Registered Nurse Outpatients | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Bedford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Bedfordshire is seeking a skilled professional to coordinate clinics and assist with minor procedures. The role includes providing direct clinical care, supervising junior staff, and ensuring adherence to guidelines. Ideal candidates should have strong clinical skills and flexibility to meet service demands. Join a high-performing Trust dedicated to staff development and patient care.

Qualifications

• Flexibility to work in all areas including evenings and weekends.
• Ability to supervise and teach staff including pre- and post-registration students.
• Expert clinical knowledge and skills in nursing practice.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate clinics and support patients across various specialities.
• Provide patient advocacy and chaperoning in outpatient departments.
• Assist with minor procedures such as fine needle biopsies and core biopsies.

Job description

Overview

The post holder coordinates clinics across all specialities and assists with minor procedure clinics, ensuring adherence to NICE guidelines, theatre processes, and WHO checklists. They support patients in all clinics, assist with fine needle and core biopsies, and provide patient advocacy and chaperoning in OPD departments. The role includes direct clinical care for individuals and groups, with potential designation to coordinate the department in the absence of the department Sister. The post holder will supervise junior staff and be able to teach qualified and unqualified staff, including pre- and post-registration students. The role requires flexibility to work in all areas as needed to meet service demands, including evenings and weekends with no set days.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people across Bedfordshire and surrounding areas across two hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both sites offer key services such as A&E, obstetrics-led maternity and paediatrics. You will join a friendly, high-performing Trust committed to staff health and wellbeing. The Trust supports high-quality training and development to help grow your career and is committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

We recruit based on qualifications and experience and on behaviours that underpin our core values. We promote equality and diversity and strive to create a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when a sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering the first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all attached documents to familiarize yourself with all job requirements.

Key Responsibilities

1. Act as a professional role model to junior staff and demonstrate leadership qualities.
2. Provide expert clinical knowledge and skills within the departments.
3. Work with the department manager and nursing team to develop and promote best nursing practice.
4. Ensure that self and other professionals adhere to infection control best practice and policies in all clinical work; seek advice/support as necessary from senior staff or the infection control team.
5. Maintain accurate and clear documentation of all nursing care and communication with the multidisciplinary team.
6. Communicate with patients and relatives in a sensitive manner, providing information regarding care and progress as required.
7. Actively assist the department manager in implementing change and service developments.
8. Undertake projects or link roles for the ward as designated by the department manager, disseminating information to all staff as required.
9. Adhere to the outpatient local E-Rostering policy for off duty production, working flexibly to enhance teamwork and patient care (usually 3 weeks notice).
10. Acknowledge clinical limitations, seek advice appropriately, and act in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Practice.
11. Coordinate the day-to-day running of clinics, assisting and supporting team members in all OPD areas.
12. Prepare clinical areas for clinics (including Chest/Ombersley house) and be aware of other departments where rotation may be required (e.g., main OPD, ENT, cardiology & oral and maxillofacial areas); have awareness and competence of decontamination procedures and policies.
13. Assist clinicians in undertaking sterile procedures including minor procedure clinics, fine needle biopsies, core biopsies, and nasal endoscopes.
14. Organise own workload and take responsibility for the maintenance of the work area.
15. Be aware of the safe storage of hazardous substances (e.g., formalin and liquid nitrogen).

Please see the Job Description for specific duties, which may be amended at any time.

This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Sep 2025