Senior Charge Nurse/Clinical Lead Practitioner AA

NHS National Services Scotland; Kirkcaldy; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS National Services Scotland is seeking a Band 7 Senior Charge Nurse/Clinical Lead to join the Theatres at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, overseeing 11 theatres and a 24/7 Emergency theatre.

You will provide professional and clinical leadership, ensure patient-centred care, and meet standards of care. Applicants must hold NMC or HCPC registration, be educated to degree level or working towards it, and be eligible to work in the UK; PVG clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
• Evidence of effective staff management skills/experience
• Excellent time management and communication skills.
• Excellent organisational and problem solving skills
• Possess team working and building skills and have the ability to motivate others
• Evidence of being able to work using own initiative

Responsibilities

• Provide professional and clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team in the operating department.
• Plan and implement patient-centred care and set standards of care within the theatre suite.
• Oversee safe, efficient and effective management of the operating theatre.
• Lead and coordinate designated clinical specialties within the theatres.

Skills

CPD evidence

Staff management

Time management

Communication

Organisational skills

Problem solving

Team working

Initiative

Education

Degree level qualification or working towards

Job description

We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 7 Senior Charge Nurse/Clinical Lead to join our Theatres at the Victoria Hospital Kirkcaldy. You will have theatre experience at a senior level and be able to demonstrate on-going professional development.

The theatre suite encompasses 11 theatres and provides services for a number of specialties including Elective Orthopaedics, Trauma, ENT, General Surgery, Urology, Gynaecology, Robotics and Maxillofacial, This includes a 24/7 Emergency theatre and Obstetric Theatre. There are a further 3 elective orthopaedic theatre on site.

The post holder along with other SCN/Clinical leads carries continuing responsibility for the theatre suite ensuring safe, efficient and effective management of the operating theatre with specific responsibility for designated clinical specialties.

The post holder will provide professional and clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team and will be responsible for planning and implementing patient centred care, and for the setting of standards of care within the operating department.

Applicants must hold First Level Registration with either NMC or HCPC.

Applicants should be educated to degree level or working towards or equivalent level of knowledge and experience.

Applicants must have -

• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
• Evidence of effective staff management skills / experience
• Excellent time management and communication skills.
• Excellent organisational and problem solving skills
• Possess team working and building skills and have the ability to motivate others
• Evidence of being able to work using own initiative

This post is fixed term for 12 months

A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.

NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK websitehere.

For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be foundhere. It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.