Senior Nurse - Surgery

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Senior Nurse in Critical Care at a leading NHS trust in London. This role involves supporting ward sisters, leading a team, and ensuring high standards of patient care. Candidates should have a degree in nursing, leadership skills, and experience in critical care.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with a degree and evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Experience in critical care/acute care at a senior nursing level.
• Teaching, mentorship, and resource management experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure ward sisters have adequate support for their core responsibilities.
• Lead and develop the nursing team while managing change effectively.
• Handle complaints and participate in trust-wide initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem Solving

Organizational Skills

IT Utilization

Education

Degree level registered nurse

Educated to Masters level (or working towards)

Recognised teaching and assessing qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented, enthusiastic individual to join our surgical division as a Senior Nurse for Critical care, inpatient and outpatient services incorporating our specialist Orthopaedic centre. We are looking for an innovative, compassionate leader that will help support and develop the current team while upholding the Trust Values.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will ensure ward sisters have adequate support to enable them to focus on their core responsibilities.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree level registered nurse
• Educated to Masters level (or working towards)
• Evidence of ongoing professional development in relevant area of speciality supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
• Recognised teaching and assessing qualification

Experience

• Experience of working within the specialty of critical care/acute care in a senior nursing role
• Teaching, mentorship and supervision of staff
• Audit / research based nursing practice
• Resource management
• Change management
• Leading and developing a team
• Complaints handling
• Trust wide initiatives/committee membership
• Working at a senior nursing level at band 8a
• Delivering training

Knowledge

• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
• Ability to develop protocols and guidelines
• Understands the role of clinical governance and audit in provision of high quality critical care
• Knowledge of clinical incident and risk management
• Knowledge of infection control issues
• Budget and peoples management

Skills

• Evidence of both theoretical and practical skills and competency in critical care/acute care management
• Ability to lead and inspire a large team
• Evidence of leadership skills
• Works under own initiative with good organisational skills, can work to deadlines
• Able to use problem solving skills
• Articulate with advanced written and verbal communication skills
• Able to utilize IT to full potential
• Analyse complex information to make operational decisions
• Capable of working strategically
• Ability to manage change and deal with complex and difficult situations
• Ability to work effectively under pressure

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.