Senior Sister

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Camberley; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider is looking for an experienced Senior Sister to manage the Short Stay Surgery ward at Frimley Park Hospital. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in elective surgery, excellent leadership skills, and a commitment to patient care. Responsibilities include providing clinical leadership, managing staff, and ensuring high-quality care standards in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

First class development opportunities

Support for a healthy work-life balance

Qualifications

• Proven ability in supervising and managing a unit effectively.
• Experience in UGI, Colorectal, Urology, Breast, ENT, or Gynae surgeries.
• Ability to deal with challenging situations in a calm manner.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Short Stay Surgery ward ensuring high standards of care.
• Manage operational aspects including staffing and patient flow.
• Champion patient safety and positive experiences.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical knowledge in elective surgery

Communication skills

Team management

Education

Registered Nurse

Mentorship

Tools

Electronic records experience (EPIC)

Job description

Job Overview

Location: Frimley Park Hospital

Specialties Covered: UGI, Urology, Colorectal, Breast, ENT, and Gynaecological Elective Surgeries

An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen for a Senior Sister to lead the Short Stay Surgery ward at Frimley Park Hospital. This busy elective surgical unit delivers care across a wide range of specialities, and we are seeking a resilient, enthusiastic, and dynamic nurse leader to take on this rewarding role.

As Senior Sister, you will play a vital role in the day-to-day management and clinical leadership of the ward, ensuring the highest standards of patient care and safety. You will lead by example, working alongside your team to provide visible senior clinical support, mentor staff, and uphold the Trust’s core values.

In This Position, You Will Be Responsible For

• Providing clear leadership and direction to nursing staff on a busy elective surgical ward
• Championing high-quality care, patient safety, and positive patient experience
• Managing operational aspects of the ward, including staffing, patient flow, and resource management
• Upholding and modelling the Trust values, challenging poor practice and celebrating team successes
• Participating in the Senior Duty Nurse rota, contributing to wider site management
  
  

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who demonstrates excellent communication, interpersonal, and customer care skills, and who thrives in a fast-paced environment. A passion for elective surgical care and a commitment to staff development and continuous improvement are essential.

Main duties of the job

This role requires close working relationships with a wide range of the multi-disciplinary/speciality teams, the Consultants, Heads of Nursing, Matrons, Ward Managers and the Clinical Site Management team. To succeed in this role, you will need to possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You will need to have the ability to deal with challenging situations in a fast-paced environment in a professional and calm manner.

You must have a proven ability in supervising, managing and controlling the activities of a unit in an effective and efficient manner. You will be a clinical role model and have a willingness to develop the team as well as your own professional growth. You will have excellent communication skills and high clinical standards with a passion to make a difference for patients and staff alike.

You must have recent experience of working in a senior nurse role within UGI, Colorectal, Urology, Breast, ENT or Gynae surgery and must be able to demonstrate clinical knowledge and skills in caring for patients, including acutely unwell and deteriorating patients, and patients on elective pathways. You will be knowledgeable regarding the speciality, plus fully understand governance and its importance in promoting and maintaining a safe environment for patients, visitors and staff and proactively monitor and feedback compliance.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please review the attached job description and person specification that are combined and linked to this advert.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse
• Mentorship
• Evidence of further CPD qualifications
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Successful completion of a leadership and development programme equivalent to the Internal Band 6 Leadership and Development programme
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to perform clinical duties commensurate to that of the role e.g. IV medications, Cannulation
• Ability to assess patients; develop, implement, and evaluate a plan of care.
• Ability to safely administer medicines in accordance with NMC Guidelines for the administration of medicines (2002).
• Ability to support professional development and create a learning environment.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Computer literacy with electronic records experience (EPIC)
• Experience of budgetary management
• Experience of managing a clinical area
• Completion of Yellow Belt or knowledge of continuous improvement methodology.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Relevant level of experience as a Band 6 in a surgical ward
• Experience of managing a team and can effectively function as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience working at Band 7 level
• Evidence of clinical competence in area of Colorectal, UGI, Urology, Breast, ENT and Gynae surgery
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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