Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse – Adult Critical Care Unit (ACCU)NHS

Job summary

We are excited to invite applications for a Band 6 Sister/Charge nurse to join our busy Adult Cardiac Critical Care Unit (ACCU) at St Bartholomew's Hospital Heart Centre. This is a unique opportunity to rotate across three critical care units, each caring for a diverse range of patients, including:

• Post-operative cardiothoracic and thoracic patients
• Heart Attack Centre patients
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) patients
• Vascular patients
• Cancer patients

We are proud to have been rated as 'Outstanding' in leadership by the Care Quality Commission in 2017. Your professional development is a priority for us, and we offer opportunities to undertake courses such as ILS, ALS, CALS, BSc, MSc, and even PhD programmes. We also support nurse-led research, fully backed by our Director of Research and Development.

This role will involve shift patterns of long days, nights and bank holidays to meet the service requirements of the ACCU

*This role involves long days and night shifts and bank holidays to cover service requirements *

Main duties of the job

• Assess, plan, provide, and evaluate skilled evidence-based care for critically ill patients (L2 & L3). Ensuring quality care and patient safety are paramount.
• Support and develop colleagues by mentoring and assessing their skills.
• Takes charge of the unit, ensuring patient safety and in depth clinical knowledge and supporting the bedside nurses.
• Promote practice development within Critical Care.
• Fulfil Local/Trust requirements in specified audit or project work.
• Maintain a safe working environment, complying with Health and Safety regulations, Environmental Health Act, and attending mandatory training.
• Provide highly skilled support to medical staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Work in conjunctions with your seniors in quality improvement projects across the unit

-Work with senior line manager to deputise and manage team members

Working For Us

As part of our commitment to enhancing the working lives of our staff, we provide:

Flexible working arrangements

Flexible self-rostering, including long days and night shifts, in line with our local guidelines

Childcare vouchers and family-friendly policies

An excellent pension scheme and staff benefits

Career progression opportunities

We are dedicated to creating a culture of continuous learning that actively supports the personal and professional growth of all team members.

Job description

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.