Job summary
To provide effective clinical and holistic individualised care to patients and families, ensuring delivery is to the highest standard. Maintaining evidenced based practice, whilst being responsible for updating own knowledge and skills in line with the Trust polices, multidisciplinary team, the GDC (General Dental Council) Developing leadership skills and actively participating in service development.
The applicant will be required to support other specialities within the department such as ENT, Dermatology, Neurology, Renal and vascular and must therefore demonstrate flexibility to cover these areas. Due to operational pressure within the Trust, it may on occasions be necessary for the applicant to support other areas within the Trust.
Main duties of the job
1. To maintain responsibility for updating own knowledge and skills in line with Trust policies and the GDC to support an effective outpatient Nursing service which is responsive and sensitive to patient's needs.
2. To demonstrate good leadership skills, to actively support the Outpatient Nurse Manager/ deputy Team leader in the development of the service, whilst actively promoting the need for change and highlighting departmental achievements.
To assist the Nurse Manager/ Deputy Team Leader with the daily running of the Outpatient Department, deputising as appropriate and liaising with core services, ensuring that issues relating to safe staffing levels and clinic capacity are appropriately escalated in a timely manner
About us
Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Application Form
Essential
3. Registered Dental Nurse
4. Post qualification in Radiology
5. 3 years experience
Desirable
6. Leadership course
7. Mentorship or equivalent teaching qualification
Application and interview
Essential
8. Able to organise and prioritise workload
9. Flexible and able to work well as part of a team
10. Demonstrate ability to work under pressure
Desirable
11. Leadership course
12. Mentorship course
Application Form
Essential
13. Previous experience of working within an OMF/ENT Outpatient setting
14. Experience/ knowledge of Safeguarding issues
Desirable
15. Prior experience of working within an Acute setting