Senior Sister/Charge Nurse for Children Ward
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Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital is on a mission to grow our Children Hospital and make it the best Neuro-musculoskeletal provider for Children and Young People.
Are you excited with service development and improvement? Are you ready to take your nursing leadership career to the next level with demanding yet rewarding responsibility? Are you ready to lead and champion a team where Children and young people's needs are at the heart of everything they do? Do you thrive in a busy yet effective clinical environment? Then it’s an exciting time to join our dynamic and innovative team as Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
Our team include senior clinical and management staff, Neuro-musculoskeletal and orthopaedic Surgeons, Paediatricians, clinical educator and therapists. We share collective responsibility of delivering high quality, safe and effective care to Children, Young people and their families in a 27 bedded ward. Our specialities include spinal deformity, spinal injury rehabilitation, sarcoma, metabolic bone diseases, and upper and lower limb reconstruction.
While a passion for the care that Children and Young people receive is essential, we would welcome both paediatric and adult nurses applications, based on experience.
You will have opportunities to develop and further improve your leadership skills and knowledge through formal and informal education, networking, coaching and mentoring.
The Main Duties Of Successful Candidate Include
* To provide clinical leadership and positive role model to their team; creating and maintaining positive work environment and thus facilitates positive staff experiences.
* To act as expert practitioner in the nursing care of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions to ensure provision of high- quality nursing care to children, young people and families.
* To ensure responsiveness to care and maintain positive experience for children, young people and families.
* To maintain safe, effective and efficient management of the department within allocated resources.
* To promote can do attitude for continual improvement of care through Quality improvement initiatives, research and evidence-based practice.
* To undertake delegated responsibility for the department in the absence of Matron and Associate Chief Nurse for Children and young people.
* To be familiar with, adopt and lead the team with the principles of the NHS Chief Nursing Officers vision for Compassion in Practice (NHS Commissioning Board Dec 2012).
This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.
For further details / informal visits contact: Lauran O'Neill, Matron for Children and Young People, lauran.oneill2@nhs.net, 02039470100
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