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Junior Sister / Charge Nurse - Outpatient Department

On-site in London·Full-time·Added today (last checked 9 Nov)

Barts Health NHS Trust

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Our summary

Salary
£47,951 - £56,863 a year

About £3,170 - £3,630 a month after tax.

Work mode
On-site, London
Contract
Fixed-term, full-time hours
Experience
2+ years
Closing date
Apply by Wednesday 11 November
Commute
Cycle to work scheme

Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • NMC Registered Nurse
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Relevant experience in breast care, surgical, or outpatient settings
  • Teaching/Mentorship qualification
  • At least 2 years post registration experience including a minimum of 1 year’s recent experience within the outpatient department
  • Experience in assessing post-operative and chronic wounds
  • Experience in identifying and escalating surgical wound complications including infection, seroma, haematoma and wound dehiscence
  • Breast surgery pathways
  • Pre-operative assessment processes
  • Infection prevention and control
  • Clinical governance and risk management
  • • Excellent clinical assessment skills
  • • Highly skilled in wound assessment and management
  • • Leadership and organisational skills
  • • Ability to prioritise workload and manage competing demands
  • • Effective communication and patient education skills

Nice to have

  • Recognised teaching and assessing qualification
  • Previous Band 6 experience
  • Evidence of mentoring and development of staff
  • Leadership or management training
  • Breast care qualification or relevant specialist study
  • Audit and quality improvement experience

The role

We are looking for the best talent to work in our World-Class Heart, and Cancer Centre. In return, the Barts Health will provide unsurpassed professional development opportunities, enabling investment in a range of new initiatives that would mean:

  • doctors and nurses in training will be able to gain experience in different hospitals along the whole patient pathway.
  • there would be greater opportunity for career progression – we could retain good staff who might otherwise leave to gain promotion.
  • becoming world-class will enable us to recruit some of the best doctors and researchers in the world – who can share their knowledge and experience.

 joining forces with other partners in an Academic Health Science System will mean that staff would be better able to secure funds and pool their talents to develop new technology, techniques and treatments.

What you'll do

To manage, maintain and support effectively Outpatients Departments in St Bartholomew’s Hospital. The OP area is open on a Monday to Friday basis with varying hours. There is a possibility that in the future there will be weekend working as well.

He / She is responsible for the overall management of the clinical area and for the professional development of any junior staff; the sister / Charge Nurse will provide advice and support to the whole team involved in caring for patients.  He / She will be expected to set and maintain high standards of care and be accountable for auditing and monitoring those standards.

Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse West Wing OPD

Previous applicants need not apply

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.

Application numbers

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received.

About Barts Health NHS Trust

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About the company & team

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.  

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.  

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Additional information

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. 

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful. 

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. 

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Health NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.

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