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Job overview

The Intensive Care and High Dependency Units at Tunbridge Wells Hospital are recruiting Junior Sisters/Charge Nurses - Band 6 with Intensive Care experience to join their team.

The Intensive Care department has a total of 17 modern and spacious single rooms, with 9 Intensive Care beds and 8 High Dependency beds. 

The applicants should detain, or be close to, achieving a post-registration qualification in Intensive Care Nursing, including completion of Steps 2 and 3 CC3N competencies. 

Main duties of the job

You should be dynamic, highly motivated, and have good communication and interpersonal skills alongside the ability to work as part of a team in order to provide high-quality evidence-based care. 

This is the ideal opportunity to develop and consolidate your clinical, leadership, and managerial knowledge and skills.

The Senior Nursing team and ICU Matron will provide you with an exciting, enthusiastic, and supportive learning environment and assist you in achieving the Steps 4 CC3N Competencies, alongside other knowledge and skills required to undertake and succeed within the role.    

Internal rotation to day and night shifts will be required. 

Working for our organisation

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly?  In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Please contact the Recruiting Manager for an informal discussion should you have any queries relating to the role for which you are applying. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted via an email as soon as possible after the closing date. Should you receive an invitation to attend interview, please confirm or decline your attendance. Interview slots will then be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post you are agreeing to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system and Human Resources personnel.