Job summary
- Main area
- Endoscopy Unit Manager
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6207483AZ
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HGH Endoscopy
- Town
- Hexham
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Endoscopy Unit Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented, ambitious, and dynamic nurse to join the Emergency Surgery and Elective care business unit at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust as Unit Manager of our soon to be opened Endoscopy Unit at Hexham General Hospital .
Main duties of the job
We have endoscopy units at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, Alnwick and our Specialist Emergency Care Hospital at Cramlington as well as Hexham. The new unit soon to be JAG accredited will have 2 rooms and be housed in its own department. You will be expected to provide visible, accessible and senior leadership to the current team and also the additional staff that will be recruited for the additional capacity. You will be expected To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care within the Endoscopy Unit.
To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain the high clinical standards required of an accredited unit.
To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
Responsible for the management of all the human resource issues relating to the staff within the unit.
Holds a delegated department budget
Required to take the lead within your department for standards of decontamination within Endoscopy Departments, providing advice and carrying out regular audits.
Responsible for ensuring JAG standards are maintained to ensure accreditation for your department, assisting in the preparation for assessment and the monitoring of required GRS audits.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communicate sensitive information when helping patients understand their investigations or diagnosis.
Required to act as the patient’s advocate, using empathy and counselling skills
Establish effective links with the local colorectal cancer MDT to ensure a seamless, timely transfer of care when cancer is detected.
Post holder must have the ability to manage a team, demonstrating excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with the wider MDT. Must be able to organise own time and ensure the service provision.
Responsible for providing a safe clinical environment that meets all the expected standards of decontamination and patient safety.
Responsible for policy implementation and service development within Endoscopy.
Ensure the unit continues to develop to meet national standards outlined in JAG.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of practice development
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of managing and leading a team through change process
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st Level live NMC required Registered Midwife
- Registered Mentor
- Health related degree or equivalent knowledge and / or experience
- PP126/127 or equivalent
- D32/33 or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Management/Leadership qualification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sandra Marshall
- Job title
- Matron for Endoscopy and Bowel cancer Screening
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07554770928
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