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Shared Care Haemodialysis Sister/Charge Nurse
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Job summary
Are you interested in joining our team of specialist renal nurses?
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.
You must have:
A healthcare degree
Teaching and Assessing course
Relevant Post graduate qualification
Extensive haemodialysis experience
Experience of teaching shared care/ self- care to patients
Informal enquiries to: Consultant Nurse Helen Spooner ex 86136 or Lead Nurse Renal Services Julie Sproson ex 82497
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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.
Details
Date posted
05 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum (Pending Job Evaluation)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
225-DIV2JD-8257412
Job locations
New Cross Hospital
Wednesfield Road
Wolverhampton
WV10 0QP
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
Expert Practice
- To practice within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
- Provide expert nursing advice in the field of the specialism.
- Provide guidance in the management of patients through protocol/practice guidelines to support nurses decision making in clinical practice.
- Make changes to management plans of care using evidence based research and within protocols.
- Develop efficient care pathways for both staff and patients to enable participants to achieve seamless care.
- Ensure clinical practice is patient centered and evidence based within the scope of NMC directives, local trust policys and guidelines.
- Utilise advanced communication skills to explore and address feelings and issues with patients who have a life limiting illness and their carers.
Education and Development
- Acts as an educational resource for other clinical staff, patients and carers, also relevant external agencies by providing formal and informal education sessions.
- Design and deliver education/training packages suitable for both clinical staff, patients and their carers specific to the specialty.
- Continually review and update patient education handbook as required.
- Research, audit and service development
- Undertake regular audits to evaluate the service provided and its outcome.
- Set nursing/clinical standards and systematically monitor the delivery of the service. Continually assessing and developing and sharing best practise. Implement any changes within own service.
- Identify research relevant to develop the service within clinical colleagues so as to promote best practise.
- Promote the use of, or development of, evidence based guidelines for specific conditions and therapies.
- Contribute to regional/national audit/research including the provision of presentations as required
- Identify needs for change within practice and facilitate new ways of working, in conjunction with Senior Sisters and other appropriate individuals.
- Advise on and evaluate national policy initiatives, NSFs and NICE guidelines that will affect practice locally.
- Contribute to the business planning for service development if required.
- Developing Staff and others
- Keep up to date with new treatment and technological developments regarding specific management. Attend appropriate local/national/international meetings as required
- Provide learning opportunities for all staff; contribute to learning opportunities for other professional groups and patient/carer groups.
- Publish and present service developments/service evaluation locally, nationally and internationally as required.
- Where others are allocated/seconded to work within the service, design ways to improve their competencies in relation to the requirements of the service and provide learning opportunities to fulfil competencies in relation to stage in professional development.
Please see attached Job Descriptions for further information
Job description
Job responsibilities
Expert Practice
- To practice within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
- Provide expert nursing advice in the field of the specialism.
- Provide guidance in the management of patients through protocol/practice guidelines to support nurses decision making in clinical practice.
- Make changes to management plans of care using evidence based research and within protocols.
- Develop efficient care pathways for both staff and patients to enable participants to achieve seamless care.
- Ensure clinical practice is patient centered and evidence based within the scope of NMC directives, local trust policys and guidelines.
- Utilise advanced communication skills to explore and address feelings and issues with patients who have a life limiting illness and their carers.
Education and Development
- Acts as an educational resource for other clinical staff, patients and carers, also relevant external agencies by providing formal and informal education sessions.
- Design and deliver education/training packages suitable for both clinical staff, patients and their carers specific to the specialty.
- Continually review and update patient education handbook as required.
- Research, audit and service development
- Undertake regular audits to evaluate the service provided and its outcome.
- Set nursing/clinical standards and systematically monitor the delivery of the service. Continually assessing and developing and sharing best practise. Implement any changes within own service.
- Identify research relevant to develop the service within clinical colleagues so as to promote best practise.
- Promote the use of, or development of, evidence based guidelines for specific conditions and therapies.
- Contribute to regional/national audit/research including the provision of presentations as required
- Identify needs for change within practice and facilitate new ways of working, in conjunction with Senior Sisters and other appropriate individuals.
- Advise on and evaluate national policy initiatives, NSFs and NICE guidelines that will affect practice locally.
- Contribute to the business planning for service development if required.
- Developing Staff and others
- Keep up to date with new treatment and technological developments regarding specific management. Attend appropriate local/national/international meetings as required
- Provide learning opportunities for all staff; contribute to learning opportunities for other professional groups and patient/carer groups.
- Publish and present service developments/service evaluation locally, nationally and internationally as required.
- Where others are allocated/seconded to work within the service, design ways to improve their competencies in relation to the requirements of the service and provide learning opportunities to fulfil competencies in relation to stage in professional development.
Please see attached Job Descriptions for further information
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current NMC RN registration
- Healthcare Degree
- Teaching and assessing qualification
Experience
Essential
- 3 years experience in haemodialysis
- Relevant post graduate specialty qualification or equivalent training
- Experience of teaching Shared Care / self-care to patients
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current NMC RN registration
- Healthcare Degree
- Teaching and assessing qualification
Experience
Essential
- 3 years experience in haemodialysis
- Relevant post graduate specialty qualification or equivalent training
- Experience of teaching Shared Care / self-care to patients
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).
Additional information
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
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Address
New Cross Hospital
Wednesfield Road
Wolverhampton
WV10 0QP
United Kingdom
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Employer details
Employer name
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Address
New Cross Hospital
Wednesfield Road
Wolverhampton
WV10 0QP
United Kingdom