Sister/Charge Nurse

2 weeks ago


Maidstone Kent, United Kingdom NHS Blood and Transplant Full time

Salary: £35,392 to £42,618 per annum
Location: Maidstone Team Base
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37.5

Job Summary
You will lead and motivate a team of Healthcare Assistants and Donor Care Supervisor(s) to provide and deliver a high standard of personal care. You will use your clinical judgement to make decisions about donor suitability to meet our regulatory and governance requirements.

Main duties of the job

  • Taking clinical responsibility for ensuring the safe assessment and blood donation of our donors.
  • Being accountable for the safe running of a blood donation session.
  • Taking responsibility for ensuring an excellent donor experience.
  • Maintaining the competency and skills of your team and yourself.
  • Being able to adapt communication styles for difficult conversations.
  • Maintaining your professional development to help us deliver improvements to our practice.

Your working hours will be:
On a shift basis but, the normal hours for this role are 4 days per week/8 days per fortnight. Early shifts start at 07:30 and finish 16:40. Late shifts start at 11:45 and finish 21:15 this could be later dependant on how busy the session is, this will be 9.38-hour days. This role is mainly late shifts.

The working days are Monday – Friday, weekends off (excluding Bank Holidays). Weekend and bank holiday working will be required as needed. You can expect to work some long hours, but you won’t be working more than five days a week.

About You
Experience and Knowledge

  • Demonstrate leadership qualities and understand the principles of best practice to deliver high quality care.
  • Have experience of supporting the professional development of others.
  • Have an understanding of clinical audit and research.
  • Have experience of supporting improvements and change in practice.
  • Have an awareness of patient safety initiatives and risk management.
  • Have experience of working with Information Technology such as hand-held devices and Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

Qualifications and Training

  • Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration (which must be maintained) as Registered Nurse – Adult.
  • Have a valid driving licence and access to a car (or lease car if applicable).

Please view the recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

About Us
At NHS Blood and Transplant, we’re incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be. We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families. We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers.

It’s an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year. We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme.

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with and positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality.

Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.

Link to Nursing careers page: “Take your nursing career in a new direction. Find out more about the exceptional work our Nurses do here ”

This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Sunday 12 May 2024.

Interviews are anticipated to be held on Monday 20 May 2024 – subject to confirmation.

For informal enquiries or to arrange to a session visit please contact Grace De Lira, Senior Sister, Grace.DeLira@nhsbt.nhs.uk

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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.

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