Job summary
An exciting opportunity for a full time band 7 in Intensive Care on the Castle Hill site. The post holder will work both operationally with other band 7's to manage the elective and emergency work at the Castle Hill Site, and manage both the Hull Royal site and Castle Hill site on a weekend on a rota.

The successful candidate must have excellent communication skills and work collaboratively with the wider ICU team to ensure delivery of excellent patient care.

Main duties of the job
The candidate must have excellent leadership and people management skills, and be able to support staff. They must be an excellent role model and promote an open and honest culture. They should have good problem solving skills and have enthusiasm for professional development.

The band 7 will support quality improvement initiatives and help to strengthen governance procedures.

The band 7 will support staff development through appraisals and training opportunities, be inclusive and gain an awareness of support services that are available

About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

We reserve the right to close the advert early in the event of high levels of interest. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.

We welcome applications from candidates who require Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK, and these will be considered alongside all other applications in line with our commitment to equality and inclusion.

Applicants can determine their potential eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship by reviewing the Skilled Worker Visa criteria set out by UKVI on the gov.uk website.

Person Specification
Application Completion
Essential

• All sections of application form fully completed

Education/ Qualifications
Essential

• Adult registered Nurse
• Post Graduation critical care course
• Evidence of leadership
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Teaching/ mentorship certificate

Desirable

• Completion of steps 1,2,3 critical care competencies
• Clinical supervision training
• Trim training
• ILS/ALS

Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential

• Substantive Critical Care experience
• Experience working as a senior nurse with managerial responsibility
• Demonstrable experience of managing/ leading others

Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Essential

• Proven ability to communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team (both verbal and non-verbal)
• Good interpersonal skills and demonstrable ability to manage challenging situations
• Proven ability to deal with difficult or sensitive issues
• Understanding of confidentiality in the workplace
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to facilitate change
• Proven ability to prioritise own workload and manage tasks (i.e., staffing, patients, beds)
• Proven ability to mentor/preceptor junior members of staff
• Proven ability to educate colleagues
• Must be aware of benchmarking and clinical governance

Special Attributes and other
Essential

• Good communication - verbal /written
• Confident and approachable
• Proven ability to work on own initiative
• Enthusiasm and motivation to develop knowledge and skills
• Motivation to promote change
• Good interpersonal skills
• Must be willing to work flexibly
• Participate in standard setting and research projects
• Facilitate learning of others
• Must have awareness of clinical governance and benchmarking
• Computer literate
• Must be confident decision maker

Other Requirements
Essential

• Must possess good time management and organisational skills
• Must be willing to work on both hospital sites

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).