Senior Nurse for Young People's Endocrine Service

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Main area: Children & Young People
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 309-UCLH-6096

Site: University College London Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £61,927 - £68,676 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/04/:59

The use of AI is monitored and if applicants have used it, then they are required to declare this in their supporting statement.

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated senior Registered Nurse to join the Children and Young Peoples (CYP) service at UCLH to deliver transformational patient care for young people requiring endocrine support and treatment. You will be joining a vibrant multidisciplinary team providing supportive care to ensure CYP and their families receive high-quality clinical care from admission through to discharge. Patient safety and a positive patient experience are at the heart of this role.
As one of the top-performing trusts in the UK, this post is an excellent opportunity for professional development and growth. We are seeking to employ an individual with dynamic leadership attributes, credibility, and strong communication skills. The successful candidate will support the CYP Division to lead change, quality improvement projects and shape our CYP services for the future.

Main duties of the job

Do you have excellent interpersonal skills, senior nursing experience, sound clinical skills, and the ability to work sensitively and collaboratively? If so, we can offer you:

• Job satisfaction working within a dynamic multidisciplinary team
• Excellent career development and learning opportunities

UCLH Trust is committed to treating children and young people, their parents and/or carers with kindness, inclusivity, respect, and compassion. If you are committed to delivering high-quality patient care to ensure the safety and emotional well-being of our children, young people, and their families, we look forward to receiving your application.

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

At UCLH, we have a real 'One Team' ethos, and our values - safety, kindness, teamwork, and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.

Person specification Knowledge and Qualifications

• First level Registered Nurse (Paediatric / Adult)
• Educated to Degree level
• Undertaking or willing to undertake master's degree.
• Hold non-medical prescribing qualification or working towards

Experience

• Sufficient experience in a senior nurse / leadership role
• Experience in the management of endocrine diagnostic testing
• Extensive experience of health and safety issues pertaining to clinical practice
• Ability to actively provide and recognise safeguarding.
• Experience in quality service improvement initiatives.
• Proven audit and research experience
• Able to work across organisational and professional boundaries.

Communication

• Demonstrates understanding of good practice in customer care / patient experience
• Able to communicate sensitive information and appropriately manage stressful situations

Personal and People Development

• Organisational skills
• Able to manage time effectively
• Able to prioritise objectives and workload

Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion

• Demonstratable understanding of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and/or Knowledge of the NHS obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duties

Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:

• Being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control.
• Demonstrates awareness of resource management issues within boundaries of role
• Managing a range of staff group
• Able to act as a visible clinical leader

Information processing

• Able to utilise ICT to full potential
• Able to utilise ICT systems including Word, Excel and Datix
• Able to analyse and interpret data from a variety of sources

Provision of care to meet health and wellbeing needs +Quality +Service Improvement

• Articulates reasons for desire to work in this area
• Understands importance of and own role in Clinical Governance and risk management
• Quality assurance and improvement
• Developing policies and protocols
• Able to lead change

UCLH takes equality of opportunity seriously and is committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer, with a culture that creates a real sense of belonging and trust. It is our fundamental aim, to recruit, retain and promote a diverse mix of people who are representative of our local communities.

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Please note that all correspondence regarding your application will be via email. The emails will be sent to you via TRAC.jobs and not via NHS Jobs, we encourage you to check your inbox regularly.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.