The closing date is 08 May 2025
Salary: £42,939 to £50,697 a year Per annum Inclusive
Job summary
Our services include all the major specialties of large acute hospitals, operating from two main sites – King George Hospital in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We also provide outpatient services at Brentwood Community Hospital, Barking Hospital, Loxford Polyclinic, and Harold Wood Polyclinic.
Queens Hospital has easy access to local bus routes and Romford station. Romford station is part of the Elizabeth line and central London can be easily accessed within 30 minutes. Westfield Stratford is also easily accessible on the Elizabeth line within 20 minutes giving you access to over 250 shops, 70 restaurants alongside cinemas and a bowling alley. There is also a large football stadium within the Olympic park that also holds international artists concerts.
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a band 6 Sister/charge nurse to come and join Amber A team . The wards speciality base is trauma and orthopaedics Queens hospital is a centralised trauma centre with a reginal neuro unit, so it is a busy hospital and you will gain a lot of experience.
We are looking for highly motivated candidate to come and join our specialised team. Amber A are part of the surgical care group, and we believe in empowering our workforce and ensuring that your opinion is valued. We are looking for a candidate who have the patients’ best interests at the heart of their daily care and are looking to join a successful muti-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
To provide a focused leadership role and manage the staff and activities of the ward or clinical area as a ward based leader.
To act as a role model, provide leadership and co-ordinate the ward team in the clinical area.
To demonstrate advanced clinical specialist skills in order to provide the highest standard of individualised evidence based patient centred care while supervising the work of others (in line with local and national standards).
To be responsible for the ward/clinical area.
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Registered general nurse BSC level/ work experience equivalent
Desirable
- Mentorship programme
- Communication qualification
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Able to demonstrate an awareness of professional issues and developments.
- Proven years post-registration experience and evidence of managing a team of staff.
Desirable
- Substantial experience within surgical
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).