Area Nurse

Job Summary

As an Area Sister / Charge Nurse in this autonomous role, you will lead and motivate a team of Healthcare Assistants, on donation teams across Hampshire and Dorset. You will use your clinical judgement to make safe decisions about suitability and ensure your teams 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 is 6 days per fortnight totalling 56.25 hours. This will include regular weekend and Bank Holiday working. The earliest shift time could be hrs with a finish time of approximately hrs. On a late shift you could start at 10 : 30hrs and finish around 21 : 30hrs.

As this is an area role, you will be travelling regularly across the area but you will be based at the team nearest to your home address; this will be agreed at interview.

Main duties of the job

Using your clinical experience and knowledge, you will lead your team to ensure both the safety of our donors and the supply of safe blood products to patients. Your responsibilities will include :

• Overseeing the clinical assessment of donor eligibility and leading on all aspects of donor care.
• Accountability for the effective delivery of both operational and clinical standards of care and donor experience
• Leading and promoting the behaviours required to deliver an excellent donation experience, ensuring high donor satisfaction and retention.
• Training your team, with support, to ensure both your own and their competence is maintained.
• Efficient management of blood donor sessions, maximising productivity as well as maintaining standards of care and donor satisfaction.
• Making sure your NMC Revalidation delivers improvements in practice.

You will be required to work variable hours in order to lead at different blood collection sessions across a defined geographical area, which will include working evenings, weekends, overnight stays when required and bank holidays (appropriate notice will be given). Night shifts are not required in this role

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