Post Operative Senior Sister / Senior Charge Nurse

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting and new opportunity has arisen for a Post Operative Senior Sister / Senior Charge Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team of nurses in Heatherwood Hospital Elective Centre.
If you are an experienced nurse/ charge nurse and looking for your next challenge, could this be a role for you?
The post holder will undertake and supervise clinical practice, audit, research, and teaching to set, monitor and continuously improve standards of care and patient experience.
The nursing team provide high standards of post operative quality care, whilst ensuring patients have the best possible experience.
You will be operationally responsible to manage Post Operative Service at Heatherwood Centre and will be instrumental in supporting strategic changes and improvement initiatives for the department.
Post holder is expected to work collaboratively with In Patient and Out Patient teams as well as our Specialist Nurses, Consultants and Support Teams. You must demonstrate excellent EPIC / IT, organisational and managerial skills and show a commitment to ensuring high standards of care, safety and quality are maintained.
We have achieved GIRFT accreditation as Elective Centre and we are having passion for excellence and innovative approach in all that we do and working together to put patients first.
Our aim is to create an outstanding place to work; one that is friendly and supportive, as well as rewarding on a personal and professional level.
To be managerially responsible for the Nurses in the department within the agreed establishment figures. To have budgetary responsibility for the rostering of staff and to actively participate in the clinical activity, provide cover as needed within establishment. To provide the leadership and management, organisation, teaching and development of the nursing team and expand the Post Operative Service within variety of Specialist Services. To collaborate closely with Clinical nurse specialists and wider MDT in developing and providing specialised nursing care programmes to a diverse range of patients.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
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 .
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital’s NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
The post holder will be accountable for ensuring the highest standard of clinical care is provided within the relevant setting. They will be easily identifiable to clients and users, provide strong, visible leadership and have the appropriate level of authority to provide support, advice and assistance required by patients, their families and carers. Emphasis on the areas of Patient/Client Safety, Patient Experience, User engagement and Clinical Outcomes will be essential

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