Junior Sister/Charge Nurse - Outpatients

Job overview

We are recruiting a full time Band 6 Charge Nurse.  We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and skilled nurse with clinical experience or a particular interest in the care of Outpatients Service Users. This is a substantive full-time Band 6 post – 37.5 hours/week, with 7.5 hours per shift. You will have excellent clinical knowledge and skills and enjoy Multidisciplinary team working.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Develop Outpatients Services knowledge and clinical skills.
• Participate in audits and quality improvement projects.
• Become part of a supportive and dynamic multidisciplinary team committed to delivering accessible, high quality, evidence-based care.

You need to be well organised, motivated and committed to further developing and delivering high quality holistic multidisciplinary care; and enjoy supporting the various specialties in the Outpatients setting.

Your responsibilities will include deputising the Senior Charge Nurse, with one other Band 6 Nurse in the department. You will be covering and coordinating, taking turns with your colleague in a rotational basis.

We can offer you the opportunity to deliver high quality care whilst further developing in your career and  area of interest; advancing your clinical practice supported by a dedicated and experienced team of clinical nurse specialists across the Directorate.

Main duties of the job

• To support the Senior Sister in the provision of  professional role modelling and leadership that inspires the professional development of nursing within outpatients.
• To provide cross site cover for Outpatients in the absence of Senior Sister.
• To provide visible clinical leadership and authoritative presence, responsible for ensuring the delivery of high quality care.
• Ensuring that the needs of the patient are placed at the centre of care delivery.
• To ensure effective operational management of outpatient clinics to ensure standards are monitored and maintained /improved.
• Support the senior nurse in working with the multi-professional team on patient pathway redesign to enhance the quality of the patient experience whilst reducing delays, and ensuring patient flows are managed within elective access targets.
• Ensure local governance structures are in place and lead on delegated projects.
• Support strategies to improve the patient experience across multidisciplinary groups within outpatients and the outpatient pathways including the conduction of discovery interviews.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews  please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.