Sister/ Charge Nurse, Band 6

at  Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Work as a member of the multidisciplinary team. - Use leadership skills to supervise and manage others, contribute to planning, designing, delivering and improving future services. - Have the ability to lead team in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care with the multidisciplinary team. - To lead and deliver safe person-centred care.

This will include the management of the ward and admission area on a regular basis including the effective use of beds/trollies. - Ensure staff skill mix remains at an safe level, including use of electronic rostering and monitoring systems. - To support the monitoring of patients on the virtual ward pathway including clinical input at daily meetings. - To support the day one telephone follow up of daycase patients and those discharged under the ambulatory arthroplasty pathway.

• To administer medication and treatment within Procedure for the Ordering, Prescribing and Administration of Medical Guidelines. - Participate in mentorship and educational programmes for students and other members of the team. - Adhere to Trust policies, procedures and professional code of conduct. - To support line manager in recruitment, retention and performance related issue with staff and students.
• Support ward manager in the management of budget control. - To comply with relevant risk management strategies and processes.

Please refer the Job description for details