Lead Nurse (Endoscopy Pre-assessment Team)

An exciting opportunity is now available to lead a new pre-assessment nursing team for Endoscopy.

This role will require a forward thinking dynamic Senior Sister/Charge Nurse with extensive clinical and leadership experience at band 6 or 7 in Endoscopy.

In order to manage this new pre-assessment nursing team excellent communication is essential, as you will be expected to communicate effectively across multiple interfaces with your team, the Senior Sister at both Northern General and Royal Hallamshire hospital sites, Patients, Matron, Consultants, Non-Medical Endoscopists, Service managers, Rota co-ordinators , Admin team, and other professionals working within and from outside the trust in order to provide the full Endoscopy pre-assessment service.

Main duties of the job

You will need to be an effective change manager to enable this new team to be recruited and developed and established. There will be a performance measurement element to this role where target numbers of pre-assessments completed by the team is required and monitored. There is also expected to be a reduction in patients failing to attend and cancellations on the day of the procedure.

You will lead the nursing pre-assessment team to work within a multidisciplinary team and across clinical boundaries to enable high quality preparation of patients for Endoscopy procedures. You will need to have outstanding organisational and interpersonal skills, the ability to demonstrate leadership, a sound understanding of Endoscopy and Gastroenterology environments and Nursing care. An understanding of JAG accreditation standards for Endoscopy services would also be essential.

Do you have the commitment and drive to lead a new nursing team to support continual service improvement using evidenced based practice? If so, we are interested in you.

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

GRaDE Care Group is comprised of 3 clinical directorates:

Diabetes and EndocrinologyGastroenterology and HepatologyRespiratory Medicine

All three directorates operate on the Northern and Central campus' although the acute admitting base for all of the specialties is at the Northern General Hospital. The Care Group has 11 acute base wards at the Northern General Hospital and one acute and one elective base ward at the Central Campus. Outpatient services operate on both campus' and are supported by the Patient Booking Hub at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital.