21 Oct
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Camberley
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, enthusiastic, and highly motivated registered nurse with a varied clinical experience to join the Childrens Ambulatory Care and Outpatients Unit. (CACOU)
The CACOU team are passionate about constantly improving our service and delivering high quality care to our patients.
We are looking for committed individuals with excellent organisational and leadership skills. Excellent interpersonal skills are required to lead and support the team and to undertake a wide range of administrative duties in tandem with clinical duties.
The successful candidate will demonstrate criteria set out in the Job Description and Person Specification.
Experience working in an outpatient clinic setting would be an advantage but not essential.
Main duties of the job
The candidate will be based at Frimley Park, there may be occasions where they will be required to work on one of our other sites.
The Outpatient team support multiple paediatric speciality clinics such as Oncology, Rheumatology, Allergy, Respiratory, Neonatal and Diabetic clinics.
You will act as an advocate for the patients, nursing and medical colleagues and actively participate in further developments and expansion of the outpatient’s service to help deliver the FHFT Future Strategy.
The post will also involve providing mentoring and supporting junior and new staff and all types of learners working in the department.
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
To work clinically providing visible leadership, direction, co-ordination,
and forward planning of services within the Frimley Park Childrens Ambulatory Care and Outpatients Unit. (CACOU)
You will serve as a prominent role model, leading by example, demonstrating diverse expert clinical skills, clear professional and organisational values while overseeing the OPD areas. Manage service needs and provide support to the Senior OPD team. In conjunction with Practice Development (PD), you will assess and actively support the Registered Nurses (RN) and Health Care Support Workers (HCSW) to practice competently and develop within their roles to ensure a high standard of care and patient experience are maintained in line with the Frimley Health Strategy, Vision, and Values.
To review and manage staff allocations using Health Roster and safe staffing model,
including annual leave and sickness management.
To lead on quality improvement projects as necessary.
Pro-actively respond and investigate complaints, follow these through and cascade information and learning to the wider team.
To liaise with Paediatric Matron and Senior Sisters about untoward incidents, and staffing concerns you will be involved in investigating and reporting these via the incident reporting system.
To actively lead and embed local and national initiatives, models of working and service development into practice.
To ensure compliance with all Frimley Health and OPD policies, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS) and guidelines, e.g. (but not limited to) consent, chaperoning, WHO checklist, COSHH,
Information Governance & Infection prevention and control.
To display an awareness of budgetary management.
Participate in the Frimley Health Excellence methodology, which requires a transformational mindset to create a culture of continuous improvement
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN with current UK NMC registration
- Supporting Learners in Practice (SLIP) or similar recognised qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Educated to Nursing Degree level or on degree pathway
- Level 6 leadership course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous demonstrable experience in an acute healthcare Trust.
- Evidence of proven recent leadership experience within an acute healthcare setting
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of previous Band 6 experience
- Experience within an Outpatients setting
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal). Ability to manage conflict/ difficult/ stressful situations, working calmly and effectively under pressure
- Effective time management, organisation, prioritisation, and delegation
- Effectively facilitate the supervision and assessment of learners and junior staff
- Effective IT skills: experience with using clinical patient information systems. Electronic Patient Record (EPIC)
- Able to prioritise workload and effectively manage a clinical area
Desirable criteria
- Excellent Computer skills, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, Word
- Evidence of Band 6 generic clinical and Nurse in Charge (NiC) competencies
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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