Nuffield Health at St Bartholomew's - General Surgery Ward- Sister/Charge Nurse (Ward Manager)

Salary: Competitive (Equivalent to AFC band 7), additional unsocial hours and overtime uplifts if required

Nuffield Health is the UK's largest healthcare charity. Our family of 31 award winning hospitals, 112 fitness and wellbeing clubs, healthcare clinics and over 160 onsite workplace wellbeing services are united in our purpose to build a healthier nation.

In 2021, we'll open the doors to Nuffield Health at St Bartholomew's Hospital: The City of London's only independent hospital, situated next to St Bartholomew's NHS hospital, Nuffield Health at St Barts will be our flagship centre for cardiac services and will also provide a full range of surgical and medical services, including: orthopaedics, oncology, general surgery, gynaecology and urology surgery.

The new hospital will consist of:

• 48 inpatient and day case bedrooms

• Three digital operating theatres

• Cardiac catheterisation lab

• Specialist intensive care beds

• Oncology day unit

• Endoscopy and minor ops theatre

• Full diagnostic imaging suite

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Nurse to join our brand new team in London. Together with the Clinical Head of Department you will be operationally responsible for the day to day management and successful running of the 11 inpatient beds and 6 day case bedded Ward. We'll expect you to actively contribute to service development, policies and strategies, identify opportunities and also prepare the hospital to open in 2021. Once the hospital is operational, you will support individuals and teams to deliver high quality, clinically effective patient care through assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. Along the way, you'll build strong relationships with consultants, hospital senior leaders, a wide range of healthcare professionals and, of course, patients. Working collaboratively alongside the consultants, you'll ensure patients benefit from the best possible treatment and care.

Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, your specialist training must include postgraduate qualifications and training and a minimum of ILS, ideally ALS. You will have extensive experience of managing level 1 post-surgical patients, particularly in post orthopaedic surgery and ideally have a qualification in teaching and assessment, together with some mentoring experience. You've also got an impressive senior level knowledge and will have a minimum of 2 years' senior experience in working in a surgical ward setting. You'll be accountable for leading, motivating, educating and supervising the nursing and multidisciplinary team. Professional management is essential, as you'll need to be equipped for business development, audits, health and safety promotion and risk analysis.

We want you to be the best you can be. So we promise to support you with training, career development and our unique health and wellbeing focused benefits package. This includes free membership of your local Nuffield Health Fitness and Wellbeing Club, an annual health assessment, as well as a range of lifestyle and financial wellbeing benefits.

Ready to bring out the specialist in you? For more information please contact Hiring Manager Sian Duhig at sian.duhig@nuffieldhealth.com