Staff Nurse - Outpatients

Job overview

We are looking for a Staff Nurse to join our outpatients department at Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital.

Our community hospitals provide a wide range of services including in-patient rehabilitation, outpatient consultations in major specialities such as child health, dental services, therapy and rehabilitation services, minor injuries, minor illness, phlebotomy, sexual health clinics and other out-of-hours treatments

We are run by a team of Matrons, Nurses, rehabilitation assistants, health care assistants, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, care managers, pharmacists, visiting medical officers and medical consultants.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for you to be a qualified member of the Outpatients Department Team, supporting the OPD Junior Sister and maintaining the day to day running of the Department at both sites.

You'll ensure the effective management of all clinics, carrying out and assigning tasks involving direct/indirect care to the patients attending the department.

The department consists of Out-Patient clinics, with visiting Consultants from Acute Trusts – for example, Orthopaedic and Trauma, Cardiology, and Gynaecology.

Additional Working Pattern: 30

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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