Shared Care Haemodialysis Sister / Charge Nurse

We are offering an exciting opportunity to promote "Shared Care" to patients and staff, as a Band 6 Sister/ Charge Nurse. As the lead you will be passionate about the Shared Care concept and provide specialist clinical knowledge, advice and support to other healthcare workers, patients and their families. You will be responsible for the training and educating of both renal patients and staff across all sites within the renal directorate in the "Shared Care" concept., To be professionally accountable and maintain the standards of professional practice as set by the appropriate regulatory body applicable to your profession. Treat and care for patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family. To provide specialist clinical knowledge/advice/support to other healthcare workers. Be responsible for the training and educating of both renal patients and haemodialysis staff in the Shared Care concept. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate the specialist Shared Care programme for individuals with life limiting illness, and their carers. Liaise with other health care worker's providing specialist care to this group of patients. Be accountable for:

• ensuring safe and effective practice
• enhancing the patient's experience
• ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organization's objectives
Utilise clinical proficiency in delivering a high standard of nursing care. Provide managerial and leadership skills to support the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse and nursing team to deliver continually improved standards and efficient and effective use of resources.

A healthcare degree Teaching and Assessing course Relevant Post graduate qualification Extensive haemodialysis experience Experience of teaching shared care/ self- care to patients

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients. We are delighted that we have been rated as"Good"by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020. The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.