neonatal Intensive Care cases and interventions
- Knowledge of Family Integrated Care and BFI
- Knowledge neonatal EPR systems such as Badgernet
Experience
Essential criteria- Proven experience on managing a ward; including management of rotas, managing competencies, resources and staff
- Experience of teaching / assessing / supervising others in a clinical setting
- Substantial experience in neonatal intensive care nursing
Skills
Essential criteria- Able to assess plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients / clients and give relevant advice / information to patients and relatives
- Ability to administer prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and administration of blood products
Values Based Question
Essential criteria- Give an example of a time when you have gone the extra mile to help someone