# Interim Nursing Manager - Outpatients

**Company**: Spire Hartswood Hospital
**Location**: Brentwood, Essex
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Spire Hartswood Hospital is seeking an experienced Outpatient Services Nursing Manager to lead and further develop our high-performing and fast-paced outpatient department. This is a key leadership role with responsibility for clinical quality, operational performance, and service development across a large and diverse patient population.

The outpatient department supports over 300 patients every day across a diverse range of specialties, offering a dynamic, high-performing clinical environment. As Nursing Manager, you will play a pivotal leadership role within this busy service, shaping the future of outpatient care while supporting and developing a large multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities:

- Provide visible, inspiring clinical and operational leadership to the outpatient services team

- Ensure the consistent delivery of safe, high-quality, efficient, and patient-centred care

- Lead and develop a highly skilled multidisciplinary team of Nurses and HCAs, fostering a positive and supportive culture

- Manage and optimise performance against key quality, operational, and financial KPIs

- Build and maintain strong, effective working relationships with over 200 consultant clinicians

- Embed Clinical Governance, risk management, and patient safety as core elements of daily practice

- Lead audits, quality reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance patient outcomes and service efficiency

- Support the development, expansion, and implementation of new outpatient services

- Oversee key HR processes, including recruitment, appraisal, performance management, and staff development planning

Requirements:

- Nursing Diploma or Degree

- NMC Registration with no restrictions

- Previous experience in an outpatients department at a senior level is essential

- Previous team management experience

- Ability to manage, motivate, support, develop and lead the department

- A focus on positive patient experience

- Competent across a range of clinical management and leadership skills

- Experience in performance monitoring and reporting capabilities

- Knowledge of appropriate standards and external bodies, such as the Care Quality Commission

- Auditing skills across clinical standards and departments

- Ability to implement continuous improvement initiatives

Benefits:

- 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays

- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options

- ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers

- Free Bupa wellness screening

- Private medical insurance

- Life assurance

## Skills

### Required
- Nursing Diploma or Degree
- NMC Registration
- Previous experience in an outpatients department
- Team management experience
- Clinical management and leadership skills
- Performance monitoring and reporting capabilities
- Knowledge of Care Quality Commission
- Auditing skills

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