Job summary

ou will work as part of the AMU team to provide a safe, effective, efficient care environment for patients, relatives and their carers. You'll provide high quality patient centred care.

You will be responsible for leading your own zone in respect of patient safety and professional standards.

You'll demonstrate clinical excellence and act as a professional role model to junior staff, and beconfident to make your own clinical decisions whilst using your own initiative.

You will provide support to your clinical shift lead and communicate effectively to ensure the planning, managing and safe discharge of your zone is maintained.

Main duties of the job

Take charge of your own zone of patients, showing effective leadership skills. Deputizing for clinical shift lead if needed.

Promote team work within a multi-disciplinary team.

To act as a mentor/assessor/ preceptor to student nurses, newly qualified nurses and junior staff.

About us

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country - one of the country's most culturally diverse areas. It's a friendly and welcoming place - a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.

Our values - Ambition, Respect and Compassion - are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to "Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population." It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It's what makes us unique.

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we're 'with you all the way' we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.