We are looking for an individual who is motivated to make a real difference with a caring and compassionate attitude, excellent team-working, communication and leadership skills within the private care team. We are looking for a visible presence to provide support, advice and assistance required by patients, their families, and carers.

Our focus is our patients and ensuring their comfort and providing quality care from referral, through to discharge. This is at the forefront of our thinking, and we are constantly working to develop the services we offer to the people we care for. If you have passion and are flexible in your approach to clinical care, acting as a professional role model providing direct and indirect clinical care, teaching and leading we would value your interest in joining our team.

Applicants will be expected to lead and deliver the high-quality person-centred care we strive to provide through our private care team.

Main duties of the job

The private Care Sister will work across the specialities at Royal Papworth Hospital, providing telephone and face to face preadmission assessments and support, admission planning and implementing high standards of clinical care, working with the wider MDT across the Trust at the Hospital site, and aiding and supporting the patient with discharge and follow up.

Effective communication is key in this role as you work closely with the consultants, secretaries, and ward staff on a regular basis.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree level or above level of qualification in Adult Nursing plus post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses to masters equivalent level OR equivalent highly developed specialist knowledge across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practical experience
• Registered with Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Experience

Essential

• To be able to effectively communicate highly complex, confidential, and/or highly sensitive condition related information through a range of developed interpersonal skills to patients, colleagues, and families (such as providing educational support, complex discharge planning) to ensure cooperation and understanding.
• To be able to undertake complex nursing interventions for example: administrating medications, catheter insertion, complex wound management.
• To be able to undertake occasional moving and handling tasks relating to patient care utilising mechanical aids with some tasks requiring moderate effort.
• Post holder will have exposure to bodily fluids (such as urine, faeces, and blood) within the clinical ward setting.
• Evidence of using a range of judgement and assessment skills in planning, delivering and evaluating specialist patient care plans whilst communicating with patients, families and the multidisciplinary team.
• To have the ability to alter priorities and care based upon patient/service need in a busy clinical environment
• To deliver patient care through appropriate delegation, responding to frequent changes in needs and/or environment. This will include staff rota management, complex discharge planning involving coordination with other agencies and professionals.
• To act in a professional manner and as a role model to other staff members, providing clinical supervision to all staff groups and disciplines as well as patients and their families.
• To plan and organise the running of the ward including day-to-day supervision of staff within their teams, complex work planning requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison to understand the use of different options including allocating team members or activities based on individual situations to meet organisational requirements.
• To be a budget holder and authorised signatory for specialist department/service.
• To be the Manager of specialist department/service Including day to day management of staff.
• To manage own patient workload in terms of prioritisation of needs escalating as required and supporting junior team members with their own escalation needs.
• To act independently within NMC code of conduct and Trust policies and procedures and knowing when to appropriate escalate.
• Post holder will have regular exposure to difficult or emotional circumstances.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

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