The Clinical Site Management Team at King's Mill Hospital is dedicated to providing exceptional nursing support, professional leadership, and expert advice across all areas within the Trust. Our team operates 24/7 to ensure the highest standards of patient care and hospital efficiency.

As a Duty Nurse Manager (DNM), you will play a critical role in coordinating effective patient flow across hospital sites and managing site incidents. You will report to the Silver on Call and Flow Room Lead, ensuring seamless operations and optimal bed allocation. This position is pivotal in maintaining high standards of patient care, cleanliness, and infection prevention throughout the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Clinical Leadership & Support: Provide round-the-clock clinical leadership, professional advice, and expertise trust-wide to ensure patient needs are met safely and efficiently.
• Patient Flow Coordination: Oversee the effective utilization of beds, staff, and workloads to ensure a logical and efficient flow of patients throughout the Trust.
• Incident Management: Coordinate responses to site incidents in collaboration with the Head of Operations, Emergency Planning Lead, and other relevant personnel.
• Performance Standards Compliance: Work with Divisional teams to meet quality targets and comply with contractual obligations and performance standards.
• Enhanced Clinical Support: Assist in clinical emergencies and carry out enhanced roles to support prompt and safe patient care.
• Team Management: Supervise and line manage Flow Coordinators, Transport Coordinators, and Virtual Ward Healthcare Support Workers.
• Infection Control: Ensure the highest standards of cleanliness and infection prevention and control, particularly in the absence of Heads of Nursing.

About us

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand this role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

• Excellent communication skills with clear written & oral skills
• Proven management skills - effective organisational abilities, supervisory, leadership & change management skills.

Qualifications- Academic/ Craft/ Professional

Essential

• 1st level registered nurse ILS
• Ability to practice & think at 1st degree level
• Recognised teaching certificate 998 or equivalent teaching qualification.
• ILS

Desirable

• 1st Degree
• Leadership course

Further Training

Essential

• evidence of on-going learning

Desirable

• ECDL

Experience

Essential

• Expert knowledge of current emergency care issues & targets
• Extensive post registration experience, significant recent experience in a senior position within an acute care setting.

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• Regular attendance
• Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JP

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