R0032648 Ward Sister - Cambridge Hospital - £ Competitive depending on skills and experience

Nuffield Health is Britain's largest not-for-profit healthcare organisation. Join us as a Senior Sister / Charge Nurse in our Cambridge Hospital and play your part in building a healthier nation.

Our state of the art hospital, is central Cambridge's premium private hospital, boasting an Outstanding CQC score and offer a full range of medical and surgical specialties.With expertise in Cancer care and Cancer surgery, Orthopaedic surgery (including robotic surgery), Neurosurgery, Cardiology as well as specialist Paediatric services. Backed by the latest diagnostic imaging facilities including wide bore MRI and CT scanning, we offer immediate assessment and expert diagnosis.

Hospital facilities include 3 state of the art digital theatres, 32 beds, Surgical Day Case theatre/endoscopy suite, Surgical Day PODs, private consultation rooms, close monitoring units, Chemotherapy suite, On-site registered pharmacy, Diagnostic scanning unit and a Pathology laboratory.

Our Role

At Nuffield Health, you will discover nursing as it should be. You will have more time to care and get to know the people who are your patients, as you help them through difficult times. As a Senior Sister/ Charge Nurse, you will be responsible for ensuring the highest standards of care are provided.

Responsibilities of a Sister/ Charge Nurse

• Support the Ward Senior Sister in the efficient running of the ward.
• Co-ordinate activity and be instrumental to making sure patients receive seamless, personalised care.
• Have the privilege of working directly with consultants, who are experts in their field.
• Use your knowledge and skills in assessment, care planning and delivery to make a valuable contribution to the patient's experience.
• Provide commitment to creating a supportive and enabling working culture on the ward, which promotes patient staff and safety.

Our Ideal Sister/ Charge Nurse will have:

• A wide range of nursing skills and knowledge, including care of patients pre and post operatively, following a wide range of surgical procedures. For example, Cardiac, Colorectal, Orthopaedic, Day-care, Plastics, ENT, Gynea, Urology and more.
• Excellent communication skills and an enthusiastic, forward thinking approach.
• As much confidence working independently, as you do as part of a team.
• Excellent leadership and ward management skills - including a commitment to role modelling good practice and developing staff members.

Our Benefits

We want you to be the best you can be. We promise that we will support you with training opportunities, career development options and our unique health & wellbeing focused benefits package. This includes free gym clubs, private healthcare, pension scheme and generous annual leave. Not only this but we also offer a range of lifestyle and financial wellbeing benefits.

Be your best and join us in building a healthier nation.

Salary - Competitive depending on skills and experience

Location - Cambridge

Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Applications will be considered as they are received and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.