Deputy Urology Unit Leader (Pending AfC job matching)
| Posting date: | 20 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2025 |
| Location: | Leigh, WN7 1HS |
| Company: | Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7208589/302-25-7208589S |
Summary
A Vacancy at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
· To ensure a high standard of care is delivered by the Nursing team within the Urology department through the provision of evidence-based practice.
· Support the Unit Manager providing clinical and managerial expertise.
· Play a key role in co-ordinating and developing the nursing team.
· To provide support to the senior management in ensuring all staff comply with Trust policies and professional and legal standards.
· To develop specialist skills that will future support the Specialist Nurse service
Please note: This job is currently pending agenda for change job matching, the salary is not confirmed as matched. We will not be able to issue unconditional offer until this has been fully matched.
· In collaboration with the Unit Manager, be proactive in supporting the clinical nursing developments
· Responsibility for coordinating the nursing team in the absence of the Unit Leader and prioritising the workload in response to the differing demands of the service
· Be responsible for the Urology Teams e-roster, annual leave, sickness and PDR
· Maintain own standards of patient care and monitor those of junior team members. Highlighting identified training needs to the Unit Leader. Facilitate a learning and development environment for team members and allocate students.
· Undertake preceptorship, mentorship and workplace assessor and teaching roles, as required by the service within the nursing team
· Participate in formal and informal teaching of staff, demonstrating nursing care procedures when appropriate including the Trust Male Catheterisation training session
· Liaise with Unit leader to ensure team members maintain an up-to-date knowledge base and skill development programme.
· Undertake a wide range of clinical interventions/ diagnostics e.g., complex catheter changes, bladder treatment , Trans Perineal biopsy and vasectomy
· Communicate effectively with patients, to ensure involvement and consent for care planning and subsequent interventions.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
· Be responsible for providing high quality care to meet the needs of patients attending the Urology Unit. Acting as a clinical role model ensure high standards are embedded with clinical practice.
· In collaboration with the Unit Manager, be proactive in supporting the clinical nursing developments
This advert closes on Thursday 22 May 2025
· To ensure a high standard of care is delivered by the Nursing team within the Urology department through the provision of evidence-based practice.
· Support the Unit Manager providing clinical and managerial expertise.
· Play a key role in co-ordinating and developing the nursing team.
· To provide support to the senior management in ensuring all staff comply with Trust policies and professional and legal standards.
· To develop specialist skills that will future support the Specialist Nurse service
Please note: This job is currently pending agenda for change job matching, the salary is not confirmed as matched. We will not be able to issue unconditional offer until this has been fully matched.
· In collaboration with the Unit Manager, be proactive in supporting the clinical nursing developments
· Responsibility for coordinating the nursing team in the absence of the Unit Leader and prioritising the workload in response to the differing demands of the service
· Be responsible for the Urology Teams e-roster, annual leave, sickness and PDR
· Maintain own standards of patient care and monitor those of junior team members. Highlighting identified training needs to the Unit Leader. Facilitate a learning and development environment for team members and allocate students.
· Undertake preceptorship, mentorship and workplace assessor and teaching roles, as required by the service within the nursing team
· Participate in formal and informal teaching of staff, demonstrating nursing care procedures when appropriate including the Trust Male Catheterisation training session
· Liaise with Unit leader to ensure team members maintain an up-to-date knowledge base and skill development programme.
· Undertake a wide range of clinical interventions/ diagnostics e.g., complex catheter changes, bladder treatment , Trans Perineal biopsy and vasectomy
· Communicate effectively with patients, to ensure involvement and consent for care planning and subsequent interventions.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
· Be responsible for providing high quality care to meet the needs of patients attending the Urology Unit. Acting as a clinical role model ensure high standards are embedded with clinical practice.
· In collaboration with the Unit Manager, be proactive in supporting the clinical nursing developments
This advert closes on Thursday 22 May 2025