Senior Sister/Charge Nurse

We are seeking to recruit an experienced, skilled and motivated Senior Emergency Nurse to join our fast paced, and friendly Emergency Department. The role involves being Team Leader for a variety of nursing grades and roles, coordinating a busy Emergency Department, providing direct nursing care in all areas of the Emergency Department from triage through to majors and resuscitation. The role also involves supporting HR processes, off duty, quality improvement projects and clinical governance, along side supporting and educating staff of all grades.

Please note: this role may require assessment centre or psychometric tests.

Clinical care - triage and assessment, medicines management, basic life support, nurse trauma care, prioritisation of workload and coordination of the Emergency Department.

Supporting the Operational and HR teams with management of sickness, statutory and mandatory training records and appraisals of team members; ensuring staff wellbeing is a priority.

Supporting the management of the Emergency Department's nursing roster.

Have basic and up to date IT skills.

Developing and leading on key quality improvement initiatives and supporting nursing staff to be actively involved in quality improvement.

Proactive involvement in the management of complains, PALS and investigations to ensure we uphold safe and high quality care.

Supporting staff through their probationary periods when new in role, preceptorship and maintaining evidence based practice throughout the Emergency Department

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

• To coordinate the nursing care of all patients attending the Emergency Department.
• To provide clinical leadership to the nursing team within the Emergency Department to ensure high standards of patient care are maintained.
• To take charge of the Emergency Department and manage all resources effectively.
• To ensure quality standards and Emergency Department targets are adhered to and met.
• To manage and lead a specific team of nursing staff, including Human resources, Staff appraisals / personnel issues and disciplinary procedures.
• To support the Emergency Department OSM, Modern Matron, Emergency Department Unit Manager and clinical lead.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.