Description
Are you an experienced Emergency Nurse ready to take the next step in your career? Or perhaps you're already working at Band 6 and want to join a team where you'll feel supported, challenged, and valued? Either way, you could feel right at home in our busy and brilliant Emergency Department here at Queens Hospital.
We're one of the busiest EDs in the region, seeing around 300 patients every day across Majors, Resus, RAFT, Triage, and SDEC. It's demanding, unpredictable, and no two shifts are the same -- but you'll never be alone. Our Senior Nurses are incredibly hands-on, compassionate leaders who take real pride in supporting, developing, and being visible for their team.
You'll also benefit from University-linked postgraduate study and specialist ED in-house training days. As a Junior Sister / Charge Nurse, you'll lead by example to provide safe, efficient, and high-quality individualised care to patients with a wide range of needs in a fast-paced emergency setting.
Your responsibilities will include the management of patient flow, supervising and supporting both qualified and unqualified staff, facilitating education and development and acting as a shift leader in the absence of a Charge Nurse.
You'll need to be triage-competent (or working towards it), have an emergency care qualification and bring previous ED experience at Band 5 or above at a minimum of two years. In return, we'll support you to continue growing -- clinically and as a leader.
Main duties of the job:
- Provide safe, efficient and high-quality individualised care to clients across a wide range of specialities within the Emergency Department.
- Provide primary education, health advice and promotion to constitute a safe effective discharge to enable client self-care on discharge.
- Supervise & facilitate the education, training and development needs of both registered, unregistered staff and students.
- Ensure all care is inclusive, equitable and is provided within the Trust and Local Unit Policies.
The Trust operates from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. They have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. The Trust runs a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub.
Benefits include University-linked postgraduate study and specialist ED in-house training days.