Critical Care Audit Nurse

Job summary

Critical Care is fully committed to audit and provides a dynamic environment conducive to gaining additional knowledge and skills. We are looking for a Critical Care Audit Nurse - Band 6 to assist the team with managing, organising and delivering a high standard of audit & data.We are looking for a registered nurse with at least 2 years critical care experience who has the critical care course. The candidate needs to be motivated and passionate about audit and demonstrate this. Thecriticalcaresetting is characterized by high patient acuity and a fast-pacedworkenvironment. Due to the nature of the role, excellent IT skills and high levels of concentration are needed to be able to work effectively.

This post involves working closely with the Band 7 - Audit Lead Nurse as well as other audit nurses, supporting and promoting a cohesive audit team. The post holder will have the responsibility for the provision of high quality data and ensuring that this is used to maintain quality care to the benefit of the critically ill patient.

Main duties of the job

The role is high profile and requires you to work with a team with varied skills and experience. You will be working closely with the Data Lead Sister inputting and validating data for submission internally to management and externally to ICNARC, NHSE and the Critical Care Network. You will also be responsible for undertaking unit audits and using this data to produce reports for submission to the management team. You must be a committed Critical Care nurse with exemplary communication, IT/computer and interpersonal skills, who is an excellent role model and passionate about audit and its role in maintaining quality and safety. Critical Care is fully committed to audit and provides a dynamic environment conducive to gaining additional experience.

About us

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries. staff restaurants and accommodation.

In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description attached.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse and hold active registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• Degree level qualification relevant to role
• Professional qualification and training to lead the clinical team with relevant knowledge and skills for specialist area, including relevant formal training/qualification to deliver the required specialist skills and programmes of care
• Education and training qualification
• Evidence of mandatory and statutory essential training skills, for example, Basic Life Support, manual handling, infection control, fire etc

Desirable

• Management or leadership qualification or training
• Quality improvement training and qualification

Experience

Essential

• Experience in nursing care, knowledge and expertise relevant to the clinical area within NHS or relevant health care organisation
• Experience in nursing care, knowledge and expertise relevant to the clinical area within NHS or relevant health care organisation
• Experience in clinical speciality relevant to role to be able to demonstrate the required level of professional knowledge and skills at a specialist level.

Desirable

• Experience in leading a team or service change/QI project

Skills

Essential

• Professional clinical knowledge skills and skills that demonstrate the ability to assess, plan, develop and implement programmes of care, including complex/specialist care needs
• Skills to assess and interpret complex needs of patients and able to give expert advice and guidance
• Specialist clinical skills and competence relevant to role to support innovative, evidence based practice.
• Ability to apply professional judgement and problem solve and lead discussions within the team to resolve complex issues
• Able to support learners and clinical supervision of staff and lead on improvements within the learning environment.
• Able to support mentors in decisions related to students/learners and make judgements regarding competence and fitness to practice including managing poor performance
• Day to day management of a patient caseload, able to work under own initiative and delegate effectively
• Able to maintain work-related record keeping and documentation
• Ability to lead a team, allocate workload, develop and promote staff wellbeing and performance
• Participate/Lead audit and research, able to understand and lead on recommendations for changes to practice and policy
• Digital Skills, use of systems, report writing and presentation skills
• Excellent communication skills and ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive information and provide reassurance and empathy.
• Commitment to own professional and personal development
• Budget and resource management skills
• Able to develop and maintain effective working relationships with all professional groups and senior managers within the organisation and external stakeholders.
• Maintains confidentiality and information governance principles and is accountable for actions and decision making
• Ability to delegate effectively and hold people to account

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Eastbourne District General Hospital

Kings Drive

Eastbourne

BN21 2UD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://jobs.esht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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