Job summary
- Main area
- Gatrology / Hepatology
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 200-6501983-MA-SC-B
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Georges University Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inc HCAS (por-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/08/2024 23:59
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Ward Manager - Gastroenterology/Hepatology
Band 7
*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers
Job overview
- We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking senior nurse with a passion for quality and safety and the drive and commitment to deliver world class patient focused care.
- An opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Ward Nurse Manager on Allingham ward a busy 28 bedded acute Gastroenterology ward caring for patients with a variety of conditions including luminal gastroenterology, hepatology and hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease as well as patients with enhanced nutritional needs.
- You will be a registered nurse with significant competency and experience at band 6 level within a gastroenterology environment.
- You should have a keen interest in providing high quality, harm free, patient centred care in a busy, fast paced, ever changing and often challenging environment.
- For this role you will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills and possess the ability to lead the team effectively. As a Ward Manager you must display a positive and professional manner, have a non-judgmental attitude, and be open to change.
- In return you will receive support to develop personally and professionally and gain invaluable leadership and management experience.
Main duties of the job
- The successful candidate will be expected to be a motivated leader, with excellent managerial and leadership skills, who has the drive and passion to create an inspirational learning and working environment, that continuously strives for the highest standards of quality care and has patient safety at the forefront of the services and care provided.
- You will be supported in your role by the Matron and a dedicated team of medical and nursing staff.
- Clinical expert - and role model.
- Leader – A visible and authoritative presence able to lead and manage the team and patient care, co-ordinating with the MDT to enable outstanding care to be given every time within available resources.
- Educator - able to identify and develop the potential in others.
Working for our organisation
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases.
The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- NMC registered
- Mentorship Course / teaching qualification
- Post graduate module in speciality
Desirable criteria
- Masters or willing to undertake
- Clinical Leadership Programme
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience /competency within the speciality
- Management of a ward / department / Nurse in Charge
- Teaching, assessing and development of junior staff and students
- Evidence of managing staff and dealing with difficult situations i.e. performance, sickness, change
Desirable criteria
- Budget management
Skills
Desirable criteria
- Audits
Motivates and demonstrates enthusiasm for the clinical speciality
Essential criteria
- Motivates and demonstrates enthusiasm for the clinical speciality
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Linda Smith
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07425633953
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