0452 - Deputy Lead Nurse

Interviews to take place on 02/12/2024. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Main Outpatients as a Deputy Lead Nurse. This post is a crucial leadership role across a varied group of outpatient departments, supporting excellence in practice with a footfall of 300 patients every day. Whilst nursing in an outpatient department is a speciality itself; competencies span surgical and medical care; this leadership post offers the opportunity to support the performance of Staff Nurses and Health Care Assistants, manage patient experiences, improve and safeguard vulnerable people coming into a very busy environment. In addition, this is the time of great transformation in the delivery of care, supporting the delivery of the digital strategy, NHS England Outpatient Transformation and Recovery programme and the regional elective recovery work., The Deputy Lead Nurse supports the Lead nurse to lead nursing teams to deliver excellent patient experience across Main outpatients. Coordinating the complex arrangements of room/rota and clinic changes due to service demands, requesting extra clinics and negotiating roster changes, receiving escalations from the staff nurse in clinic related to patient complaints, unwell patients and other operational challenges.

The lead nurse/deputy organise every days work in a daily huddle, adjusting staff allocations in addition to the managerial responsibilities to plan rosters, approve leave, attend to HR matters for a group of 50 staff. Coordinate mandatory training, appraisal, inductions, recruitment and performance of staff.

You must understand quality issues, resource management, health and safety and clinical risk. You will be responsible for the daily safety huddle, fire warden, H&S checks, Tendable audits etc.

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Deputy. An opportunity for an aspiring Lead Nurse to let their leadership skills shine within a large and varied workplace. You must have a genuine desire to work in Outpatients, and be flexible to work over 5 days with shift times varying from 8am to 6pm.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close a position early.

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing Trust achieving a Good rating in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessment and achieving significant progress in the delivery of our strategic objectives. We are proud of the commitment of our staff to ensuring a strong and sustainable future for this organisation which is highly valued by our local communities.

There has never been a better time to join Barnsley Hospital. It is moving at pace and a we can do this attitude is evident right through the organisation, where staff are engaged for change and committed to being part of the journey to sustainability and growth.

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity and fair treatment to all applicants regardless of race, nationality, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, mental or physical disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, age or offending history.

The cost of the DBS (criminal records check) for Band 6 and above roles only will be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction.