Unit Manager - Chemotherapy RBTH

at  East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Are you an experienced Systemic Anti Cancer Therapy ( SACT) nurse looking to progress in your career.
The post holder will be responsible and accountable for the overall clinical and operational day to day delivery, of clinical standards of care and the leadership and management of the SACT/ Haematology Unit.
The post holder will work across all ELHT sites ensuring systems are in place to ensure staff are supported and supervised appropriately.
You will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary environment to ensure the delivery of safe, personal and effective care with excellent outcomes and positive experiences for all service users and their significant others.
Main duties
¨ Ensure a robust professional approach to service development and improvement.
¨ Develop and maintain communication with multidisciplinary teams on complex matters, contribute to improving quality and ensure the delivery of high quality of care, promote equality and value diversity.
¨ Organises and deploys staff according to competence, and service need.
¨ Support and challenge team members as appropriate.
¨ Addresses’ complaints by patients, members of the public and staff in accordance with Trust value’s
¨ Ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of staff, patients and visitors.
¨ Ensure patient records are maintained and that documentation reflects care provided.
¨ Involve patients and carers/relatives in the planning and delivery of services within the clinical area.
¨ Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patient needs are met.
¨ Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives.
¨ Be actively involved in the administration of chemotherapy and other clinical nursing duties and be the lead practitioner for training nursing staff in the administration of chemotherapy.
¨ Ensure that adequate precautions are taken by self and all members of staff to minimise the risk of infection in relation to the safe disposal of body fluids, including blood products.
Established in 2003 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen.
Our vision is to be widely recognized for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. We employ over 8,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements.

COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP

¨ Provides and receives complex sensitive or contentious information and anticipates barriers to communication, whilst recognising factors that may influence the situation and pro-actively seeking out solutions to improve communication
¨ Communicate effectively with a wide range of the multidisciplinary team and stake holder’s, including rep’s and outside agencies.
¨ Communicate with patient’s relatives in a manner consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background and preferred ways of understanding.
¨ To be empathetic and reassuring when communicating sensitive information and advice to patients, carers and relatives or employees
¨ To ensure that essential information on the patients’ condition and progress is recorded by self and team members appropriately according to NMC guidelines.
¨ Provide leadership to support and give guidance to ensure the highest standards of care.
¨ Inspire others and encourage them to seek advice and solutions to problem’s
¨ Encourage others to take an active part in developing knowledge, ideas, and work practice.
¨ Identify and manage challenging behaviours, within teams.
¨ Implementing and evaluating leadership development and supporting and enabling staff in their leadership roles in clinical practice
¨ Support the activities of the senior management team in delivery of National Performance Targets NHS Improvement Plan.
¨ Act on concerns reported by team members or service users.
¨ Ensure working hours of staff are managed to maintain a health work/life balance and comply with the European Working Time Directive.
¨ Have a flexible approach rostering and working times to support the services and work life balance.
¨ Maintain good communications with local Cancer centres and units to help achieve standardised policies and procedures.
¨ Develop the services within the clinic area and implement service improvement.

ORGANISATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

¨ To continuously monitor and take effective action to address quality issues and promote quality
¨ To raise quality issues and related risks with relevant people, and follow this up, addressing poor performance as per Trust policy e.g., complaints, incidents, poor communication.
¨ To inform and influence of Clinical Governance Issues, ensure risk register is kept up
to date and managed.
¨ Budget holder with responsibility for the authorising and controlling of financial resources which includes the management of equipment and contract agreement’s, monitoring and reviewing of all staffing budgets.
¨ Manage staff sickness as per trust policy
¨ Manage poor performance as per trust policy
¨ Planning / organising of clinic’s and monitor activities as needed
¨ Be involved in developing and promoting the service
¨ Clinical Audit and support Clinical research projects.

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

¨ Continuing responsibility for the management of the department over 5 days.
¨ Provide cross site Band 7 cover on the SACT unit.
¨ Ensures targets are delivered and if necessary, implements measures to
achieve them.
¨ Is responsible for ensuring that the Department expenditure stays within the budgetary allowance. Identifies problem areas and acts accordingly.
¨ Plans the employment/deployment of staff within the department and ensures that safe staffing levels are maintained.
¨ Identifies training and development needs for staff through appraisal, and service need.
Ensure effective and efficient rostering, and management of annual leave
¨ Participates in the recruitment and selection of staff for own area’s of responsibility.
¨ Involved in all departmental activities and management decisions aimed at improving and developing the quality and cost effectiveness of the service.
¨ Support the achievement of performance targets for waiting times.
¨ Core member of the Chemotherapy Multiprofessional meetings.
¨ Work alongside the Practice educator, providing support with training.
¨ To be part of the Band 7 on call roster within the Trust, providing support to the on call Matron