Departmental Manager Main Outpatients

The Department Manager is accountable for the delivery of safe, high quality nursing services and care to patients within the ward or department they lead. This includes the professional and managerial leadership of staff and ensuring that clinical governance processes are firmly embedded within the area. The Department Manager will provide a visible, credible and accessible senior presence to which nursing staff, the wider multidisciplinary team and patients and their families can turn for assistance whilst role modelling the trust values. In addition the Department Manager will demonstrate compliance with the administrative and clinical systems and use these resources efficiently to support the workforce to fully utilise all their time and skills in the delivery quality care and enhanced patient experience in line with the trusts strategic objectives.

An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dynamic Registered Nurse to join our team as a band 7 Departmental Manager.

The post will involve the overall management of a team of registered nurses and healthcare support workers. This requires a credible and competent leader with proven experience.

You will need to have excellent communication skills, the ability to lead and inspire a team and be prepared to work in a busy and challenging environment.

If you are enthusiastic, innovative and committed to maintaining high standards of patient care, we would like to hear from you.

Rated GOOD overall with outstanding care by the CQC. A specialist NHS hospital providing life-changing reconstructive surgery, burns care and rehabilitation services across the South of England and beyond.

We specialise in conditions of the eyes (corneoplastics), hands, head and neck cancer and skin cancer, reconstructive breast surgery, maxillofacial surgery and prosthetics, providing regional and national services in these areas of clinical expertise.Our world-leading clinical teams also treat more common conditions of the eyes, hands, skin, and teeth for the people of East Grinstead and the surrounding areas. In addition, QVH provides a minor injuries unit, expert therapies, a sleep service, and a growing portfolio of community-based services.Patients consistently rate QVH amongst the top hospitals in the country for quality of care.

Our success is underpinned by the skills and enthusiasm of our staff and a strong culture of partnership. We are fully committed to training and development of the workforce with support for continuing education and learning.