Junior Sister /Charge Nurse Critical Care

Junior Sister /Charge Nurse Critical Care NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area: Critical Care
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Sunday)

Job ref: 302-25-S
Site: RAEI Wigan Town
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/02/:59
Interview date: 10/03/2025

Job overview

We are seeking to recruit a Band 6 Junior Sister / Charge Nurse. The candidate will be a motivated and experienced Critical Care Nurse who is dependable and dedicated to delivering the highest standards of nursing care. The working hours would be Monday-Sunday day shifts and night shifts on internal rotation, full-time or part-time.

You will be based on the ICU at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary. The ICU is an 11 bedded unit, delivering the highest standards of Adult General Intensive Care. We're a small and friendly, mighty team.

Please note: Candidates will only be shortlisted if they have a valid NMC registration.

Main duties of the job

To ensure a high standard of care is delivered by the nursing team within the critical care environment through the provision of evidence-based practice.
Provide support to the unit manager and senior colleagues in the management and organisation of the unit.
Provide clinical and managerial expertise.
Play a key role in co-ordinating and developing the nursing team.
To provide support to the unit manager in ensuring all staff comply with Trust policies and professional and legal standards.

Person specification Qualifications

• RGN
• ENB 100 or equivalent accredited Critical Care course
• Evidence of teaching/ assessing
• Evidence of continuing professional development since registration
• Critical Care National Competency Level 3
• Critical Care National Competency Level 4

Experience

• Experience of teaching/assessing/ supervising others in a clinical setting
• Demonstrable experience of developing a service following from own learning
• Experience of managing a team, in line with Trust policies, and developing them to enable them to achieve the goals of the service and the Trust
• Experience of managing resources effectively within budget constraints
• Experience of quality assurance, and ability to apply those principles within own service, through audit, risk assessment, incident reporting, and appropriate action planning
• Evidence of change management in clinical practice
• Experience of work as a link nurse
• Involvement in auditing standards of care on the unit

Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Able to deal with "difficult situations" with tact and diplomacy
• Clinical teaching and assessment skills
• Audit / Research awareness

Knowledge

• A good foundation in critical care nursing
• Evidence of on-going professional development
• Knowledge of confidentiality and the data protection act
• Knowledge of risk assessment and effective risk management, including action planning

Additional

• Good record of attendance
• Flexible
• Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation

Our Trust prefers candidates to submit applications online. Please contact the Recruitment Team on if you have difficulty applying online.

The Trust reserves the right to close adverts earlier than the stated closing date if there is a high volume of applications.

We endeavour to inform all applicants of the outcome of their application by email or SMS text message.