Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Senior Sister / Charge Nurse- Emergency Department
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This is an exciting and challenging time within the Lewisham Medicine and Community directorate with Lewisham and Greenwich Healthcare Trust.
An Opportunity Has Arose for a Band 7 Senior Sister / Charge Nurse within the Emergency Department at Lewisham Hospital
We are seeking an experienced, passionate, dynamic, and forward-thinking individual to join our existing team.
The Role
The senior sister/charge nurses’ role is to ensure the quality and safety of all patients within the department and to ensure that a high standard of clinical care is delivered by the entire multidisciplinary team at all times.
The ED is very high-paced and requires a leader with good time management skills. The successful candidate will need to be passionate about ensuring that the workforce you lead delivers the highest standards of care to all patients and ensuring the patient experience is positive.
You will be required to demonstrate effective and sustainable leadership and management skills, whilst working and advising as the clinical expert.
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- Effective communication
- A strong collaborative approach
- The ability to engage the nursing workforce and multidisciplinary team within an ever-changing, ever-challenging environment is essential
We offer a friendly supportive environment that values individuals in their personal and professional development.
Responsibilities
- To receive, assess, and treat adult patients involved in an accident or having an acute illness, prior to hospital admission or discharge back into the community.
- To provide a working environment where patients receive a high standard of care, and which is conducive to the education and development of nursing and medical staff, wishing to specialise or gain experience in ED care.
- To accept patients referred by their General Practitioner to the on-call teams for urgent assessment and when appropriate, admission.
Our People Are Our Greatest Asset. When We Feel Supported And Happy At Work, This Positivity Reaches Those Very People We Are Here For, The Patients. Engaged Employees Perform At Their Best And Our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Initiatives Contribute To Cultivate a Culture Of Engagement. We Have Four Staff Networks, A Corporate EDI Team, And A Suite Of Programmes And Events Which Aim To Insert The 5 Aspirations
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- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Adam Durbin
- Job title: Emergency Department Matron
- Email address: adam.durbin@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 02083333000
Maria Green
- Job title: Emergency Department Matron
- Phone: 07557 861 481 020 8333 3000 x33057
- Email: maria.green@nhs.net
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