Job summary
Are you ready to take the next step in your emergency nursing career?

This exciting Band 6 role offers the opportunity to develop your leadership, clinical and decision-making skills within a fast-paced, supportive Emergency Department at Weston General Hospital.

As a Band 6 Junior Sister, you'll play a key role in co-ordinating patient care, supporting junior staff and promoting excellence in emergency nursing practice. You'll work alongside a dynamic multidisciplinary team, gaining valuable experience in clinical leadership, patient flow management and quality improvement initiatives.

This is an excellent opportunity for motivated and enthusiastic nurses looking to build confidence and experience in a senior role, ideal preparation for future permanent Band 6 or leadership positions within the Trust.

If you're passionate about emergency care, eager to grow and ready to make a difference, we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job
In this Band 6 role, you will play a key part in leading and supporting the Emergency Department nursing team at Weston General Hospital. Acting as a clinical expert and positive role model, you will deliver and coordinate high-quality, evidence-based care for patients presenting with a wide range of conditions. You will be responsible for ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment, and discharge planning, using your clinical judgement to make timely decisions and escalate appropriately. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential, as you will liaise closely with the multidisciplinary team, patients, and families to promote best practice and ensure a seamless patient journey through the department.

This is a hands-on leadership role that requires confidence, resilience, and the ability to work calmly under pressure in a fast-paced environment. You will need to demonstrate excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, as well as the ability to support, mentor, and motivate others. The role involves taking responsibility for daily coordination, staffing, and patient flow, as well as contributing to audits, safety initiatives, and continuous quality improvement.

This secondment offers a fantastic opportunity to enhance your leadership and advanced clinical skills, gain confidence in managing an emergency care environment, and prepare for future progression within senior nursing roles.

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Job responsibilities
Please see the person specification attached to this vacancy for full details of the main responsibilities

Qualifications and Training

• RGN.1st Level or relevant children's qualification
• Current NMC Registration
• Qualification in Teaching, assessing and Mentoring
• Relevant accredited post registration qualification at level 3
• Willingness to work towards Masters level academic study

Knowledge and Experience

• Appropriate post registration experience in nursing and speciality
• Appropriate proven leadership and management experience
• Proven commitment, experience and evidence in teaching
• At least 2 years ED experience

Desirable

• Experience of undertaking research or audit projects
• Experience as preceptor / mentor

Skills and Abilities

• Organisation and management skills
• Ability to lead a team
• Commitment to the development and provision of high quality nursing care
• Innovative and participates with practice and policy change
• Able to manage difficult situations
• Able to influence other team members
• Flexibility, adaptability to meet needs of a changing service
• Ability to work effectively under pressure

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).

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.

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).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).