Junior Sister

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

JOB OVERVIEW

We are really excited about the Ward Sister roles that we have developed for our wards within our Surgical Directorate and Planned Care Division. As part of our ambitious agenda and on-going development of the wards, we are seeking to appoint an exceptional leader into the ward sister role on MMW at St Helier Hospital.
Are you a compassionate nurse? Are you enthusiastic, highly motivated, experienced and passionate about care? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for an outstanding and committed Ward Sister (band 6) to support the Mary Moore Ward within St Helier Hospital.
The successful candidate will be able to drive the clinical quality agenda; ensuring patients receive an outstanding experience within our care. We believe our senior nurses need to be pragmatic and ready to embrace change.
MMW ward is an surgical ward comprising of 39 beds. We have a clear and ambitious vision to provide outstanding patient care and to become the best; we would like you to be part of this success.

3.0 EDUCATION, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

3.1 Maintain own mandatory training requirements, and monitor those of the ward team.
3.2 Provide a positive learning environment for all staff.
3.3 Act as a mentor and assessor for pre-registration, post registration and unqualified staff
3.4 Maintain own professional and personal development as agreed in PDR.
3.5 Ensure that performance feedback is provided for all staff, and that professional and personal development plans are agreed for the whole team.
3.6 Participate in Student Nurse Education and assessment in accordance with the university requirements.
3.7 Liaise with the Matron/Head of nursing on the preparation of annual Education plans (NMET bids)
3.8 Use all opportunities to advocate Health Promotion.
3.9 Participate in Clinical Supervision.
3.10 Maintain personal records of continuing professional development in order to meet PREP requirements.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• experience of using databases
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

Our successful candidate will be someone who is highly engaged, with a desire to lead from the bedside and to set the tone for exceptional and high quality nursing care. We are looking for an experienced and ambitious nurse who is able to lead, motivate and inspire and who is able to champion compassionate, high quality and dignified patient care.
If providing excellent nursing care, getting the basics right are important to you and you have a strong desire to support and develop others to become excellent at what they do, and if making a difference and doing the right thing is fundamental to you, we would love to hear from you to discuss this exciting opportunity further.