Ward Manager - Gynaecology Outpatients

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Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.

Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.

We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.

Job overview

The Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Outpatient Department facilitates & supports a wide range of Gynaecology outpatient services, both face to face and remote. We are looking for an experienced Charge Nurse to join our Broomfield team to lead in the day-to-day running of the department & provide support to all services provided within it following induction & ongoing support.

You will use your experience to develop and maintain good departmental management and act as a positive role model, showing clear concise and strong leadership. You will support both qualified and unqualified staff, whilst enhancing and ensuring positive experience, and patient safety at all times.

So, if you have significant experience working in Gynaecology Outpatients and are looking for an opportunity to develop your skills and career, we want to hear from you today.

Main duties of the job

If successful, you will be expected to manage the Gynaecology outpatient services and staff, some of the duties of this job include:

• Ensure appropriate communication mechanisms are in place and promote and maintain effective communication within the multidisciplinary team and between other colleagues, patients, relatives.
• Provides strong, clear and consistent leadership to the Gynaecology Outpatient team acting as a positive role model exemplifying professional attitude and behaviours.
• Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice and support to women across the Gynaecological Nursing services, ensuring that the provision of evidence-based nursing care is maintained
• Ensure a holistic approach to care that is current, effective and research based is afforded to every patient, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, and in collaboration with all other disciplines.
• Identify and undertake initiatives and innovation to improve quality of patient care, develop the service and meet the requirements of current standards/legislation
• Support and participate in all aspects of Governance
• Motivates the team to establish a positive learning environment and ensures that each member of the team is valued and developed to their full potential within the Outpatient competency framework.

Working for our organisation

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for Gynaecology Outpatient Manager (Senior Sister) for further details and responsibilities for this vacancy.

We look forward to receiving your application - please be advised we do reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant gynaecology experience at band 6 or above

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of managing a team
• Evidence of mentoring

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Evidence of gynaecology accredited course
• Mentorship or training qualification
• NMC pin

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application

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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 Description (PDF, 448.6KB)
• Privacy Policy (PDF, 441.0KB)
• AFC Pay Poster 25/26 (PDF, 32.3KB)
• Behaviours Framework (JPG, 298.0KB)
• Applicant MS Teams Checklist (PDF, 560.5KB)
• Trust marketing brochure (PDF, 2.1MB)
• General Statements - AFC - V5.1 (PDF, 424.6KB)