Staff Nurse

Job overview

We are seeking a dedicated, full-time Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our team. The ideal candidate will be a motivated, enthusiastic, and skilled nurse with clinical experience or a strong interest in caring for Outpatient Service Users.

This is a substantiative Band 5 position until working 37.5 hours per week with shifts of 7.5 hours each.

You will have excellent clinical knowledge and skills and enjoy Multidisciplinary team working. .

You need to be well organized, motivated and committed to further developing and delivering high quality holistic multidisciplinary care; and enjoy supporting the various specialties in the Outpatients setting including Dermatology, ENT, Cardiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Vascular, Gastroenterology, Anticoagulation and Allergy Clinics. Your responsibilities will include Running the clinics with HCSW’s and other Staff Nurses, in the department. You will be covering and coordinating, supporting the Senior staff nurse band 6, taking turns with your colleagues 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.

Main duties of the job

• To support the departmental leadership in the provision of professional role modelling that inspires the professional development of nursing within outpatients
• To assist the departmental leadership in 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
• To work 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.
• To supervise the professional development and appraisal of staff through their line management structure

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.