Job summary
Employer heading
ED BBV Clinical Nurse
Band 7
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced charge nurse to join the ED Blood bourne Virus team in Barts Health NHS Trust as part of a national BBV testing scheme. The successful candidate will be involved in service delivery, clinical development programs, support and development of the MDT team to provide a safe, high quality patient focused care.
Barts Health ED services offers:
- A strong, well led and organized teams who work hard to provide patients with the Safe and Compassionate Care that we would expect for ourselves or loved ones.
- The opportunity to nurse a wide variety of specialists conditions in a supportive environment with the multi – disciplinary team.
- Relevant Professional Development including in house opportunities for learnin
If you are interested in applying but would like further information about the role, or wish to have an informal discussion, please contact Robert Hammond on 07878 109478 or email [email protected]
Main duties of the job
This fixed term role is for the research, development, and delivery of a testing program for blood borne viruses within Barts Health NHS Trust for a period of 1 year.
The post holder will provide an autonomous clinical and advisory nursing service and lead on the development and improvement of the ED BBV Opt Out Testing programme at Barts Health NHS Trust
The post holder will publicise the programme within Barts Health NHS Trust and broadly within the North East London community working with communications team.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
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 documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Adult NMC Registration
- Intravenous accreditation
- Evidence of management/leadership skills
Desirable criteria
- Other degree or masters level in nursing, education, research or statistics
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience at band 6 or higher
- Confidentiality, data protection and information governance within the NHS
- Evidence of teaching and learning experience in the clinical and classroom setting
- Motivated and able to work independently when required
- Work well in a multidisciplinary team
- Caring, compassionate and respectful of patients and colleagues
- Ethos of lifelong learning and a desire to continually gain and improve knowledge and skills.
- Commitment to clinical audit and Clinical Governance.
Desirable criteria
- Experience managing a team.
- Leadership courses or qualifications.
- Statistics or database experience
- Management of blood borne viruses
- Practice development training
- Research awareness
- Awareness of resource management issues including budget control skills
Skills
Essential criteria
- Positive attitude to change.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Communicate effectively with patients, colleagues locally and across the trust, in writing or presentation and by telephone/remotely.
- Ability to prioritise own work and support that of others across the trust
- Delegation skills: ensuring others adhere to organisational policies, protocols and procedures.
- Coach and mentor junior staff in clinical skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience in delivering medical education.
- Evidence of delivery of previous QI project(s)
Other
Essential criteria
- Commitment to teaching/supervision
- Flexible
- Good interpersonal skills
- Inspires trust and confidence
- Approachable
- Problem solving approach
- Recognises own limitations and how to resolve issues and situations
- Able to care for the physical and emotional needs of others
- Dress in accordance with trust policy
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
- Sophie Buck
- Job title
- ED General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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