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Job Overview
This role is for a full time Band 6 Sister / Charge Nurse within the busy Urology Outpatients Nursing team.
Are you looking for a change or an opportunity to shine and show your potential as a future leader in nursing care? Are you passionate about urology patients and their care? Are you an experienced Band 5 or Band 6 nurse with experience in leading a team and recent urology or surgery experience?
This is the role for you
You will be working with another band 6 nurse and Band 7 nurse to lead the urology outpatient team, liaise with multidisciplinary team, support research, ensure high quality patient care. Provide direct patient care in nurse led clinics.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for daily running of department
Managing staff
Providing training to junior members of the team, students, external meetings
Completion of training for additional skills required in the department
Managing difficult situations relating to patients and visitors
Radar / Complaints
Liaise with Multidisciplinary team,
Support the Senior Sister
Completing audits
E Rostering and daily staff allocation
Completing appraisals
Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care needs provided by self and others in the care team. Provide supervision of less experienced staff or Health Care Support Workers carrying out these duties.
Undertake nurse led clinics and support clinician led clinics
Working for our organisation
North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.
Patient Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Take personal responsibility for the nursing care of patients in the clinical setting.
Ensure changes, advice, day-to-day activity and tests are documented contemporaneously, giving a clear profile of care received during a patients' visit to the care setting.
Plan, allocate, supervise and evaluate working practices of the team on a day-to-day basis.
Provide professional advice and support to team members so that they are able to assume responsibility to carry out delegated duties.
Facilitate and maintain clinical competence/skills of self and others in day-to-day working practices.
Assist the Supervisory Sisters to ensure clinical competence/skills of members of the nursing team meet the requirements of Trust Policies and Procedures, and are measurable against benchmarking standards.
Undertake additional nursing tasks, relevant to clinical area and specialism
Ensure all members of the multi-disciplinary team are aware as changes occur.
Compliance with all infection control policies and procedures will form an integral part of the practice of all staff involved in direct patient care.
Clinical staff will seek support and advice from infection control in all instances where cross infection is likely to have occurred or when managing situation involving patients with infections where guidance provided in the policies is not applicable.
All staff will contact occupational health if they are suffering from any form of infection which may put patents and other staff at risk'
Policy And Service Development
Contribute to the development of speciality specific clinical protocols and guidelines.
Supervisory And Management Responsibilities
Assist Supervisory Sisters and support cascade of information to department team in a timely manner.
Deputise for the Supervisory Sisters as required.
Assist Supervisory Sisters in compliance with all Health and Safety and Risk Management requirements relating to the clinical area.
Hold the outpatients bleep and be the point of contact for staff requiring support with the day to day running of the gates in the absence of the supervisory sisters.
Investigate clinical incidents/complaints, report and take any action required to the Supervisory Sisters. Initiate any immediate actions required to ensure patient and staff safety is maintained.
Provide professional and operational management of department on a day-to-day basis.
Support Supervisory Sisters to implement Trust HR Policies and Guidelines consistently across area of responsibility.
Act as Directorate/Service/Department representative at meetings in the absence of the Supervisory Sisters.
Assist Supervisory Sisters in recruitment of staff to department team.
Financial Responsibilities
In the absence of the Supervisory Sisters, ensure department resources are managed effectively and appropriate action taken.
Be aware of the financial position of the department and discuss any areas of concern with the Supervisory Sisters or Clinical Matron for the area.
Work within Trust and departmental protocols for deployment of staff and utilisation of temporary staffing
Education
In support of the Supervisory Sisters, ensure staff are given appropriate training and support to undertake their day-to-day duties safely and competently, in line with NMC and Trust requirements.
Contribute to the facilitation of a suitable educational environment in which to support the development and learning of ward team members and students on placement.
Act as a practice supervisor and assessor to students on placement.
Provide expert advice within sphere of specialism
Training And Development
Undertake staff appraisals in line with Trust requirements
Undertake designated training role as required by the department.
Research And Development
Ensure that own and team's practice is evidence based and in line with National Service Frameworks and/or other given standards.
Participate and facilitate others in research and audit. Assist in implementing recommendations of audits or other related documents, e.g. patient & staff surveys and complaints.
Act as a department link nurse to directorate/Trust, ensuring feedback to team, enabling review of practice, e.g. tissue viability, palliative care etc
Freedom To Act
Work and undertake duties as delegated by the Supervisory Sisters.
Work at all times within speciality, directorate and Trust Guidelines, procedures and policies.
Supervise work carried out by other team members.
Communication And Information
Maintain effective communication of patient information with the internal Trust and external members of the multidisciplinary team.
Communicate effectively via verbal, written and electronic routes.
Maintain contemporaneous patient records.
Communicate and record all information in accordance with Trust Policies and Data Protection Act
Workloads may be unpredictable on a day-to-day basis and variations in activity should be expected.
Staff are required to walk or stand for the majority of the shift time.
Weekend and late working may be expected as part of the role, unless otherwise agreed with relevant managers.
Manual handling of loads and patients using the appropriate aids and assessments will be required on all shifts.
Pushing trolleys, chairs and other furniture according to manual handling policies may be required on all shifts.
Contact with blood and bodily fluids on all shifts.
The staff nurse may be expected to deal with distressed, violent or aggressive (verbally or physically) patients and relatives on occasion.
The requirement to take responsibility for safeguarding vulnerable patients.
Due to the nature of the workload staff will be required to concentrate at a high level often during the shift in relation to carrying out instructions/documentation/communication. This will involve the use of computer screens for short periods of time
The staff nurse will be required to be responsible for multiple tasks, delegation, other staff/carers and patients simultaneously frequently throughout a shift.
Staff maybe required to act quickly and immediately in the event of emergencies or other unexpected events within the area.
Frequent telephone interruptions requesting help or advice.
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
Registered Nurse (registration valid with NMC)
Recognised teaching and assessing/mentor qualification
Documented evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Desirable criteria
Educated to degree level as a minimum (or equivalent) or working towards
Work Experience
Essential criteria
Significant experience at Band 5 within the NHS within Urology or Surgery.
Evidence of leading a nursing team /group of nurses
Evidence of assessing/ mentoring nursing students/ and health care support workers.
Leadership skills including the ability to problem solve
Desirable criteria
Experience at Band 6 level
Managerial experience: staff rostering and allocation, sickness management, appraisals, dealing with complaints and incidents, conflict resolution, staff wellbeing, change management
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
Advanced communication skills, verbal & written
Excellent interpersonal skills with patients and multidisciplinary team. Proven ability to work effectively in a team
Well organised
Ability to work as a professional role model at all times with a positive attitude to work and change
Ability to support and mentor non registered workforce
Ability to work calmly, evaluating situations and solving problems.
Evidence of continuing professional development.
Sound knowledge of the guidelines set out in the NMC code of professional conduct and current Nursing Issues
Basic computer / IT skills and expectation to develop these in line with the needs of the service
Desirable criteria
Understanding and evidence of involvement in audit
Personal Qualities/Special Circumstances
Essential criteria
Enthusiasm for nursing and to making a difference for patients
Energy and drive
Able to work within a diverse community of patients and health care professionals.
Ability to work flexibly across all days of the week
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The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.
At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT's workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.
Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.