Lead Nurse - Theatres Pre-assessment and Pain services
London, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 5 days ago
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dynamic senior nurse to join Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as a Lead Nurse for Theatres, Pre-Assessment and Pain Services.
This is a pivotal leadership role within a large, complex and high-performing directorate, where you will provide visible clinical, operational, and managerial leadership, supporting the Head Nurse to ensure the safe, efficient and effective delivery of services across multiple sites.
We are seeking a leader who will help shape a culture that inspires, motivates and empowers staff, promoting professional development, wellbeing and retention.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Gorham Job title: Head Nurse Theatres Pre-Assessment Pain Email address: c.gorham@nhs.net Telephone number: 02033121325
This is a pivotal leadership role within a large, complex and high-performing directorate, where you will provide visible clinical, operational, and managerial leadership, supporting the Head Nurse to ensure the safe, efficient and effective delivery of services across multiple sites.
We are seeking a leader who will help shape a culture that inspires, motivates and empowers staff, promoting professional development, wellbeing and retention.
- Working closely with the wider leadership team, you will support the day-to-day operational management of services, ensuring safe, responsive and effective patient pathways. You will have oversight of workforce deployment, safe staffing, theatre utilisation, patient flow and list efficiency, alongside pre-assessment capacity and surgical readiness.
- Ensure agreed systems and process to consistently provide safe, effective high quality patient care and embed a culture of improvement, focusing on the Trust’s harm free indicators, measuring practice and using variations in the data to develop local improvement projects are in place.
- Ensure local plans support all clinical quality external accreditation, for Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards, Safety Thermometer, Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN), Quality Accounts, NHS Litigation Authority.
- Lead workforce planning, professional development, clinical leadership and recruitment and retention to reduce turnover. Ensure timely recruitment takes place with the aim of maintaining vacancy factor targets and remove reliance on temporary staffing.
- Ensure personal development and contribute to the work of the Trust through publications, presenting at Conferences and general internal and external networking.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Gorham Job title: Head Nurse Theatres Pre-Assessment Pain Email address: c.gorham@nhs.net Telephone number: 02033121325
