About this role
Job summary
We are looking for an experienced, motivated, compassionate Ophthalmology Unit Manager to lead our busy eye unit.
You will be responsible for day to day running of clinics and staffing, ensuring that patients receive safe, timely and high quality care.
As a visible and approachable leader you will support and develop a multi disciplinary team, working closely with clinicians, Nurses and management to maintain a safe environment and drive service improvements.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse with strong leadership skills to make a real difference to patient care and staff wellbeing.
Main duties of the job
- Establish, develop, maintain, monitor and facilitate the delivery of services at departmental level, across two sites ensuring services provided meet organisational objectives, divisional service strategies and quality accounts.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:
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We appreciate you completing the survey.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Key Result Areas:Professional/ClinicalTo provide strong visible leadership to all staff within the Department and across the organisation, ensuring that nursing practice is up to date, evidence based and cost effective.To develop the outpatient teams, individuals and self to enhance performance, ensuring that staff training needs to meet organisational objectives are pursued through the principles of IPR and PDP and knowledge & skills framework, in accordance with Trust Policies and procedures.To be responsible for own professional registration and ensure that all nurses working on the ward have valid NMC registration and practise in accordance with the NMC Code, Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives and in accordance to Trust policy, ensuring a robust system is in place to checking registered practitioners registration status.
- Provide leadership for the implementation of the quality initiatives such as Essence of Care benchmarking.
- Ensure a strong team focus on high quality, clinically effective healthcare that meet our patients needs, is embedded in ward culture.
- Create and maintain a strong culture of Infection Prevention & Control awareness & practice and ensure robust systems are in place to measure IP&C standards, celebrate & share good practice and develop & review action plans to address deficiencies.
- Develop, maintain and review annually the departments philosophy so that this continually reflects the aims of the team, division and organisation.
- Develop and lead teams that seeks to actively resolve compliant/concerns at local level ensuring appropriate escalation of complaints, clinical incidents or near misses.To be responsible for organising the Ophthalmology on-call roster.
- Foster and embed a patient safety culture and participate in national and local patient safety work streams or campaigns to improve the patients environment and experience such as Patient Safety Thermometer.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Essential
- First Level Nurse
- Degree in Professional Nursing/Health Studies
- Ophthalmology Post graduate certificate or equivalent experience
- ENB course in Medical Specialties
- Post-registration management qualification or equivalent experience
- ILS/ALS
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- ENB 998 or equivalent qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience in nurse management
- Experience of change management
- Experience of general medicine
Desirable
- A minimum of 2 year experience at band 6 within acute hospital setting
Skills
Essential
- Presentation skills and relevance to question
- Sound knowledge of evidence based practice
- Knowledge and experience of audit process
- Evidence of involvement in change management
- Sound resource (human and finance) management skills
Desirable
- Some knowledge of business planning
- Experience of writing guidelines/protocols & policies
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Can demonstrate characteristics of effective leadership
- Demonstrates ability to motivate, train and develop staff
- Is innovative, positive and has ability to stimulate a productive team Able to set/achieve individual/team objectives and meet deadlines
- Able to role model both clinically & managerially
Other job requirements
Essential
- Up to date with current NHS priorities and nursing issues
- Passes Occupational Health Clearance
- Flexible and adaptable in meeting changing service demand
Desirable
- Experience of project work and report writing
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Warwick and Stratford
Lakin road
Warwick
CV34 5BW
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.swft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)