Skip to main content

This job has expired

Sister/Charge Nurse

Employer
NHS Blood and Transplant
Location
Reading, Berkshire (GB)
Salary
£26,565 to £35,577 pa pro rata
Closing date
1 Jul 2018

View more

Sector
Acute Care Nursing
Contract Type
Permanent

Job Details

Sister/Charge Nurse

Salary: Afc Band 6 - £26,565 to £35,577 pa pro rata

Contract: Permanent, Up to 56.5 hours per fortnight

Location: Reading Team

Ref: 918-BN2982

Have you ever thought about where the blood that you transfuse comes from? Are you thinking of taking a new direction in your nursing career? Looking for a change? If so come and work for us.

NHS Blood and Transplant collects over 7,000 blood donations every day providing vital blood and blood products that help to save and improve the lives of thousands of people every year. We are dedicated to making a difference and we need your help to do so.

We save lives but we don’t work in hospitals. No two days are the same in this fast moving and variable environment. We collect blood from donors in Donor Centres and also travel to where our donors are in mobile teams.

As a Session Sister/Charge Nurse in this autonomous role, you will lead and motivate a team of donor carers (similar to Health Care Support staff), use your clinical judgement to make safe decisions about suitability and ensure your team deliver a high standard of care that enables us to meet our regulatory and governance requirements. We need your leadership and management skills to ensure that patients receive safe blood and blood products and our donors feel safe and cared for. By giving the best experience we can for our donors, you will ensure they will want to return time and time again.

No prior specialist knowledge is required for this band 6 role, we value what you bring. If you are able to work independently, lead with compassion and resilience, excited by the prospect of enabling change in a fast moving environment, then this is the job for you. We will provide all the training and support you will need with excellent learning and development opportunities and career progression.

The shift pattern for this role is 6 days per fortnight working up to 56.5 hours over these days, up to 9.5 hours a day.  The earliest start time would by 08:00 with a finish time of approx 18:00, if on a late shift you would be finishing at 21:00.  

An informal discussion and session visit is highly recommended, we would urge you to do this before applying for this position.  To arrange this please contact Charlotte Blake at charlotte.blake@nhsbt.nhs.uk or call 07720 275339, please leave a message if no reply, Charlotte will respond asap on her working days (Monday, Wednesday, Friday).

This advert will close at midnight on 1 July 2018, with interviews taking place on 18 July 2018.

To apply for this role please click on the apply button and search for vacancy reference number 918-BN2982.

Take charge of your career and apply now.

Company

We provide a blood and transplantation service to the NHS, looking after blood donation services in England and transplant services across the UK. This includes managing the donation, storage and transplantation of blood, organs, tissues, bone marrow and stems cells, and researching new treatments and processes.

Get job alerts

Create a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.

Create alert