An exciting opportunity for band 6 junior sister/charge nurse post has arisen in Jubilee ITU Queens Hospital Romford to join our 57 bedded Critical Care service based across two sites which are Queens hospital and King george. Jubilee general Intensive Care Queens Site are looking for a band 6 nurse to provide professional leadership, educational support and advice to our nursing workforce, drive developments in nursing practice to improve patient care and experience, and to facilitate education and training for registered and non-registered nursing staff in our existing highly motivated teams. We are looking for enthusiastic experienced nurses with a passion for delivering high quality care in partnership with patients and their relatives, who is able to guide and lead others to also work with these standards in a permanent role.You will be required to provide training and support to new staff members, and guiding individuals who require performance related assistance.
To provide holistic nursing care to clients within the ITU/HDU, utilising all resources to provide excellence in practice.To develop personally & professionally as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team and undertake appraisal annually.To support all areas of critical care including cross site working.
We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.
Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.
Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.
We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Kaka Adeyemi, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5162. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
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.
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Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
RM7 0AG
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