Charge Nurse - Urology Outpatients

The post holder is responsible for maintaining high standards of care and the development of programmes of care and/or the implementations of these programmes. Carry out all relevant forms of care without direct supervision and may be required to demonstrate procedures to supervised and unsupervised qualified and/or unqualified staff. He or she regularly takes charge and leads the department in the absence of the person who has continuing responsibility of the department.

Ensure that he or she adheres to all trust policies, particularly in relation to confidentiality and professional behaviour.

As an employee of the Trust, you have a legal responsibility for all records, including patient health, financial, personal and administrative, that you gather or use as part of your work within the Trust. The records may be paper, electronic, microfiche, audio, video tapes, x-ray images etc. You must consult your manager if you have any doubt as to the correct management of the records with which you work.

Standards of Conduct:
Ensure that personal actions and conduct comply with the Trust Policies and Procedures e.g. Health and Safety, Tobacco Control Policy, equal opportunities, confidentiality, the Data Protection Act (1998), Moving and Handling Regulations. Aspiring to excellence – ongoing improvement of our service.

• Experience in working at band 6 level in outpatient setting
• Registered 1st level nurse
• Has a degree in health related subject or equivalent or willing to work towards
• Experience of undertaking audit
• Flexible approach to working to ensure delivery of service needs
• Effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets
• Ability to promote effective cohesive team working
• Demonstrates ability in the clinical setting
• Desirable criteria:
  Experience with in urological speciality and procedures
• Leadership and development programme or willing to work towards
• Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent experience
• You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

• Experience with in urological speciality and procedures
• Leadership and development programme or willing to work towards
• Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent experience
• You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.

The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust.

We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background. We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees.

Appointments will be made on merit.

It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust:

• Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
• This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
• Please note that shortlisting is completed anonymously with candidates being assessed against the essential criteria for the post. Therefore only…