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Overview
Position: Critical Care Sister / Charge Nurse – Band 6 – internal rotation. Vacancy in the newly merged Critical Care unit consisting of ITU, POCCU and HDU at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and its affiliate sites.
Key Responsibilities
These responsibilities are carried out in the absence of the unit manager and during normal shifts.
Clinical Responsibilities
- Coordinate the unit, planning, allocating and evaluating work carried out by teams or individuals.
- Provide specialist knowledge to all nursing staff on the unit.
- Promote a critical, analytical approach to nursing care and ensure the ward environment is responsive to current issues.
- Assist in reviewing and updating procedures and protocols relating to patient care.
- Develop methods for identifying, maintaining and improving patient care quality through best practice and clinical benchmarking.
- Ensure due regard to customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients and clients.
- Safely custody, check and administer drugs, including inotropes.
- Care for level 2 and level 3 critically ill patients independently, managing multi‑organ failure and complex nursing needs.
- Explore and undertake expanded practice to optimise patient care, in line with unit and Trust policies (e.g. respiratory support, hemodynamic monitoring).
Management & Leadership Responsibilities
- Act as an exemplary role model and exercise effective leadership of the unit team.
- Support the manager in maintaining adequate staff cover and skill mix through effective staffing rota management.
- Ensure effective communication with patients, carers, colleagues and external agencies.
- Liaise with nursing, medical and allied health professional colleagues to ensure comprehensive patient care.
- Participate in maintaining clinical governance standards on the ward.
- Support the implementation of risk management policies and develop action plans to address identified risks.
- Ensure outcomes and action plans from patient complaints are implemented and monitored.
- Maintain staff competence through mandatory training and record‑keeping.
- Assist with monitoring and managing staff sickness/absence as per Trust guidelines.
- Participate in recruitment and selection of nursing staff in line with policies.
- Support the implementation of the Trust’s Human Resources strategy, including Improving Working Lives and Investors in People.
- Monitor staff performance and identify learning needs via personal development plans and appraisal systems.
Education Responsibilities
- Identify and support staff training and development needs via personal development plans.
- Disseminate information from staff’s professional development to the ward team, patients and carers.
- Collaborate with clinical practice facilitators to develop and promote an effective learning environment.
- Encourage evidence‑based nursing practice, audit and research initiatives.
- Develop competency‑based training packages for pre‑ and post‑registration nurses.
- Allocate nursing/patient combinations to facilitate learning needs.
- Mentor pre‑ and post‑registration nurses and healthcare assistants.
- Utilise clinical supervision and peer group support.
Professional Responsibilities
- Act in a manner that upholds the Trust’s reputation and safeguards patient and relative wellbeing and dignity.
- Adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct and maintain active status on the NMC Register.
- Continuously develop knowledge and identify objectives within a Personal Development Plan.
- Provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues where necessary.
- Follow all Trust policies and procedures.
All applications are subject to the National Health Service Inspectorates’ Equal Opportunities policy.
The advert closes on Wednesday 27 May 2026.
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Location: Liverpool
Job Description:
Overview
Position: Critical Care Sister / Charge Nurse – Band 6 – internal rotation. Vacancy in the newly merged Critical Care unit consisting of ITU, POCCU and HDU at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and its affiliate sites.
Key Responsibilities
These responsibilities are carried out in the absence of the unit manager and during normal shifts.
Clinical Responsibilities
- Coordinate the unit, planning, allocating and evaluating work carried out by teams or individuals.
- Provide specialist knowledge to all nursing staff on the unit.
- Promote a critical, analytical approach to nursing care and ensure the ward environment is responsive to current issues.
- Assist in reviewing and updating procedures and protocols relating to patient care.
- Develop methods for identifying, maintaining and improving patient care quality through best practice and clinical benchmarking.
- Ensure due regard to customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients and clients.
- Safely custody, check and administer drugs, including inotropes.
- Care for level 2 and level 3 critically ill patients independently, managing multi‑organ failure and complex nursing needs.
- Explore and undertake expanded practice to optimise patient care, in line with unit and Trust policies (e.g. respiratory support, hemodynamic monitoring).
Management & Leadership Responsibilities
- Act as an exemplary role model and exercise effective leadership of the unit team.
- Support the manager in maintaining adequate staff cover and skill mix through effective staffing rota management.
- Ensure effective communication with patients, carers, colleagues and external agencies.
- Liaise with nursing, medical and allied health professional colleagues to ensure comprehensive patient care.
- Participate in maintaining clinical governance standards on the ward.
- Support the implementation of risk management policies and develop action plans to address identified risks.
- Ensure outcomes and action plans from patient complaints are implemented and monitored.
- Maintain staff competence through mandatory training and record‑keeping.
- Assist with monitoring and managing staff sickness/absence as per Trust guidelines.
- Participate in recruitment and selection of nursing staff in line with policies.
- Support the implementation of the Trust’s Human Resources strategy, including Improving Working Lives and Investors in People.
- Monitor staff performance and identify learning needs via personal development plans and appraisal systems.
Education Responsibilities
- Identify and support staff training and development needs via personal development plans.
- Disseminate information from staff’s professional development to the ward team, patients and carers.
- Collaborate with clinical practice facilitators to develop and promote an effective learning environment.
- Encourage evidence‑based nursing practice, audit and research initiatives.
- Develop competency‑based training packages for pre‑ and post‑registration nurses.
- Allocate nursing/patient combinations to facilitate learning needs.
- Mentor pre‑ and post‑registration nurses and healthcare assistants.
- Utilise clinical supervision and peer group support.
Professional Responsibilities
- Act in a manner that upholds the Trust’s reputation and safeguards patient and relative wellbeing and dignity.
- Adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct and maintain active status on the NMC Register.
- Continuously develop knowledge and identify objectives within a Personal Development Plan.
- Provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues where necessary.
- Follow all Trust policies and procedures.
All applications are subject to the National Health Service Inspectorates’ Equal Opportunities policy.
The advert closes on Wednesday 27 May 2026.
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Posted: May 17th, 2026