Job summary
- Main area
- Gynaecology ward
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (full time 37.5 per week)
- Job ref
- 321-SWR-GYN-DWSCN-B6-A
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Women's Centre, JR
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £31,365 - £37,890 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/02/2021 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Ward Sister/Deputy Charge Nurse
Band 6
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Band 6- Deputy Ward Sister / Deputy Charge Nurse
We are looking for an experienced nurse with a passion for Women’s Health to take on the role of a Deputy Ward Sister / Deputy Charge Nurse on the Gynaecology Ward. This includes, a 24 hour triage service, 20 bedded inpatient unit and a day case/theatre direct admission unit.
We are a dynamic and rapidly developing unit treating a wide treating a wide range of Gynaecological conditions, working closely with the multi-disciplinary team. As a member of the senior team, using your advanced skills and knowledge, you will demonstrate clinical leadership within the clinical environment. You will be expected to work alongside the Ward Sister and Practice Development Nurse to ensure the quality and safety standards are maintained.
The successful candidate will play a key role in staff development, contributing to practice development and clinical skills training for registered and non-registered staff. You will work alongside directorate and divisional education teams to ensure staff are supported across Gynaecology, including outpatient, day case and community settings, and will be a key point of contact for new starters, students and other learners on the Gynaecology Ward.
You will receive an annual appraisal and personal development plan which will enable you to have structure within your role and help you to develop both personally and professionally. You will receive an orientation period and training during which you will be able to work visit other areas related to women’s health, and you will have a named mentor.
If you would like to work within our friendly, supportive and challenging ward then please do not hesitate to seek further information. We welcome informal visits. The post is for 37.5 hours, working weekdays and some weekends. For more information please contact Kat Proffitt (Practice Development Nurse) or Holly Attle (Sister) on 01865222001/2.
Closing date: 10-Feb-2021
Planned Interview date: TBC
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Applications from job seekers who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the resident labour market test. UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit the UKVI website. From 6 April 2017, Tier 2 skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) will also be subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal Records Checks for Overseas Applicants.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katherine Proffitt
- Job title
- Practice Development Nurse
- Email address
- Katherine.Proffitt@ouh.nhs.uk
- Telephone number
- Telephone: 01865 222001
- Additional information
Katherine Proffitt
Katherine.Proffitt@ouh.nhs.uk
Telephone: 01865 222001
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