Nurse Manager-Haemodialysis

Main area: Renal

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Once a month Saturday cover from 8:00-16:00)

Job ref: 361-6830701

Site: Lister Hospital

Town: Stevenage

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 10/01/2025 23:59

Interview date: 29/01/2025

Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, our mission is: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities. Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service.

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Nurse Manager - Haemodialysis. The post-holder will be an experienced renal trained nurse, working in partnership with the Matron as an integral part of the Nurse Management team, promoting the principle of cross-site collaboration and teamwork. The Nurse Manager will be accountable for the line management of nursing staff, demonstrating clinical and managerial leadership, enabling the units to provide the highest standards of care and minimising any risks to service users. The Nurse Manager will be accountable for the budget management for the Lister Dialysis unit and provide effective leadership for all nurses, clinical support workers, admin staff, and ward Housekeepers employed by the service. The successful candidate will be a member of the Directorates Management team providing expert advice and direction on nursing and clinical governance issues and be a role model for renal nurses, representing the department and Trust as required and identified by the Lead Nurse, Clinical Director, and General Manager.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

• Have overall responsibility for the operational management of clinical service delivery at unit level.
• Provide excellent standards of nursing care and expertise, both in delivering direct patient care and in support of other staff caring for the higher needs and dependency of our patients.
• Provide appropriate intervention, support, and clinical expertise to deliver a safe clinical pathway that promotes high-quality care through role modelling, expert clinical skills, promoting best practice, facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration, and providing education.
• Promote high standards of professional practice and the delivery of quality care within the corporate policies, protocols, and guidelines.
• Be accountable for the delivery and monitoring of robust infection control measures at ward/department level, through ongoing vigilance by ensuring delivery of all aspects of the Infection Control Strategy.
• Provide clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and support staff.
• Be a highly skilled clinical expert with specialised knowledge in caring for patients with complex needs.
• Provide advice and support to all staff working in the area.
• Establish effective communication links with the Unplanned division management team.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals: The Lister Hospital, Stevenage; New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City; Hertford County, Hertford.

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work-life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns, and we are committed to listen and consider all requests.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Experience

• Significant experience in caring for patients requiring renal nursing, demonstrating a special interest in haemodialysis treatment.
• Evidence of an understanding in expenditure and budget management.
• Involvement in audit/research and willingness to present findings at meetings and conferences.

Skills

• Ability to develop own skills and knowledge.
• Demonstrate a flexible approach, able to react to the changing needs of the department, ensuring sustainability.
• Demonstrate evidence of strong leadership and motivational skills, ability to lead and motivate a large clinical team.

Knowledge

• In-depth knowledge on managing a busy dialysis unit.
• Able to recognize the training requirements of the department and provide support to develop the team.
• Understanding of risk management, health and safety, and other clinical governance issues.
• Knowledge of local and national health care initiatives/innovation to improve patient care, experience, and safety.
• Ability to recognize pressure in the work environment and manage in a professional manner.
• Evidence of working with and enforcing Human Resources policies and procedures.
• Financial management ability and competence, including understanding of rosters, skill mix, etc.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse educated to Part 1 of the NMC Register.
• Post registration qualification in renal specialty including recognised Renal course.
• Teaching qualification - Mentorship and preceptorship/998/Practice assessor course.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Managerial and leadership qualification/relevant experience.

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate, and live our values in everything we do.

• Include - We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
• Respect - We create a safe environment where we are curious about the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
• Improve - We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients, and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019. We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.