Site Nurse Practitioner

University Hospitals Sussex Nhs Foundation Trust; Worthing; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship available

Induction programme

Staff development and progression

Hospital at Night experience

Job summary

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Band 7 Site Nurse Practitioner at Worthing Hospital, seconded to cover maternity leave for one year. The post offers exposure to hospital-wide management tasks and autonomous clinical practice within the Site Management Team.

You will work across emergency and elective pathways, manage bed capacity, and contribute to the Hospital at Night team. Induction will support your progression in a busy acute setting.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with current practising licence.
• Demonstrates ongoing professional development.
• Teaching qualification or willingness to undertake.
• Current Band 6 with significant acute hospital experience.
• High standards of nursing care.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate patient placement and bed management across inpatient units.
• Provide senior nursing support with advanced assessment and clinical management.
• Ensure timely assessment, referrals and transfers from A&E and other areas.
• Troubleshoot patient pathways to improve experience and outcomes.
• Act as out-of-hours point of contact and implement overnight plans with Clinical Site Manager.

Skills

Autonomous practice

Clinical leadership

Communication skills

Teaching & coaching

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing

NMC registered nurse

Job description

Job overview

Opportunity to join the Site Management Team as a Band 7 Site Nurse Practitioner at Worthing Hospital . This role is a secondment to cover maternity leave for one year and is an exciting opportunity to gain insight and experience in the management of the hospital.

We are a small, well motivated and hard working team using our clinical as well as management and organisational skills on a daily basis.

Our challenges vary every day, making it a great role for staff to liaise with the many specialities and departments within the hospital. We are often dealing with clinical emergencies anywhere on site, where you will need to work as an autonomous practitioner as well as part of an emergency team. The role also involves managing ongoing bed capacity throughout the day, so if you like solving puzzles, then this is the role for you.
We offer you an induction period and support you at every stage of your progression.

The role carries significant responsibilities such as managing site issues on a 24 hour basis and involving night rotation, where you will be part of the Hospital at Night team.

You will need a significant experience a Band 6 at that level, also ward management would be an advantage. This is a great opportunity to broaden your knowledge.
If you are looking for a challenge, then this is it, you will need to be able to communicate effectively, solve complex problems whilst thinking on your feet, and have good negotiation skills, as well as a sense of humour.

This role is eligible for visa sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. Sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements set by UKVI, including the relevant skill and salary thresholds, and any role-specific criteria. For example, applicants for the Senior HCA role must be able to evidence a minimum of 2 years’ experience in the same role to qualify for sponsorship.

If you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at time of application.

Main duties of the job

1. Responsibility for the timely and appropriate clinical placement of patients by planning and managing the effective utilisation of inpatient beds providing an efficient and effective service for both emergency and elective admissions.

2. To provide senior nurse support through advanced assessment skills, clinical interventions and clinical management support for all the clinical areas where needed.

3. To ensure that patients receive timely assessment, referral and transfer from the A&E department and assessment areas in order that clinical care can be optimum and the national priorities achieved.

4. To troubleshoot during the patient pathway to assist the clinical areas to improve the patient experience.

5. You will act as the point of contact during the out of hours period, liaising with the on-call teams as necessary. You will be responsible for enacting the overnight plans discussed with the Clinical Site
Manager.

Working for our organisation

At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always deliver Excellent Care Everywhere, as shown in our Outstanding for Caring CQC rating. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of staff networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3) and a Veteran Aware Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role will actively support the patient’s pathway through the
hospital, both managerially and clinically. The three principle
responsibilities of this team are:

• To facilitate the timely and appropriate clinical placement of
  patients
• To provide clinical advanced nursing practice and decision making
• To operationally support and manage the hospital site 24 hours a
  day, 7 days a week.

The focus of the team is about crossing boundaries and identifying
solutions resulting in support and facilitation of an effective patient’s
pathway

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse
• Evidence of further ongoing professional development.
• Demonstrable teaching and coaching skills and teaching qualification
• Current Band 6 with significant experience in an acute setting
• Demonstrates high standards of nursing care
• First degree level qualification or equivalent experience
• ALS/ALERT Trained or willingness to undertake and successfully complete

Desirable criteria

• Management or Leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
• Professional Clinical qualification.

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential criteria

• A sense of personal and team accountability
• Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
• Negotiation
• Evidence based detailed knowledge and understanding of the operations of a major acute hospital.
• being able to establish clear work priorities, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
• Knowledge and understanding of Clinical Governance and risk management systems.
• Awareness of change management processes.
• Evidence of research based practice
• Substantial post-registration experience and/or experience that demonstrates effective management of complex clinical situations.
• Significant experience within an acute setting. Knowledge of patient flow /site management role

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrable Change management experience.
• Experience in delivering improvements to facilitate change that has direct patient benefits.
• Working with other stakeholders such as the ambulance service or primary care.
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of NHS Healthcare services and current priorities.
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of NHS Healthcare services and current priorities.

Skills

Essential criteria

• To be able to facilitate, motivate and influence individuals through facilitating and fostering excellent working relationships with other colleagues across the Trust.
• To manage difficult situations appropriately.
• To be able to communicate effectively in writing and verbally complex information to others.
• Understanding of Quality assurance and clinical audit.
• To plan and prioritise own workload and facilitate the effectiveness of the team through others.
• Proven effective logical and organisational skills.
• Proven ability to work as part of a team
• Previous involvement as part of team in policy or service development
• An awareness and understanding of financial budgets.
• Previous experience in supervising a group of staff and evidence of management skills
• Willingness to engage with changing technology and participate in the real time and mobile data to provide the business intelligence to support decision making
• Ability to use email and internet efficiently. Ability to use Microsoft Office packages including Word, Powerpoint and Excel.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Essential criteria

• Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
• Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role)

Important information for applicants:

A Note on AI Use in Applications

UHSussex values authenticity and encourages applicants to ensure that all application materials accurately reflect their own skills, experience, knowledge and motivations. Candidates may use AI and digital tools to support the preparation of applications, for example to assist with spelling, grammar, structure or accessibility needs. However, applicants remain responsible for the content submitted and should ensure that it genuinely represents their own abilities and experience. Where there are reasonable concerns that an application does not authentically reflect the applicant's own knowledge, skills, experience or suitability for the role, the Trust reserves the right to explore this further and, where authenticity cannot be satisfactorily demonstrated, to reject the application.

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Closing Adverts Early:

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Some of our adverts are capped for a limited number of applications; therefore, the advert will close once the cap has been reached. We therefore encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible if you are interested in the position to prevent you from missing out on applying for the opportunity.

Flexible Working:

If you would like to explore potential options regarding flexible working please speak with the appropriate recruiting/line manager.

DBS Checks:

As part of our commitment to a safe working environment, we undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check on all new employees where the role is eligible for a criminal record check . We make offers in line with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1975.

Skilled Worker Visa:

Applications for Skilled Worker sponsorship are welcome for the roles that meet the Visa and Immigrations eligibility criteria. For further information please visit the gov.uk website searching for Skilled Worker. It is your responsibility as the applicant to ensure that you meet this criteria.

UHSussex reserves the right to close the role early if we receive a high volume of applications