Outpatient Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse - Breast Department

NHS; England; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a part-time Clinic Deputy Sister, leading the Breast Clinic Team. This permanent position involves delivering high-quality patient care, supporting a multi-disciplinary team, and ensuring efficient clinic operations. Ideal candidates will possess a degree in Nursing, NMC registration, and strong leadership skills.

Qualifications

• NMC Registered Nurse required.
• Experience within an acute hospital setting is essential.
• Awareness of current nursing issues and enthusiasm for ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the Breast Clinic Team to deliver high-quality patient care.
• Manage the smooth running of Breast clinics and support multi-disciplinary team collaboration.
• Assess and manage patient needs, providing clinical supervision to junior staff.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Clinical supervision

Patient advocacy

Service improvement

Education

Educated to Degree level in Nursing

Job description

Job Summary

We are looking for a part time (30 hours) band 6 Clinic Deputy Sister as a permanent post for the Breast Service.

As part of this post you will support the Nursing Leads of the Breast unit and Lead the clinic nursing team in the delivery of high quality care. This role will include coordinating the Breast Out-Patient team and supporting the efficient running of the department, leading on and providing holistic, high quality, patient-focused, safe and effective patient care.

The post-holder will need to communicate effectively across the multi-disciplinary team and provide strong leadership skills, acting as a senior professional role model and sharing skills and knowledge as well as effective and responsible use of Trust resources and engagement in both local and strategic change management. Monitor clinical outcomes and the patient experience, and play an active role in achieving positive patient outcomes by participating in and collecting data through audit.

Always acting within the Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust values and in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct and local standards of care and policies.

Main duties of the job

Lead the Breast Clinic Team, ensuring they are able to deliver safe, effective high-quality care to Breast patients.

• Coordinate and participate in the smooth running of the Breast clinics
• Practice effective communication and work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team
• Provide information and support patients and families, aiding informed decision-making.
• Act as a chaperone and patient advocate.
• Assess the physical and psychological needs of patients referring to appropriate health care professionals.
• Competently assess and manage breast and plastic surgical wounds.
• Provide clinical supervision.
• Demonstrate knowledge of Safeguarding both adults and children. Escalating when necessary.
• Ensure NMC standards are maintained for record keeping and medicines management.
• Lead on service improvement
• Participate in the recruitment and retention of staff
• Perform appraisals for the team
• Complete off duty for the nursing team
• Participate in risk management (Datix)
• Deal with complaints and PALS concerns
• Actively participate in team meetings
• Support the Senior nursing team in the Breast Unit
• Lead on new practice and service development using patient feedback for quality improvement
• Create and sustain a teaching environment leading to evidence-based practice development. Ensure team practice competencies are maintained (Compassly).
• Act as a mentor/supervisor to staff within the unit.
  
  

About Us

• Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications**
  
  

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital NHSTrust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Integrity
• Courage
  
  

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential.

The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

Details

Date posted

27 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year Per annum/pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

264-7265400-SUR

Job locations

Kettering General Hospital

Rothwell Road

Kettering

NN16 8UZ

Job Description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job descriptionlocatedunder the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the Shortlisting Criteria section of the document.

Job Description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job descriptionlocatedunder the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the Shortlisting Criteria section of the document.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse
• Educated to Degree level of Nursing or an equivalent level of education, training, or experience.
  
  

Desirable

• Mentor or Leadership Qualification
  
  

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Experience within an acute setting in a hospital environment
• Enthusiasm for learning and a commitment to ongoing professional development
• Awareness and understanding of current issues within nursing, midwifery, and the wider NHS
  
  

Desirable

• Experience in Breast and Plastic Surgical Nursing
  
  

Skills

Essential

• The ability to foster a positive learning culture
• The ability to demonstrate accuracy in personal record keeping and adhere to information governance regulations regarding storage and sharing of data.
• The ability to communicate with patients and their families/carers during a highly stressful time, able to alter communication strategies dependent on the situation and the patient's status
• Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure provision of a high-quality nursing service
• The ability to organise, prioritise and adjust own workload in relation to the priorities of the department
• Able to allocate and delegate workload responsibly and mentor the work of others, providing clinical supervision to junior staff
• The ability to make changes to own practice and offer suggestions to aid service improvement
  
  

Person Specification

Essential

• The ability to foster a positive learning culture
• The ability to demonstrate accuracy in personal record keeping and adhere to information governance regulations regarding storage and sharing of data.
• The ability to communicate with patients and their families/carers during a highly stressful time, able to alter communication strategies dependent on the situation and the patient's status
• Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure provision of a high-quality nursing service
• The ability to organise, prioritise and adjust own workload in relation to the priorities of the department
• Able to allocate and delegate workload responsibly and mentor the work of others, providing clinical supervision to junior staff
• The ability to make changes to own practice and offer suggestions to aid service improvement
  
  

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kettering General Hospital

Rothwell Road

Kettering

NN16 8UZ

Employer's website

https://www.kgh.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kettering General Hospital

Rothwell Road

Kettering

NN16 8UZ

Employer's website

https://www.kgh.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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