Job summary
Join our leadership team and make a real impact. Were seeking an experienced nurse leader to head our Duty Manager team, ensuring consistent, safe, and effective decision-making across hospital operations out of hours. If youre passionate about clinical leadership, team development, and operational excellence, wed love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The Lead Clinical Duty Manager provides operational leadership and coordination of hospital services out of hours, ensuring safe, effective, and consistent decision-making across the Duty Manager team.
This includes: Managing and coordinating a wide range for clinical and non-clinical emergencies, dealing with and addressing a range of clinical and non-clinical problems, reviewing and ensuring safe staffing levels where required, coordinating admissions, and escalating issues to the senior manager on call.
About us
Located in leafy St Johns Wood on the Jubilee line, minutes from Central London, our independent private Hospital has just been rated the number one in the country for care in the latest Bupa survey. Uniquely, all profits fund our onsite Hospice, St Johns.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Oversee and support Duty Managers in managing clinical and non-clinical emergencies, staffing, and bed utilisation.
- Lead on team development, performance monitoring, and professional decision-making consistency.
- Act as a role model for clinical leadership and governance, ensuring patient safety and quality standards are maintained.
- The post-holder works closely with Admissions to ensure proactive focus on effective utilisation of hospital beds and provides support for clinical areas as a 08 bleep holder.
- The post holder will coordinate the staff bank and primarily focus on management of requests for cover for nursing shifts with effective utilisation of staffing resource.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Oversee and support Duty Managers in managing clinical and non-clinical emergencies, staffing, and bed utilisation.
- Lead on team development, performance monitoring, and professional decision-making consistency.
- Act as a role model for clinical leadership and governance, ensuring patient safety and quality standards are maintained.
- The post-holder works closely with Admissions to ensure proactive focus on effective utilisation of hospital beds and provides support for clinical areas as a 08 bleep holder.
- The post holder will coordinate the staff bank and primarily focus on management of requests for cover for nursing shifts with effective utilisation of staffing resource.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Current NMC registration in adult or general nursing
- Evidence of Leadership, Management and Speciality Development
- Significant post qualification/registration experience in nursing field
- Must have recent clinical experience at Senior Staff Nurse Band 6
- Experience in facilitation, teaching, assessing, coaching
- Proven experience in leading teams and managing change.
- Strong ability to influence and standardise practice across multiple stakeholders.
Desirable
- Educated to first degree level or equivalent
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Current NMC registration in adult or general nursing
- Evidence of Leadership, Management and Speciality Development
- Significant post qualification/registration experience in nursing field
- Must have recent clinical experience at Senior Staff Nurse Band 6
- Experience in facilitation, teaching, assessing, coaching
- Proven experience in leading teams and managing change.
- Strong ability to influence and standardise practice across multiple stakeholders.
Desirable
- Educated to first degree level or equivalent
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
