Lead Nurse; maternity cover

Are you a Senior Nurse Leader looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you to develop and achieve your goals to become the best you can be? As a Lead Nurse you will provide senior visible clinical leadership to the hospital wide nursing team. You will promote and safeguard the well-being and interests of all service users, employees and visitors.

You will ensure that standards of patient care are always maintained within the parameters of operational policies and governing legislation. You will be a line manager to some of the experienced ward managers within the hospital, supporting with the day-to-day management of the nursing department. You will play a fundamental part in maintaining high standards and developing the service to reach its full potential.

As a senior member of the nursing team, you will have experience within a similar setting from the NHS and/or Private Care. You will lead and guide a team of nurses to provide exceptional care. You will be supported by the Director of Nursing who will be your line manager in this role. Your career within Elysium will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society.

It's a career that you can take pride in and enjoy.

As a Lead Nurse at Elysium Healthcare, you will be a senior member of the nursing team with responsibilities of providing visible clinical leadership across the hospital. Your role will include promoting and safeguarding the well-being of service users, employees and visitors while ensuring patient care standards are maintained. This position requires extensive experience in similar settings within the NHS or Private Care and includes participation in senior on call arrangements.

Part of your role will be formulating and presenting updates that will be required through the hospital's governance processes. You will be responsible to manage resources, supervise senior nurses and form an integral part of the clinical structure in maintaining and developing high standards of care.

• To actively promote multidisciplinary working.
• Participate in the Senior Nurse on call arrangement.
• Provide the Director of Nursing with relevant, accurate and timely information required for effective decision making.
• Leadership of Nursing Services ensuring highest possible professional standards.
• Management of resources within budget allocation.
• Supervision of senior nurses.
• Direct involvement in the preadmission assessment process.
• Customer and contract liaison in conjunction with the unit manager.
• To comply with individual responsibilities of relevant legislation.

• Post Graduate qualification at degree level relevant to healthcare.
• Management qualification (DMS or equivalent preferred).
• Registered Nurse with the NMC.
• Significant post-registration clinical and leadership experience.
• Budgetary and financial management.
• Project management.
• Demonstrable operational leadership experience within a healthcare setting.
• Experience leading Nursing teams at a senior management level.

Elysium Health care has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

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