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Band 6 Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 06 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,471 - £50,364 pa Inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 April 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 9RT |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6089773/196-NM11366 |
Summary
6 Month Secondment
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 6 month secondment in the Specialist Ambulatory Services directorate for an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Nurse to join our friendly team as an Deputy Sister /Charge Nurse at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. If you are passionate about patient care and wish to influence and develop nursing leaders for the future, come and join us.
We seek a passionate, highly motivated, and proactive individual who enjoys working within a busy environment, to work in the Rare Disease Centre and Specialist Outpatient Department. Supporting and managing the various clinics that runs in both units. The successful candidate should be an experienced band 5 or band 6 and they will work closely with the sister and will actively participate in running their own clinics and in the development and the ongoing restructuring of the clinical services.
Closing date: 24thMarch 2024
Interview Date 3rdApril 2024
We are looking for an ambitious, highly motivated individual. The Deputy Sister/charge Nurse will be expected to provide adequate visible leadership and management of patients attending for specialised treatment and appointments.
The Deputy Sister/charge nurse will be responsible for driving operational direction and managing the Healthcare Assistants application of Care. The post holder will undertake care plans and running their own clinics once fully trained
In Rare Disease Centre and Specialist Outpatient the Deputy Sister/charge Nurse will provide expert Knowledge/experience in the management of the patient population. In addition, the post holder will also participate in the smooth running and provision of holistic care to patients on both units.
The post holder will work with consultants and colleagues to facilitate how best to achieve quality patient experience outcome whilst acting within clearly defined policies/procedure guidelines, and codes of conduct. There will also be an opportunity for the post holder to facilitate and manage our outpatients clinic.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
• You will have excellent communication, leadership, organizational and inter-personal skills and be able to work well within the multi-disciplinary team.
• You should be a Registered Nurse with post registration experience in inpatient, acute or outpatient areas
• You must be able to take part in structured teaching for patients, colleagues and students
• To be responsible for maintaining and updating own clinical practice and knowledge, including professional portfolio.
• Interactions with patients are non-judgmental and culturally sensitive
• To actively maintains documentation in accordance with the NMCs Record Keeping Guidelines
• Takes an active role in monitoring and ensuring standards of care at own base, developing awareness for clinical governance issues.
• Participate in collection of data for audit and research as required
This advert closes on Sunday 24 Mar 2024