Nursing and Midwifery

NHS Grampian; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a dedicated Lead Nurse to join their dynamic team in Aberdeen. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, clinical experience, and a patient-centered approach. This role includes responsibilities such as coordinating nursing care and ensuring high standards of resident care, with various employee perks and support for professional development.

Benefits

Recruitment & retention bonus

Competitive enhanced pay

Company pension scheme

25 days of holiday

Online Wellbeing Centre

Qualifications

• Proven skilled hands-on leadership of a clinical team.
• Substantial clinical experience required.
• Management experience at NHS band 7 or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a high standard of resident care.
• Co-ordinate nursing care and support staff.
• Monitor quality of care and support quality improvement.

Skills

Hands-on leadership

Patient-centered philosophy

Excellent communication skills

IT literacy

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Overview

Lead Nurse

£33,637-£36,796 per annum

30 - 37.5 hours per week

Dee View Court, AB12 5JY

This is an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and compassionate Lead Nurse to join a dynamic, friendly and highly professional team caring for people with Neurological life limiting conditions.

The Lead Nurse role will play an integral part within our newly expanded Neurological centre.

Responsibilities

• Be innovative in maintaining an environment that is conducive to the delivery and maintenance of a high standard of resident care.
• Co-ordinate nursing care for residents with a focus on supervising and supporting staff and acting as a link between nursing staff and senior management.
• Monitor the quality of care for residents and support the head of care to deliver the quality improvement plan.
• Act as a role model to the nursing team within the designated clinical area for demonstrating and embedding the Sue Ryder Values and behavioural framework
• Promoting professional and courteous culture and ensuring best practice.

Lead Nurse Will Bring With Them

• Proven skilled hands on leadership of a clinical team
• Patient-centred philosophy
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Substantial clinical experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to plan effectively and very well organised
• Management experience at NHS band 7 or equivalent
• Experience of leading clinical teams and successful change management
• Knowledge of Care Inspectorate standards relevant to care setting
• Able to lead and motivate a team through a performance management structure
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills at all levels
• Able to prioritise workload and manage competing priorities
• Able to work independently and with others to ensure achievement of results
• IT literate, able to demonstrate proficiency in basic system such as MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint and web-based tools such as NHS and Local Authority Tools
• Able to analyse data and write reports
• A demonstrable ability to work across professional and organisational boundaries
• Current full driving licence

We Offer

Recruitment & retention bonus - a total payment of £3600 per annum, paid in 12 equal monthly instalments along with your normal pay (pro-rata for part-time staff)

• Competitive enhanced pay for nights (30%), weekends (45%) and public holidays (60%)
• Company pension scheme
• 25 days holiday - rising to 30 with length of service plus bank holidays
• Option to buy and sell up to five days holiday
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Enhanced sick pay
• Corporate discount with hundreds of retailers and services
• Staff discount of 15% on new goods online at shop.sueryder.org
• Season ticket loan
• Cash referral bonus scheme
• Online Wellbeing Centre
• Free Will writing service
• Staff finance loans
• Free uniform
• Carers leave policy
• Subsidised onsite meals and drinks
• Structured induction programme and learning and development opportunities.