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Job summary

Main area
Gastroenterology
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 9 months (To cover maternity leave)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Job share
37.5 hours per week (Weekend working required)
Job ref
153-ME03428
Employer
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Bournemouth
Town
Bournemouth
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust logo

Ward Leader

Band 7

As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.

We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.

In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.

We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.

We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce. 

At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.

As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.

Job overview

Do you take enormous pride in delivering safe, compassionate care, resulting in a high-quality patient experience?

Do you want to make a difference to patient care? 

If yes, we want you to join our friendly, committed and dynamic team on Ward 1 (Gastroenterology) to cover maternity leave

This is an exciting opportunity for a professional, enthusiastic positive person who takes pride in their work to create a vision and collaboratively work with the multi-disciplinary team to promote and build and maintain independence for our patients

Base Location: Bournemouth

Interview Date: TBC

Main duties of the job

  • Provide leadership and demonstrate a high quality of clinical care and practice
  • Coordinates and manages the delivery of inter-professional car
  • Ensures the prompt instigation of appropriate treatment following consultation with the relevant care group
  • Monitors the plans of care for patients with other team members to ensure that care is implemented and remains appropriate to the needs and wishes of the patient
  • Ensure clear lines of communication between the ward team, Matron’s and wider Directorate
  • Provides and receives complex, sensitive or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or reassurance skills are
  • Contribute to developments in the Trust in response to Trust objectives and develops practice accordingly
  • Ensures patient care is delivered in accordance with established policies and protocols and to the agreed standard
  • Deliver specialised care in keeping with the needs and wishes of patients and their family

Working for our organisation

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD.  They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme. 

This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term.  Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.  

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To Lead and develop Ward 1  to meet the needs of the service
  • To lead and manage the development and  provision of a high quality nursing service and environment  for the inpatient service of ward / department
  • To provide specialist nursing knowledge, expertise and advice, facilitating the provision of evidence based patient centered care pathways and package
  • To ensure that resources are efficiently and effectively managed to deliver a high quality service
  • To work closely with specialty Consultants, multi-disciplinary teams, other clinical leaders, Matrons and directorate managers to provide a high quality and cost-effective patient focused service
  • To establish a balance between clinical and managerial demands so as to maintain clinical credibility.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NMC Registered Nurse
  • Recruitment and selection course
  • Demonstrates theoretical and practical knowledge of leading services at an acute leve
Desirable criteria
  • Qualification in the specialty Masters Level Course

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable post-registration experience, to include at least 2 years band 6 experience expertise in acute setting
  • Ability to work in a pressured environment
  • Experience in service and practice development
Desirable criteria
  • Band 6 Experience within Older peoples Services/ Stroke services

Technical Skills Competencies

Essential criteria
  • Proven leadership ability
  • Able to deal with demands of rapidly developing and changing service

Employer certification / accreditation badges

UHD ValuesApprenticeships logoArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into health

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mark Valentine
Job title
Matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
03000196531
Additional information

Alternative phone number 0300 019 4040

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