Senior Staff Nurse, Plastics and Cosmetic Surgery in Cranbrook

Are you a passionate, skilled nurse who is ready to take your career to the next level? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment where no two days are the same? If so, this is your opportunity to become a key clinical leader within our Plastics and Cosmetic Surgery service.

We are looking for a Senior Staff Nurse (SSN) who wants to make an impact, someone who brings expertise, energy, and compassion to every patient interaction. You will be at the heart of transforming patient experiences from consultation to surgery and beyond.

• Deliver Exceptional Specialist Care
• Lead the way in providing safe, evidence-based care for plastics and cosmetic surgery patients.
• Make clinical decisions with confidence, supported by a highly skilled multidisciplinary team.
• Guide patients and their families throughout their journey from first appointment to final discharge.
• Become Our Wound Care Champion - Provide expert wound care & tissue viability support.
• Run engaging outpatient wound care clinics and collaborate with leading external specialists.
• Be a Clinical Leader
• Ensure safe, efficient patient flow and high-quality service delivery every day.
• Help shape the service by contributing to performance metrics, business planning, and quality improvement.
• Design and deliver audits, training, education, and research projects.
• Present your findings and lead action plans that make a real difference.
• Play an active role in multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Keep Our Patients Safe Always
• Maintain clinical areas and equipment to the highest standards.
• Provide expert advice to colleagues and, when needed, out-of-hours support to ensure urgent care needs are met.

About us: At Benenden Hospital we put patients at the heart of everything we do. We attract kind, compassionate, and talented people to our ultra-modern private hospital, which opened in 1907 and has been rated as Outstanding by the CQC. We hold JAG accreditation for Endoscopy and have a beautiful setting in the middle of the Kent countryside. Benenden Hospital offers excellent working conditions and facilities. We promote flexible working and a healthy work/life balance. We are committed to professional development and have excellent training and education facilities. We work hard to make sure that everyone at Benenden Hospital feels involved and shares our values and vision for the future.

Purpose: Within the service(s), the Senior Staff Nurse (SSN) will be a leading member of the team, working within their scope of practice at all times under the direction of the Outpatient Manager and Consultant Surgeon(s) to provide expert care and support to patients undergoing outpatient and inpatient consultations and surgery.

The post holder will:

• Be a positive role model for the service and to staff, and will be a patient advocate, ensuring a positive patient experience.
• Provide sound knowledge and support, including planning and delivering patient care and supporting treatment and aftercare as required by the role.
• Work within a governance framework and adhere to national/local regulatory requirements and clinical and professional standards.
• Under the supervision of the Outpatient Manager, will be responsible for supporting the development of the service, ensuring effective utilisation of all associated resources, providing efficient & effective day-to-day operational management & coordination of the service, allocating resources appropriately.
• Be responsible for ensuring the Plastics/Cosmetics care & treatment areas and associated equipment is safe, always fit for purpose and effectively maintained.

• First Level Registered Nurse with supporting evidence of CPD and Revalidation.
• Enhanced knowledge and experience of working within surgical nursing environment.
• Evidence of enhanced knowledge of wound care/tissue viability.
• Preoperative Assessment experience or willingness to undertake training.
• ILS training.
• Proven ability to undertake multiple tasks under pressure.
• Excellent organisational planning and problem-solving skills, with a can-do attitude.
• Methodical & pays attention to detail.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong patient centred approach.
• Sound computer skills e.g. Microsoft Office.
• Demonstrate honesty, integrity and ethics.
• Ability to work effectively within a team as well as be able to work autonomously.
• Experience of Audit or willingness to undertake learning.

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.