Are you an enthusiastic, dynamic, innovative senior Nurse with a passion for quality and safety, and the drive and commitment to get it right for every patient every time?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse to manage our elective surgical day-case / 23 hour stay on Ward 15, Solihull.

For this role you will need to demonstrate excellent communication and leadership skills. As the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse you must display a positive and professional manner and be open to change, being flexible and confident with the ability to manage a varied workload, as well as supervise, support and develop others in your newly established team.

To be considered for the role you should be an experienced Registered Nurse, with at least 2 years' experience at Band 6.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a confident committed visible clinical leader who is driven by challenges and demonstrate personal resilience when working in a fast moving and changing care environment. You should have experience of staff change management, leading by example, motivating, and empowering your team to ensure consistently high standards of care are set and delivered.

Demonstrating critical analysis and decision-making skills, leading the delivery of consistent high standards of evidence-based care, influencing and facilitating change within the ward / department.

Responsible for carrying out clinical practice within designated clinical area(s) ensuring that high quality, current evidence-based nursing care underpins all actions and interactions with patients.

Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through effective use and integration of evidence base practice, setting implementing and monitoring evidence-based standards of care, policies, procedures and protocols through regular audit. Be accountable in ensuring all clinical/ documentation/ activity and flow audits are completed and submitted in a timely manner, make changes to care delivery as required to sustain and improvement practice standards.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• *Registered Adult Nurse on NMC register

Desirable

• *Health care management / Leadership Qualification

Experience

Essential

• *Professional Portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
• *Substantial relevant and recent clinical experience within a complex health care setting or Acute NHS setting working as a deputy Manager Band 6 position including the supervision and education of junior staff/ students .
• *Can demonstrate understanding / experience / in practice based supervision / assessment as detailed in the Nursing & Midwifery Council ( NMC ) standards for student supervision and assessment
• *Demonstrable current, recent experience of team leadership and management within the healthcare setting.
• *Demonstrable understanding of the management responsibility for pay and non-pay resources associated with the clinical service.
• *Evidence of effective multi-professional working.
• *Experience of being a mentor
• *Demonstration of a significant contribution to innovative practice or change management
• *Experience in interviewing and selection of staff
• *Experience in learning from incidents /complaints and supporting changes in practice
• *Demonstrate an ability, experience, passion in the following areas. (E )
• oLeadership
• oTeam building
• oManaging Resources
• oTime management
• oRole modelling
• oChange management/ clinical developments
• oClinical governance
• oAudit and research
• oWorkforce planning / management
• oNHS policy and political awareness
• oKnowledge of clinical governance

Additional Criteria

Essential

• *Demonstrates the key strengths and motivators for relating to others.
• *Competence in expanded clinical practice associated with the role.
• *Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• *I.T skills
• *Proven ability to analyse data and identify data trends
• *Able to effectively present information to groups /health care professionals.
• *Ability to work under pressure across competing demands /properties.
• *Positive and enthusiastic attitude
• *Approachable and friendly
• *Supportive
• *Flexible
• * Well organised
• *Good communicator
• *Ability to delegate and supervise
• TBC at appointment
• *Willingness to work core shift patterns for the area Monday to Friday with occasional out of hours /weekend working
• OR
• *Undertake a range of shift patterns to cover 24/7 period when working as part of a peer group with occasions of out of hours / weekend working

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Solihull Hospital

Lode Ln

Solihull

West Midlands

B91 2JL

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