Interviews to take place on 02/12/2024. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Main Outpatients as a Deputy Lead Nurse. This post is a crucial leadership role across a varied group of outpatient departments, supporting excellence in practice with a footfall of 300 patients every day. This leadership post offers the opportunity to support the performance of Staff Nurses and Health Care Assistants, manage patient experiences, improve and safeguard vulnerable people coming into a very busy environment.
In addition, this is a time of great transformation in the delivery of care, supporting the delivery of the digital strategy, NHS England Outpatient Transformation and Recovery programme and the regional elective recovery work.
Main duties of the job
The Deputy Lead Nurse supports the Lead Nurse to lead nursing teams to deliver excellent patient experience across Main outpatients. Responsibilities include:
1. Coordinating complex arrangements of room/rota and clinic changes due to service demands.
2. Requesting extra clinics and negotiating roster changes.
3. Receiving escalations from the staff nurse in clinic related to patient complaints, unwell patients, and other operational challenges.
4. Organizing daily work in a daily huddle, adjusting staff allocations.
5. Planning rosters, approving leave, and attending to HR matters for a group of 50 staff.
6. Coordinating mandatory training, appraisals, inductions, recruitment, and performance of staff.
You must understand quality issues, resource management, health and safety, and clinical risk. You will be responsible for the daily safety huddle, fire warden duties, health and safety checks, and audits.
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Deputy. An opportunity for an aspiring Lead Nurse to let their leadership skills shine within a large and varied workplace. You must have a genuine desire to work in Outpatients and be flexible to work over 5 days with shift times varying from 8am to 6pm.
About us
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close a position early.
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing Trust achieving a Good rating in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessment. We are proud of the commitment of our staff to ensuring a strong and sustainable future for this organization which is highly valued by our local communities.
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity and fair treatment to all applicants regardless of race, nationality, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, mental or physical disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, age or offending history.
The cost of the DBS (criminal records check) for Band 6 and above roles only will be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* Extensive post registration experience
Desirable
* Service Improvement
Knowledge and Awareness
Essential
* Up to date clinical knowledge and background in all aspects of outpatient services provision
* Risk management/health & safety
* Commissioning standards
* Clinical governance
Desirable
* Quality benchmarking
* Quality, audit and its application
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered 1st level nurse (equivalent to 1st degree)
* Assessing and Mentoring qualification
Desirable
* Other secondary nursing qualification
* Management qualification e.g. Certificate/formal management qualification
Value-based questions
Essential
* In around 100 words please describe what Equality & Diversity means to you and why they are important.
* In around 100 words, please describe a time when you were under pressure but remained calm, compassionate and focused at work.
Employer details
Employer name
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Pogmoor Road
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S75 2EP
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