Job summary
Working full time in a busy Women's Health Outpatient department in a dual role as Junior Sister supporting the manager in the day to day running of the department and leading a team of nurses and health care assistants. You will also be a Clinical Nurse Specialist in urogynaecology undertaking clinics to treat and manage pelvic organ prolapse and chronic bladder conditions. You will be an active member of the multidisciplinary team within urogynaecology attending continence and pelvic floor disorder multidisciplinary team meetings.
Supporting the managerial day to day running of women's health outpatients including facilitating appraisals, roster allocation, dealing with complaints, recruitment and attending meetings such as governance, FASS divisional, rota check, safety huddles, IP&C and departmental.
As the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Urogynaecology you will undertake clinics in pessary management, bladder instillations and percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation. Answering questions and concerns raised via email to the urogynaecology email help box. Ensuring you are competent and up-to-date with practices and evidence based practice, you will also undertake audits of the services you provide and help maintain urogynaecology patient information leaflets. Working alongside consultants and the advanced clinical practitioner to advance services and treatments relating to urogynaecology.
Main duties of the job
You will be trained to support consultants, registrars, the nurse consultant and advanced clinical practitioner in procedural clinics such as minor ops, colposcopy, outpatient hysteroscopy and urodynamic studies. As the junior sister supporting the department manager, you will form part of the management team for the Family and Specialist Services division working closely with the matron and performance and operations manager.
You will be willing to work in varying roles to ensure smooth daily running of clinics and ready to stand in for the manager where necessary. You will be punctual and perform your duties in a professional manner that reflects your commitment, reliability and dedication to the department and urogynaecology team to uphold the good reputation of the organisation.
About us
Our STAR values - Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect - are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Currently a weekday role you will share evening clinics with the advanced clinical practitioner and department manager.
As the Junior Sister you will be working within a friendly and approachable nursing team that is passionate about women's health and motivated in providing the best care for women. The women's health outpatients department hosts specialists such as physiotherapists, midwives, sonographers and phlebotomists as well as the consultants and registrars involved in gynaecology and obstetrics. We support medical students in their educational experiences as well us the junior doctors on their rotation within gynaecology and obstetrics.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Currently a weekday role you will share evening clinics with the advanced clinical practitioner and department manager.
As the Junior Sister you will be working within a friendly and approachable nursing team that is passionate about women's health and motivated in providing the best care for women. The women's health outpatients department hosts specialists such as physiotherapists, midwives, sonographers and phlebotomists as well as the consultants and registrars involved in gynaecology and obstetrics. We support medical students in their educational experiences as well us the junior doctors on their rotation within gynaecology and obstetrics.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN with reasonable length of post qualification experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant for Band 6 post.
- Willing to undertake NMP qualification
- Degree and post graduate diploma
Desirable
- Leadership qualification
- Bladder disorder &/or disease
- Vaginal pessary management
- NMP qualification
- NMR capable
Experience
Essential
- An awareness of interagency working / functions.
- Communication skills, which facilitate effective interaction with people from a wide range of social, economic, cultural and ethnic/racial backgrounds.
- Able to communicate with a wide range of colleagues in different disciplines and agencies.
- The ability to respond to the demands of working in a complex and diverse environment.
- Able to produce accurate reports.
Desirable
- Related nursing experience in Urogynaecology
- Vaginal pessary management
- PTNS experience
- Bladder instillation experience
- Teaching clean intermittent self catheterisation
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN with reasonable length of post qualification experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant for Band 6 post.
- Willing to undertake NMP qualification
- Degree and post graduate diploma
Desirable
- Leadership qualification
- Bladder disorder &/or disease
- Vaginal pessary management
- NMP qualification
- NMR capable
Experience
Essential
- An awareness of interagency working / functions.
- Communication skills, which facilitate effective interaction with people from a wide range of social, economic, cultural and ethnic/racial backgrounds.
- Able to communicate with a wide range of colleagues in different disciplines and agencies.
- The ability to respond to the demands of working in a complex and diverse environment.
- Able to produce accurate reports.
Desirable
- Related nursing experience in Urogynaecology
- Vaginal pessary management
- PTNS experience
- Bladder instillation experience
- Teaching clean intermittent self catheterisation
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to 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) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to 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) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
