Ward Sister/Charge Nurse Administrator

Job summary

Main duties of the job

Job Responsibilities:

*Ordering and monitoring ward stock and necessary items through finance and procurement system.

*Scanning documents to the Electronic Patient Record to ensure clinical objectives are met.

*Gathering ward data to handover in operational and clinical meetings and to support report writing.

*Managing phone activity in staff office and communicating messages to the appropriate staff member.

*Assisting management team in the collation of information to meet clinical and operational objectives such as audit and ward improvement.

*Creating and completing the electronic staff roster.

*Supporting allocation of annual leave.

*Promote confidentiality requirements for both patients and staff.

*Monitor ward post and ensure this reaches the appropriate staff member.

*Promote Trust values.

Previous experience in this role is desirable but not essential as full training and a structured development plan will be provided.

For further information and for informal visits please contact Tilly Martindale, Ward Sister Day Ward

Job responsibilities

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour