Band 7 Senior Sister/Charge Nurse Medical and Surgical Outpatients

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Job overview

An exciting full time opportunity at Band 7 currently exists in the Main Outpatient Department at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust due to the retirement of the current post holder. The services provided in the OPD include medical and surgical clinics include:

Nephrology

Cardiology

Respiratory

Neurology

Endocrinology

TIA (One Stop Clinics)

Genetics

Aneurysm screening

Colorectal

General Surgery

Gastroenterology (including fibroscanning clinics)

In addition, the role involves supporting safe staffing for Breast Care One-Stop clinics in our Breast Care Unit which is adjacent to the main outpatient area. You will work closely with the Lead CNS Breast Nurse to ensure that the unit is optimised to ensure the safe delivery of outpatient services is maintained.

Main duties of the job

As a nurse, you will take overall responsibility for all patients in your department, ensuring they are properly assessed and have effective management plans in place. Your role is to deliver compassionate, high-quality care while knowing each patient personally. This involves actively listening to their feedback and being visible to patients and their families to address any concerns promptly.

You must document care accurately and supervise the documentation of others, adhering to NMC standards to ensure patient records are precise. As an NMC registrant, you will continue your professional development while mentoring and teaching junior staff, including nursing assistants and newly qualified nurses. You'll be responsible for value-based recruitment to maintain an appropriate skill mix, conducting annual skill mix reviews to ensure team effectiveness.

You will also conduct constructive annual appraisals for all staff, providing feedback, setting SMART objectives, and addressing training needs to enhance their competencies in delivering compassionate care. As the charge nurse, understanding HR processes will be essential for managing team performance.

Financially, as the budget holder, you will manage departmental finances, oversee efficient roster management, and authorize payments for nursing staff. You will ensure proper care of equipment and resources, promoting their efficient use throughout your work.

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Person specification

AF and Interview

Essential criteria

• The post holder will be a first level registered nurse with a minimum of 2 years experience at Band 6.
• Degree level qualification and/or evidence of continuing professional development equivalent to post-graduate diploma level
• Management qualification alongside in house performance management experience
• Leadership skills including excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• QCF Assessor Award or Mentorship. Able to mentor junior staff
• Evidence of personal and professional development relevant to a leadership role.
• Evidence of management responsibility
• Excellent communications skills
• Evidence of knowledge of safeguarding issues
• Awareness of NHS financial management

Desirable criteria

• A mature and professional attitude / enthusiastic and positive
• Displays compassion and understanding

We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:-

• Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
• Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
• An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months)
• Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
• Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
• An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
• Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
• Cycle to work scheme
• Uniform provided (where required)
• On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
• On site health and fitness club
• On site car parking
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.

SEASONAL RESPIRATORY VACCINATIONS

We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.

GETTING TO WORK

We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY

We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.

The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial status and age.

OTHER INFORMATION

If this job requires you to have DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to replay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary. Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £13 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.

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Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 456.6KB)
• Facts about Salisbury (PDF, 214.5KB)