Sister / Charge Nurse

NHS; Borehamwood; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join NHS Blood and Transplant as a Registered Nurse leading a dedicated team to ensure high-quality donor care and safety. Be the driving force behind motivating Healthcare Assistants while utilizing your clinical expertise to manage blood donation processes effectively. This role emphasizes leadership, ongoing training, and a commitment to patient safety within a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration.
• Hold a full and valid UK driving license with no more than 6 points.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate Healthcare Assistants and Donor Care Supervisors.
• Ensure safe assessment and blood donation of donors.
• Take responsibility for maintaining team competency and skills.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Judgment

Communication

Patient Safety Awareness

Education

Registered Nurse Adult

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

You will be responsible for leading a team of Healthcare Assistants and Donor Care Supervisors, ensuring they are motivated, well-trained, and capable of delivering excellent care. You will be expected to foster a positive working environment, provide ongoing training, and support, and address any team issues or concerns that arise. You will use your clinical expertise and judgment to assess whether potential donors meet the necessary health and safety criteria for blood donation. This includes considering the donor's medical history, current health status, and any other relevant factors. This role requires strong leadership skills, clinical expertise, and a deep understanding of regulatory requirements. Youll be responsible for ensuring that the team delivers exceptional care while making critical decisions that affect donor safety and the overall quality of the service.

Main duties of the job

You will lead and motivate a team of Healthcare Assistants and Donor Care Supervisor(s) to provide and deliver a high standard of personal care. You will use your clinical judgement to make decisions about donor suitability to meet our regulatory and governance requirements. Your duties will include:-

• Taking clinical responsibility for ensuring the safe assessment and blood donation of our donors
• Being accountable for the safe running of a blood donation session
• Taking responsibility for ensuring an excellent donor experience
• Maintaining the competency and skills of your team and yourself
• Being able to adapt communication styles for difficult conversations
• Maintaining your professional development to help us deliver improvements to our practice

You will be required to work variable hours in order to lead at different blood collection sessions, including evenings, weekends and bank holidays. Night shifts are not required in this role.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do.By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration (which must be maintained) as Registered Nurse Adult
• Hold a full and valid UK driving licence with no more than 6 points

Experience

• Demonstrate leadership qualities and understand the principles of best practice to deliver high quality care
• Have experience of supporting the professional development of others
• Have an understanding of clinical audit and research
• Have experience of supporting improvements and change in practice
• Have an awareness of patient safety initiatives and risk management
• Have experience of working with Information Technology such as hand-held devices and Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

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.