Senior Staff Nurse

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification for further details on this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Higher National Diploma in Adult Nursing Studies or equivalent
• Health Related Degree or currently working towards
• Current NMC registration

Desirable criteria

• Chemotherapy related study
• Master Level Study

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• 2 Years Post Registration Experience within Oncology or Haematology
• Demonstrable interest in and commitment to the professional development of others
• Previous experience of nursing management - shift leading etc
• Demonstrable clinical expertise, relevant to SACT administration

Desirable criteria

• Experience of leading clinical

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to organise and manage day-to-day departmental activities and the activities of large multidisciplinary team within this
• Communication skills - able to relate and communicate with patients and staff at all levels and from different professions. Adapts communication style as necessary and is able to work with and through others
• Team building and working skills - able to lead a team to achieve results
• Problem solving skills - able to respond to unexpected issues and provide first line response and to identify appropriate sources of secondary support
• Computer literacy

Desirable criteria

• Experience of supporting governance agenda
• Deputising in abscence of management in current role

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria

• Highly self motivated - Possesses high internal work standards, sets themselves and helps others to set attainable goals; wants to do things better, to improve, to be more effective and efficient; measure progress against target
• Flexibility - Able to adapt to ensure achievement of objectives within constantly changing situations and environments
• Customer focussed - committed to ensuring a positive hospital experience for patients and their relatives/ carers
• Good general health and sickness record

Important information about your application

1. All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
2. References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
3. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
4. Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
5. New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting if the role requires a DBS check.
6. We work with 'trac.jobs' to support out recruitment process. If you have any queries regarding this please read this privacy notice.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has been awarded the Gold Award for proudly supporting those who serve. We actively encourage applications from the Armed Forces community.

We will communicate with you regarding your job application via email. Please be aware that we cannot guarantee the security of any emails sent/received via non encrypted format.

If you would like support completing an application form, please contact the recruitment department on 01782 675533 where one of our trained assistants will be able to help

At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles, on this occasion we would reserve the right to close any advert early, therefore please apply without delay!

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Documents to download

• Job Pack (PDF, 634.9KB)
• Statement handling - updated from policy (PDF, 33.6KB)
• Policy ex-offenders (PDF, 36.1KB)
• Infection control statement (PDF, 107.5KB)
• DBS Code of practice (PDF, 54.9KB)
• Trust Policy on Managing Risk Associated with Safeguarding Children (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Family Relocation Information (PDF, 1.0MB)
• Speaking Up Policy (PDF, 523.6KB)
• Recruitment Reasonable Adjustments (PDF, 122.1KB)