Ready for your first Junior Sister Role, looking for band 6 experience or perhaps are you working currently as a band 6 and looking for a fresh challenge? If so we are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, forward thinking, committed and motivated Junior Sister with excellent communication and leadership skills to join our nursing team on a 6 month secondment.

The successful candidate will support the Ward Manager and Multidisciplinary team to provide patient centred evidence-based care maintain high standards of care and safe management of patients within our busy ward.

This role will offer the opportunity to be clinically in charge of a shift leading a team and supporting them in delivering high quality care. You will also be able to use your clinical expertise working to deliver high quality care and assist with our facilitation of discharges.

If you would like to explore this opportunity further and have a passion for developing, we would want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

For further information and full details of the role please see attached the job description and person specification.

About us

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our 'Right Care' behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients - we want to make these part of our DNA.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information and full details of the role please see attached the job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Post registration experience (or equivalent)
• Recent Acute Clinical Experience
• Demonstrable clinical expertise, relevant to the area

Desirable

• Has worked in different care specialities

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Registration
• Teaching and assessing course/NVQ Assessor

Desirable

• SLIP (or equivalent)
• Leadership/Management qualification

Skills

Essential

• Can demonstrate professional development in leadership
• Ability to organise and manage day to day departmental activities and the activities of large multidisciplinary team within this
• Team building and working skills - able to lead a team to achieve results
• Problem solving skills - able to respond to unexpected issues and provide first line response and to identify appropriate sources of secondary support

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the NHS Constitution & 'Understanding the New NHS'
• Demonstrable interest in and commitment to the professional development of others

Desirable

• Research Knowledge
• Understanding of Orthopaedic conditions
• Computer Skills - knowledge of windows XP

Employer details

Employer name

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Airedale General Hospital.

Skipton Road

Steeton

BD20 6TD

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423-6421307