# Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse (Management) - Critical Care

**Company**: Barts Health NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Salary**: £47,951 to £56,863 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

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.

**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.

- 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 conjunction with your seniors in quality improvement projects across the unit.

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

**Benefits**

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- ILS
- ALS
- CALS
- Mentorship
- Specialist relevant clinical course
- Management training
- Completion of Step 4 Competencies
- Registrant with NMC
- Adult Critical Care Course

### Nice to have
- Leadership programme or equivalent
- Degree or working towards first degree

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