Senior Sister/Charge Nurse (XR07)

We have the opportunity to recruit a substantive Band 7 registered nurse to lead and manage the discharge lounge at St. James's University Hospital. The post is aligned to the Corporate Operations CSU and will offer the successful candidate the opportunity to be involved in supporting capacity and flow through emergency and planned care pathways by releasing inpatient bed capacity at the earliest opportunity. Your support will be pivotal to the ongoing development and success of the discharge lounge, using continual improvement methods. As such we are looking for someone to bring energy, enthusiasm and ideas to the job, who is also patient and staff centred.

We encourage interested candidates to visit the Discharge Lounge; please contact Helen Odedra at or Alyson Beckett at to arrange a visit.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role include providing the daily discharge lounge service, working alongside wards and departments to identify patients who are suitable to move to the discharge lounge and ensuring the patients' stay is safe and satisfactory. Communication with a wide number of groups/individuals both internally and externally is required. The team comprises both registered and non-registered staff, who should be developed to provide high-quality patient care. The individual will need to provide professional, pastoral and clinical management and leadership. They will need to provide assurance that patient care and the environment are maintained to a high standard. This will require them to have skills and experience in providing direct patient care and being able to respond to a patient who may deteriorate unexpectedly. They will also manage the finances for the department. Finally, we are looking for an individual who will be a role model to staff and represent the Trust's ethos and standards at all times.

About us

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

1. Accountable
2. Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values. Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to this post:

1. Commitment to delivering high-quality evidence-based care
2. Commitment to working in a multi-disciplinary team
3. Commitment to the clinical area, valuing the contribution of all team members, encouraging a positive and creative working environment
4. Commitment to own development and the development of junior staff

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job responsibilities

Here are some of the expectations of the role - please see the job description for a comprehensive list.

Leadership

• Support Lead Nurse in providing leadership to the clinical team
• Support and inspire staff to provide efficient, effective, safe, quality care to patients
• Deliver a positive patient experience
• Promote the building of effective teams and collaboration between teams

Clinical

• Act in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Code: Professional Standards Practice and Behaviour (March, 2015)
• Fulfil the requirements as directed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to maintain and revalidate registration
• Supervise ward staff with regards to clinical practice and patient experience to promote the delivery of excellent clinical standards
• Provide a visible clinical lead and role model to the nursing and wider team by delivering high-quality compassionate care as an expert practitioner

Quality Improvement

• Has a responsibility to improve the quality and safety of our services. It is expected that in fulfilling a clinical leadership role you will be proactive in promoting and using the Leeds Improvement Method. Contribute to quality improvement programmes as required

Education

• Help to ensure all nursing staff maintain mandatory and priority training requirements.
• Support and facilitate re-validation for registered nursing staff, and self.
• Promote a learning and development culture to improve staff skills, knowledge and competence

Person Specification Experience

• Working with a wide range of professionals including medical, nursing and management colleagues
• Understands the business of the ward

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN Adult for adult clinical areas or RN Child for children's areas (Level 1 or 2)
• Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Understanding of training needs in relation to post

Skills & behaviours

• Compassionate and caring
• Positive approach to change
• Motivator of self and others

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Lead nurse for Discharge and Transfer of Care