Brighton Hospital | Permanent | Full time
Competitive salary
37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the charity that's building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes - we'll do whatever it takes to look after the UK's wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.

The opportunity

We are looking for someone to take an active role in leading a well-established efficient and dynamic team.

As our Clinical Ward Sister you will:

• Oversee care delivery and management in the department, ensuring that all team members treat patients, families, friends and representatives with kindness, dignity, respect and compassion and support them to cope emotionally with their care, treatment or condition.

• Support the Ward Manager in setting high standards, maintaining staff competence and ensuring delivery of a high quality and safe service.

• Manage a team - performing 1:1's and appraisals.

• Act as a role model, leading, coaching and mentoring staff, and promoting the adoption of evidence-based and innovative practices e.g. WHO Checklist, Stop before you block, Stop before you implant.

• Be part of the manager on-call rota to ensure business continuity out of hours.

The person

To succeed as a Clinical Ward Sister in our Brighton Hospital you will need:

• Significant post-registration experience

• Proven clinical leadership and team supervision skills.

• IT literacy with patient information systems, clinical information systems, incident management systems, and the MS Office suite.

• Competency in clinical skills related our specialties.

• Excellent communicator (verbal and written) with an ability to positively influence colleagues and behaviours.

• Working a combination of Clinical shifts (including early/late/weekend shifts) and management days you will be responsible, along with the other Ward Sisters, for the Clinical leadership of the Ward staff -looking after 30 in-patient rooms and 10 Day case rooms.

• You will help set and maintain a high standard of Clinical Care on the Wards

• You will deputise for the Ward Manager - including the management of rotas, payroll issues and HR cases when required

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. From free private healthcare to gym membership, a cycle to work scheme and more. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital

At Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital, we work with leading medical Consultants to provide first-class treatments and high standards of care for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide range of medical and surgical conditions using the latest facilities and technology. We take pride in delivering high standards of patient care to both private patients and the NHS. Our facilities include 44 purpose built en-suite rooms, 3 operating theatres plus 1 endoscopy theatre. Other facilities include physiotherapy and a diagnostic department. We are located in Woodingdean, on the east side of Brighton with easy access by rail and road, including free parking.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role.

It starts with you.