Senior Staff Nurse-Surrey Downs H&CNHS AfC : Band 6

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust; Molesey; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking a senior staff nurse in Molesey to enhance patient care management. The role involves working closely with team leads, supervising nursing staff, and coordinating care delivery. Ideal candidates will have 1st level registration and experience in team management and nursing. Responsibilities include developing care plans, facilitating educational programs, and ensuring quality standards. The position promotes a collaborative working environment and require ongoing professional development.

Qualifications

• 1st level registration required.
• Evidence of team management experience.
• Relevant post-registration nursing experience is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide skilled nursing care to patients, assessing their needs.
• Supervise nursing staff and ensure continuity of care.
• Facilitate education and training for nursing staff.

Skills

Leadership skills

Interpersonal and communication skills

IT skills

Ability to prioritize

Ability to assess, deliver, evaluate and benchmark quality care

Education

1st level registration

Evidence of continued professional development post registration

Relevant specialist courses

Teaching qualification

Job description

Job overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated senior staff nurse to join our team in a key role that supports the ongoing management and delivery of high-quality patient care within our clinical service. The post holder will work autonomously alongside the Team Lead, taking responsibility for the effective coordination of patient care and staff support, and acting as the senior point of contact in the absence of the Team Lead.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for the continuing management of the patients and/or staff within their clinical setting, without supervision alongside their team lead and taking the chain of command in the absence of their team lead.

This includes the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, the setting and maintaining of standards and the supervision and deployment of staff, if appropriate.

The post holder will undertake facilitation of educational programmes for basic, post basic and in‑service training, in close liaison with the Learning and Development Team.

To work closely with the senior team member to facilitate patient focused, innovative research based practice, in line with Surrey Downs Health and Care objectives.

Working for our organisation

Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.

Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centred care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:

• The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
• Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Surrey Council County

Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.

It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.

In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Work as a role model within the team undertaking lead responsibilities providing skilled nursing care to patients, assessing their immediate and long term needs and that of their family/carers, by informing, preparing and reviewing plans of care.
• Participate in and promote nursing research and project work within the clinical area to promote the delivery of skilled high quality care within the team and encourage others within the team to diversify their skill set. Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC guidelines.
• Treat all patients as individuals, respecting their privacy and dignity at all times involving, supporting, informing and educating family/carers where appropriate.
• Take every opportunity to promote the health and wellbeing of the patient.
• In the absence of the senior team member, be responsible for planning cover, appropriate staffing and skill mix ensuring adequate cover at all times, deputising as appropriate.
• Ensure continuity of care between all clinical settings through appropriate timely planning and good communication through all available channels.
• Be responsible for individual timely data entry and as well ensuring wider corporate team’s data entry is maintained and supporting other team members to ensure their outcomes are delivered timely.
• Maintain clear and comprehensive, signed and contemporaneous records according to Surrey Downs Health and Care procedures.
• Ensure up to date knowledge in all aspects of clinical practice, and act as a resource and provide support and guidance for other staff.
• Be responsible for ensuring that policies and procedures and standards of care, are adhered to at all times.
• Support Surrey Downs Health and Care‘s process of clinical supervision for self and team member. Carry out monthly one-to-ones with the team including appraisals.
• Support the team lead where appropriate and assisting with delegated tasks and duties requested to support the service needs.
• Plan, participate in and evaluate teaching programmes for all levels of staff in liaison with the team lead and liaising with the Learning and Development Team to ensure competencies are maintained.
• Identify staff training and development needs and facilitate a good clinical learning environment for all members of the nursing team.
• Act as an assessor and mentor to qualified and unqualified staff. You will be the main support network for all new staff members within your team.
• Work within the budget allocated and ensure economic use of resources. Identify and monitor consumable levels with the administration team and approve usage of off-formulary requests.
• Participate in the recruitment and selection process when appropriate.
• Ensure maximum effectiveness of care by facilitating a multi-disciplinary approach, this includes holding team meeting in the absence of the team lead and responsible for forwarding on minutes to absent team members to ensure they are briefed.
• Be aware and act upon, when necessary procedures that are in place to protect vulnerable individuals. Liaising with safeguarding team and social services and support other team members in this process.
• Participate in the Surrey Downs Health and Care Clinical Governance Strategy, facilitating and instigating clinical audit and monitoring of care. Supporting Team Leads with Datix investigations and facilitating and supporting within Rapid Response Reviews (RRR’s).
• Participate in the Surrey Downs Health and Care Risk Management Strategy, ensuring that all processes are adhered to and reporting any identified risks to the team lead or operational manager.
• Undertake any such other duties as may be required from time to time as are consistent with responsibilities of the post.

Team members who are employed to work within Surrey Downs Health and Care localities and may be reasonably requested to move base temporarily or on a more permanent basis, as requested by service needs.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• 1st level registration
• Evidence of continued professional development post registration
• Relevant specialist courses

Desirable criteria

• Teaching qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Role model to others in both clinical and team cohesiveness
• Evidence of experience of team management and multi-disciplinary working
• Relevant post registration experience

Desirable criteria

• Specialist knowledge of the role
• Willingness to develop area of specialist interest
• Experience of appraisal and clinical supervision

Skills

Essential criteria

• Leadership skills
• Interpersonal and communication skills both verbal and written
• IT skills and timely data entry
• Ability to prioritize
• Ability to assess, deliver, evaluate and benchmark quality care

Other

Essential criteria

• Flexible
• Reliable
• Ability to work under pressure

Your application :

Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References :

You will be required to provide 3 years of employment / educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date :

In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting :

You will only be contacted via e‑mail / SMS if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e‑mail regularly.

DBS :

We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Mary Chadwick
Job title Interim operational manager
Email address
Telephone number 07918478865