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Job summary

Main area
Outpatients
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Need to cover both Stanmore and Bolsover sites)
Job ref
392-RNOH-733-B-B
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Town
Stanmore
Salary
£56,388 - £62,785 Per Annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust logo

Lead Nurse for Clinical Support Services- OPD

Band 8a

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

Band 8a

37.5 hours per week

An exciting opportunity to become the Lead Nurse  for the clinical support services at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Outpatient services. 

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a highly motivated, skilled, compassionate, and knowledgeable senior nurse to lead, support and work closely with the clinicians and managers in the Outpatient Departments at both Stanmore and Bolsover Street, the Surgical Admissions & Procedure Unit and the Bed Management & Discharge Team.

The Lead Nurse is required to provide clinical leadership, professional education and training and to contribute to the Clinical Governance and the Research and Development Agenda. They will also work closely with the divisional leadership team.

Working for our organisation

The ideal candidate will have significant experience of working in the NHS. Candidates should have excellent organisational and communications skills, be able to work under pressure whilst ensuring all deadlines are achieved.

Cross site working is expected with this post.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are you an experienced Nurse who is currently looking for new opportunities?

NMC registration as an RN is essential as is a teaching and mentoring qualification or relevant experience. You will have a degree and preferably be working towards a MSc. Knowledge of orthopaedic conditions is desirable.

There will be opportunities for development and support, and we are looking for someone who has experience in managing change and is able to adapt and work flexibly depending on the changing needs of services. We would want for someone to role model leadership and have and interest in supporting and developing  local leaders in their areas. 

You will be expected to work closely in particular, with the lead nurse for Admissions, Bed management and complex discharge team.

We look forward to meeting you to discuss what we can offer you here at the RNOH in return for your commitment, dedication and passion for nursing in this specialist area. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse
  • Intravenous accreditation
  • Mentorship course or equivalent
  • Specialist Clinical Orthopaedic Course or relevant experience
  • Minimum 2 years as Senior Sister/CN or CNS
  • BSc Nursing or working towards
Desirable criteria
  • MSc or working towards
  • Leadership Qualification or equivalent experience

Communication

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work as part of a multi- disciplinary team
  • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Department/Trust/ Organisations
  • The ability to communicate with patients in an empathetic manner regarding their treatment and procedures.
  • Can demonstrate an enthusiastic, approachable and friendly manner
  • Ability communicate effectively, both written and oral

Personal and People Development

Essential criteria
  • Experienced in teaching and sharing knowledge
  • Understanding of own Knowledge and Skills Framework and ability to identify others learning needs and interests
  • Ability to self reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what s/he needs to learn to able to do current job better
  • Mentorship, preceptorship, assessment and appraisal experience and skills
  • Proven track record in budget management
  • Ability to work flexible hours to meet service requirements

Health, safety and security

Essential criteria
  • Acts in a way that is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures and abide by the Trust Health and Safety policies
  • Ability to support others in maintaining health, safety and security
  • Ability to identify how to manage risks and help others manage risks

Service Improvement

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of current and emerging NHS strategy and policy
  • Knowledge and understanding of NHS and Trust performance targets
  • Effectively carries out tasks related to evaluating services.
  • Ability to lead the nursing team in service improvement
  • Change management experience

Quality

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work within set time frames working to priorities and deadlines
  • Ability to monitor the quality of own and others work
  • Ability to use and maintain resources efficiently and effectively and encourage others to do so
  • Can prove a good computer literacy in Windows and IT systems
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of the Integrated Care Boards and how they liaise and assist the Trust

Equality and Diversity

Essential criteria
  • Ability to treat everyone with whom s/he comes into contact with dignity and respect
  • Experience of Equal Opportunity policies and procedures
  • Ability to identify and take action when own or other’s undermines equality and diversity

Assessment and care planning to meet health and wellbeing needs

Essential criteria
  • Can show a non-judgemental approach to patient care prioritise clinical care
  • Ability to prioritise clinical work effectively
  • Can demonstrate a knowledge of current and emerging health care issues

Learning and Development

Essential criteria
  • Ability to provide formal teaching development to staff/colleagues.
  • Ability to evaluate effectiveness of learning activities and identifies how it could be improved

People Management

Essential criteria
  • Ability to plan allocate and supervise the work of a team
  • Ability to support staff during the NHS development review process
  • Ability to assess the work of the team, provide clear constructive feedback to the team in order to maintain and improve performance

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kristin Gustafsen
Job title
Unit Director for PACSS
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 954 1276
Additional information

Kristin Gustafsen can also be contacted on mobile via the Trust switchboard.