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Senior Charge Nurse - Surgical Assessment Unit, East Kilbride
Client: NHS Scotland
Location: East Kilbride, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
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Posted:
09.02.2025
Expiry Date:
26.03.2025
Job Description:
The Role
An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Charge Nurse within the Surgical Assessment Unit based at University Hospital Hairmyres.
As a Senior Charge Nurse, you will provide clinical leadership and expert advice to all nursing staff in the delivery of care within your area of responsibility, including recruitment, supervision, development, and deployment of unit staff. You will have continual 24-hour responsibility for the management of the ward/department.
The Senior Charge Nurse will undertake regular rotational cover of the Directorate or Hospital to provide leadership, deal with clinical issues, immediate management issues, and deploy staff as appropriate. You will also be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development of programmes of care, and/or the implementation and evaluation of these programmes, ensuring the delivery of high-quality care to patients.
What we'll need you to bring
* Registered Nurse with valid NMC Registration
* Educated to/working towards/operating at Degree Level
* Postgraduate expertise within specialty/area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safely, effectively, and efficiently.
* Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the specialty/area of practice.
* Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies, and procedures associated with the specialty/area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilized to deliver leadership within the specialty/area of practice.
* Management qualification or equivalent gained through experience and continuous professional development
* Further education/evidence of Continuous Professional Development in the area of specialty including study days/courses/postgraduate qualification
* Excellent team-working/leadership skills and the ability to motivate others and work using your own initiative
* Excellent listening, communication, and interpersonal skills.
* Working knowledge of basic information technology
Contract type
Permanent
Full time, 37 hours
Location
This role will be based in the Surgical Assessment Unit within University Hospital Hairmyres.
Looking to find out more?
If you’re looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!
Please contact Shirley-Ann O'Hare, Senior Nurse on email: Shirley-Ann.O'[emailprotected]
Why NHS Lanarkshire?
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.
Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:
* A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
* A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
* Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits
* Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
* Occupational health services
* Employee counselling services
* Work-life Balance policies and procedures
Further Information
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.
Additional Information for Applicants
* Posts close at midnight on the indicated date. However, if there is a high level of interest in this position, we may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.
* For help to complete an application on Jobtrain please follow this link: https://www.careers.nhs.scot/how-to-apply/application-process/
* Please check your e-mail regularly (including junk & spam folders) as well as your Jobtrain account for updates.
* Once you have submitted your application form you will be unable to make any amendments
NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent—regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.
Right to Work within the UK
NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.
We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.
Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.
Please note that all Band 1 and Band 2 posts are not eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route.
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