# Deputy Sister / Charge Nurse, ITU

**Company**: Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Chertsey
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £41,957 to £50,387 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint an enthusiastic, experienced nurse to join our forward thinking, progressive Nursing Team as a Shift Leader responsible for the clinical management of our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on a shift by shift basis.

The Intensive Care Unit at St. Peter's Hospital is a purpose-built unit funded for 11 beds, part-refurbished in May 2017. We currently see around 1,200 patients a year in our Unit, our patients are often admitted with multi-organ failure requiring ventilatory support, renal support via continuous venous hemofiltration, cardiac support with Intra-aortic balloon pumps, cardiac output monitoring, as well as patients from trauma and elective surgery, alongside other medical conditions.

The post holder will work as a Shift Leader responsible for the clinical management of the ICU on a shift by shift basis. To be responsible for the immediate management of critically ill patients in ICU and in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team ensure that patients receive optimum care. The post holder will support the Team Leader in any service development projects. To lead by example as an expert practitioner.

The main duties of the job include:

- Co-ordinate the management of the Unit when in charge, delegate duties and care appropriately whilst maintaining overall responsibility.

- Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advanced clinical skills.

- Supervise the delivery of high standard of nursing practice and evidenced-based patient care.

- Contribute to the Corporate Nursing and Patient Care Agenda.

- Develop and maintain own competence in agreed basic and advanced clinical skills.

- Demonstrate clinical knowledge/expertise at the level of Advanced Practice in Critical Care.

- Act as a source of specialty expertise within the Directorate and across the Trust as appropriate.

- Ensure that clinical and housekeeping practice follows policies/procedures designed to prevent hospital-acquired infection.

- Ensure the promotion and provision of health education for patients and their carers.

- Actively promote and implement research and evidence-based practice.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

- Significant experience post Critical Care course

- Able to demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge

- Effective working with multi-disciplinary teams

- Completed CC3N step 2 and 3 competency document

- Hold recognised Critical Care Course or >5 years ICU experience

- RGN Level 1 NMC registered

In return for your hard work and dedication, we offer the full range of NHS benefits & discounts.

For more information about careers at ASPH visit: www.asph-careers.org

## Skills

### Required
- Critical Care
- Advanced Clinical Skills
- Multi-disciplinary teamwork
- Leadership
- Communication

### Nice to have
- Leadership / coaching qualification
- Diploma / degree in Critical care
- ILS/ALS

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