Junior Sister - Guildford, United Kingdom - Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

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Guildford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

To assist in the management of the unit on a day to day basis by appropriate deployment, delegation and supervision of all grades of staff.

To act as a team leader on shift. To facilitate an improvement in the quality of healthcare for patients. To help provide a conducive working and learning environment. To support the senior sister to promote evidence based nursing practice within the ward.

To assist in leading the nursing team in the provision of high quality, research based, nursing care that is patient and family focused.

To act as a leader, advisor and role model to less experienced nurses, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented and evaluated.

To support the senior sister in the management and facilitation of the development of staff creating an effective team.

To take responsibility for identified management/professional/clinical areas and projects under the direction of the senior ward sister.

To foster a multidisciplinary approach to patient care in line with Clinical Governance

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Clinical

To ensure high quality, research based, individualised patient care is maintained at all times.

To provide a problem solving approach to patient care

To work effectively and collaboratively on discharge planning with all members of the multidisciplinary team and interested agencies

To act as a leader, advisor and role model to less experienced staff.

To support the clinical governance processes at ward level ensuring the quality of the fundamental and essential aspects of care including use of Essence of Care Benchmarking.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust.

Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career.

Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care.

Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

We have received an overall Good rating from the CQC with Medical care (including older peoples care), End of Life Care and Maternity services being deemed Outstanding by the CQC.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on.

We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years.

There has never been a better time to join us.

Key Tasks:

To assist in leading the nursing team in the provision of high quality, research based, nursing care that is patient and family focused.

To act as a leader, advisor and role model to less experienced nurses, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented and evaluated.

To support the clinical governance processes at ward level ensuring the quality of the fundamental and essential aspects of care including use of Essence of Care Benchmarking.

Managerial

To work with the senior sister to ensure the efficient use of the ward budgets utilising allocated resources appropriately

To ensure the effective utilisation of staff.

To support the senior sister in managerial issues, taking the lead for agreed areas and projects.

To support Individualised Performance Review and objective setting for staff, identifying training and development needs.

To ensure clinical and managerial records are maintained in accordance with current guidelines.

To ensure that the environment and staff comply with Health and Safety, infection Control and COSHH regulations and that Trust policies and procedures are followed correctly.

To promote excellent communications within the ward and multidisciplinary team and to be responsible for appropriate communication structures being in place.

To ensure that incidents and accidents are reported ac