Job summary
- Main area
- Renal
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1115
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hammersmith Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £66,718 - £76,271 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/06/2024
Employer heading
Dialysis Lead Nurse
Band 8b
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
The opportunity has arisen for a Lead Nurse in dialysis to join our team. We deliver dialysis services across the whole of North West London and work closely with stakeholders in the local District General Hospitals to ensure all of our patients receive an equitable service.
The Lead Nurse is accountable for managing over 300 nurses and is responsible for the day to day running of the units while also progressing the longer term strategy for the service along with a supportive and collaborative senior team
The Renal and Transplant directorate is a large complex service and this post is essential in the smooth running of the dialysis service.
If you have a passion for renal dialysis and you enjoy leading large teams of highly skilled nurses but also want a say in shaping the future which is exciting then come and join us
Main duties of the job
· Ensure agreed systems and process to consistently provide safe, effective high quality patient care and embed a culture of improvement, focusing on the Trust’s harm free indicators, measuring practice and using variations in the data to develop local improvement projects are in place.
· Support the delivery of care through visible clinical leadership, working in partnership with ward and department managers. Ensure that there are local systems and processes in place that support the delivery of kind, compassionate and respectful care, developing relationships with our patients that involve better listening and decision making; ‘ no decision about me without me’
· Ensure that the delivery of care across the Department meets the individual needs of all patients, including single-sex accommodation, providing adequate food and drink, basic hygiene needs and considers inclusivity and personalisation
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
Detailed job description and main 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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education and Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
- Renal Dialysis experience
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Experience of quality, safety standard setting and audit
- Organisation and management skills
- Negotiating skills
- Service improvement experience
- IT Skills (including Microsoft Office packages and fast and accurate keyboard skills)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Improving projects
- Clinical governance
- Change management
- Quality assurance
Desirable criteria
- Project Management
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
- Jane Fisher
- Job title
- Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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