Area Nurse - West

Job Summary

As an Area Nurse in this autonomous role, you will lead and motivate a team of Healthcare Assistants on donation teams across the Central West area, consisting of Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, and Worcester. You will use your clinical judgement to make safe decisions about suitability and ensure your teams deliver a high standard of care that enables us to meet our regulatory and governance requirements.

We need your leadership and management skills to ensure that patients receive safe blood and blood products, and our donors feel safe and cared for. By giving the best experience that we can for our donors, you will ensure they will want to return time and time again.

No prior specialist knowledge is required for this band 6 role; we value what you bring. If you are able to work independently, lead with compassion and resilience, excited by the prospect of enabling change in a fast-moving environment, then this is the job for you. We will provide all the training and support you will need with excellent learning and development opportunities and career progression.

The shift pattern is 8 days per fortnight, totalling 75 hours. This will include regular weekend and Bank Holiday working. Shifts are approximately 9.5 hours long. The earliest shift time could be 07:30 with a finish time of approximately 16:40. On a late shift you could start at 10:30 and finish at approximately 21:15.

As this is an area role, you will be travelling regularly across the area but you will be based at either Bristol Filton, Gloucester, or Bristol Emerald Park to be agreed at interview.

Responsibilities

Using your clinical experience and knowledge, you will lead your team to ensure both the safety of our donors and the supply of safe blood products to patients. Your responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing the clinical assessment of donor eligibility and leading on all aspects of donor care.
• Accountability for the effective delivery of both operational and clinical standards of care and donor experience.
• Leading and promoting the behaviours required to deliver an excellent donation experience, ensuring high donor satisfaction and retention.
• Training your team, with support, to ensure both your own and their competence is maintained.
• Efficient management of blood donor sessions, maximising productivity as well as maintaining standards of care and donor satisfaction.
• Making sure your NMC Revalidation delivers improvements in practice.

You will be required to work variable hours in order to lead at different blood collection sessions across a defined geographical area, which will include working evenings, weekends, overnight stays when required and bank holidays (appropriate notice will be given). Night shifts are not required in this role.

Experience and Knowledge

• Demonstrates clinical leadership and understands the principles of best practice, delivering a high quality of care
• Experience of initiating and supporting the professional development of others, providing coaching and mentoring
• Knowledge of clinical audit and research
• Experience of working to organisational targets would be desirable
• Experience of supporting service delivery improvement and change in practice would be desirable
• Knowledge of patient safety initiatives and risk management
• Experience of working with Information Technology such as hand-held devices and Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

• Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration (which must be maintained) as Registered Nurse – Adult
• Required to maintain registration, adhering to requirements of revalidation
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Possession of a valid driving licence allowing you to drive in the UK

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

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