Senior Staff Nurse
Core
Deliver safe, effective, and compassionate nursing care to patients in a fast-paced surgical ward environment while supporting ward management and operations.
Role type
Senior Staff Nurse (Inpatient Services)
Builds
Patient care plans, seamless patient journeys (admissions/transfers/discharges), and high-quality clinical outcomes.
Domain
Healthcare / Surgical Nursing
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Clinical assessment, decision-making, team leadership, emergency management, patient care coordination, evidence-based practice application, mentoring, handover management.
Preferred skills
Immediate Life Support (ILS), Advanced Life Support (ALS), Paediatric Immediate Life Support (PILS), formal teaching or mentoring qualification, preceptorship experience.
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Deliver safe and compassionate care to a designated group of patients; take charge of the ward in the absence of the Sister/Manager; supervise and support junior nursing staff; coordinate admissions, transfers, and discharges; respond to emergency situations and manage deteriorating patients; act as a clinical role model; support quality improvement initiatives.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
