Junior Sister/Charge Nurse - Emergency Department (Band 6)

Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic experienced staff nurse to join our team of existing Junior Sister / Charge Nurse's. The post holder will support the Emergency Department nursing team in the care of patients, and will assist in the facilitation of the Trusts Emergency Care Standards and service development.

Our Emergency Department is good, but we want to be outstanding, so we know there is much work to be done. What we are looking for are superb nurses who will help us achieve our shared aim and the absolute desire of providing the very best emergency care to our local population.

We want to employ motivated and dedicated nurses who are seeking a career in emergency and urgent care nursing and have the aspiration and hunger to work in this acute and complex environment. We want nurses who will enhance the enthusiastic, dedicated and passionate teams who are ready and waiting to step up to the future exciting challenges of emergency nursing.

Main duties of the job
We understand that it is the hard work, effort & dedication of our nurses that makes the difference for our patients, so in return we can offer you a state of the art working environment. The emergency department includes all individual high dependency stretcher rooms. A four bay resus room with state of the art equipment, a specific dementia suite, an area for close observation & a separate waiting area & specific rooms for paediatric patients. We have our own xray facilities co located within the department, & we now have the innovative AAU within this urgent care environment.

We offer several development opportunities & routes to progression & advancement within your emergency nursing career. We have our own urgent care educators who can tailor your training to meet your individual requirements to advance & enhance your development.

About us
Emergency nursing is a greatly rewarding profession with exciting future developments. The emergency department at Airedale General Hospital is the perfect location to begin or continue your emergency nursing career. As well as all the professional benefits, the locality has excellent provisions for the perfect home life; there are excellent transport links to the beautiful peaceful dales in one direction and the bustling city life of Leeds in the other. Both are literally on the door step.

Why would you settle for anything less, when you can have it all here at Airedale!!

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

• Cycle to Work
• Travel Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
• Onsite Nursery
• Buying and Selling Annual Leave
• Car Leasing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Health and Wellbeing
• Extensive Reward Scheme
• Counselling Service
• Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
• Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.

Our values
We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

• Committed to Quality of Care
• Compassion
• Working together for patients
• Improving Lives
• Everyone Counts
• Respect and Dignity

Essential qualifications

• Registered nurse with NMC pin
• Significant post registration experience, with urgent / emergency care
• Complete ED clinical skills set
• Level 1 National Major Trauma Nursing Group Competencies
• Participating in the training & assessing of students & new starters
• Level 2 RCN National Curriculum & Competency Framework
• Understanding of clinical audit and governance

Desirable qualifications

• ALS / TNCC / APLS
• BSc degree
• MSc degree
• Relevant post graduate qualifications
• Teaching and assessing (998 / SLIP / FLIP/ PEEP)
• Recognised leadership course
• Completion of Faculty of Emergency Nursing Modules

Essential knowledge

• Evidence of having or developing management skills
• Knowledge of current clinical or professional issues
• Experience of using IT and databases

Desirable knowledge

• Experience of service improvement / transformational change

Location: Airedale General Hospital, Skipton Road, Steeton, Keighley, BD20 6TD
Contract: Permanent
Band: Band 6 (Agenda for change)

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship are welcome. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. Apply through our website.