Employer: North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Hilltop Heights Carlisle/ West Cumberland Hospital, Whitehaven
Town: Carlisle
Salary: £37,338 - £52,809 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/10/2024 23:59
Dermatology Nurse Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job Overview
Dermatology Nurse Manager Band 7, 30 hours per week
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a Dermatology team across two different sites.
You will be expected to provide effective clinical leadership to facilitate the delivery of patient care without supervision. Ensure that the highest standard of care is delivered to patients in the Dermatology department providing continuing assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of nursing care. Provide expert nursing advice to the MDT, and co-ordinate a training programme for nursing staff.
This job is based at Hilltop Heights but will require nurse management and leadership to be shared across the West Cumberland Hospital dermatology team also by effectively prioritising the demand.
Main Duties of the Job
* Provide excellent clinical leadership and management skills to ensure the effective delivery of excellent patient-focused care and resources within the remit of the department and within the parameters of agreed Trust policies and guidelines.
* Lead the multidisciplinary team in improving patient services/access within the ward.
* Lead, establish, and demonstrate practice based on current advances in nursing practice and research.
* Lead the continuing development of the department philosophy.
* Lead and actively participate in ward meetings, ensuring equity of opinion.
* Devise and plan duty rota, maintaining safe staffing levels and skill mix within the clinical setting. Provide expert support to the nursing team to ensure use of evidence-based practice.
* Manage a delegated budget for the department. Actively manage the budgetary implications of decisions.
* Lead in the recruitment and selection of staff for the ward. Ensure that there is a robust appraisal/PDP process in place for all staff. Actively manage staff attendance and absence, maintaining accurate records, and ensuring adequate cover to ensure continuity of patient care. Address attendance issues.
* Provide leadership in monitoring and achieving Trust targets.
Working for Our Organisation
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’:
* Being a clinically led organisation
* Quality and safety at the heart
* A positive patient experience every time
* A great place to work
* Managing our money well
As an organisation, we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria, we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.
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Person Specification
Other Requirements
* Ability to travel to work across sites.
* Flexible approach to working patterns.
* Driving licence.
Skills
* Ability to work as a member of a team, without supervision.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
* Able to act as a clinical supervisor, mentor, and preceptor.
* Able to promote the development of nursing within the Trust.
* Good organisational skills.
* Leadership skills.
* Ability to demonstrate the compassionate values and behaviours needed for dignified care.
* Ability to communicate with colleagues and the public.
* Ability to liaise with the main dermatology unit effectively.
Qualifications
* Registered nurse with current registration.
* Management/leadership certificate or equivalent experience.
* Recognised teaching qualification and proven ability to provide clinical education.
* Postgraduate certificate in management or equivalent.
* Further relevant postgraduate development or equivalent.
* Post registration certificate in clinical specialty or equivalent.
Knowledge
* Continuing professional development with portfolio.
* Practice requirements for all nursing staff.
* Trust policies and procedures.
* Professional leadership within the clinical governance framework.
* National strategy for nursing and midwifery.
* Awareness of the requirements of the post.
* Demonstration of continued learning.
* Awareness of, and act in, accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
* Knowledge of the dermatology specialty. Awareness of the local PCPI agenda.
Experience
* Specific training to undertake specific procedures within the remit of the role.
* Demonstrates evidence of ongoing continuous professional development.
* Preceptor/mentor for student nurses.
* Budgetary management.
* Dealing with critical incidents/complaints.
* Patient Care and Public Involvement.
* Audit and research in practice.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
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.
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