Job summary
- Main area
- medical
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 153-ME03943
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poole
- Town
- Poole
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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?
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
This role requires an active UK NMC Registration
Base Location: Poole
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 about this at interview.
There is a planned move for this service during Late 2025 when this role and base of work will relocate to Bournemouth site. Upon relocation of the role/service, excess mileage allowance / reimbursement will not apply, and any travel between the postholder’s home and work base will be classified as a commute. Any other changes unrelated to this, will be handled in line with Trust/National terms and conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To Lead and develop a medical ward 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
- Demonstrates theoretical and practical knowledge of leading services at an acute leve
- 1st level degree
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in the specialty Leadership and management qualification
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 medicine
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential criteria
- Proven leadership ability
- Able to deal with demands of rapidly developing and changing service
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Debbie Fortune
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 030001983302
- Additional information
Alternative phone number 0300 019 6760
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