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 Southampton. 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 8 days per fortnight totalling 75 hours. This will include regular weekend and Bank Holiday working. The earliest shift time could be 0800hrs with a finish time of approximately 1800hrs. On a late shift you could start at 1130hrs and finish around 2130hrs. 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 responsibilites 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 shift are not required in this role.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.