Senior Sister​/Charge nurse

We are looking for an inspired individual with Cardiology Catheterisation Lab experience to lead our Cardiac Cath Lab Nursing team. The job will be suitable for senior nurses looking to advance their leadership and managerial career. The job offers the unique opportunity to bring your expertise to ensure safe and compssionate patient experience whilst maximising our capacity utilisation through innovative ways.

You will be leading the staff members to deliver high quality care in our Ten Cath Labs tholomew's site. The Cath Lab manages all speacliaties in Cardiology and functions as the emergency Heart Attack Centre for LAS activations in East London. We have 24/7 catheterisation labs offering world renowned emergency care to cardiology patients. You will have a team of highly competent nurses, your peers from other cardiology wards and senior nursing team working collaboratively to achieve the Trust's vision

You will have the opportunity to ensure patients receive high quality care whilst ensuring the smooth daily passage of the emergency pathway. The post holder will pro-actively lead and manage the nursing team and help the team to achieve their aspirations. The post holder will actively contribute to realise the service vision and key targets by working closely with the service leads.

The ward manager will partner with the peers to drive incremental innovation to achieve safe and compassionate patient experience.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time.

It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment.

• Evidence of Degree education
• Registrant with NMC
• Mentorship course or equivalent
• ILS
• Evidence of CPD
• ALS
• Leadership Training

• Two years experience and band 6 level
• Leading teams as nurse in charge
• Collaborative working with MDT
• Previous acting WM experience
• Rostering, appraisal, sickness & performance management experience

• Cath Lab Competencies Intervention, EP and Structural
• Up to date Cardiac nursing knowledge
• Understand the principles of incident management and shared learning culture
• Understanding of competing priorities of the MDT and teamwork
• Demonstrates advanced communication skills in managing situations
• IT Skills
• Audit link nurse experience on any domain
• Knowledge of improvement based on audit findings

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.