# Junior Sister / Charge Nurse - Outpatient Department(OPD)

**Company**: Barts Health NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £47,951 to £56,863 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Junior Sister / Charge Nurse to work in our Outpatient Department (OPD) at St Bartholomew's Hospital. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing, maintaining, and supporting the Outpatients Department. This will involve overseeing the clinical area, providing professional development for junior staff, and ensuring high standards of care.

The post holder will be expected to:

- Manage and maintain the Outpatients Department

- Provide advice and support to the team involved in caring for patients

- Set and maintain high standards of care and be accountable for auditing and monitoring those standards

- Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure effective and efficient service delivery

The salary for this post is £47,951 to £56,863 per annum.

The ideal candidate will have:

- NMC Registered Nurse qualification

- Evidence of continuing professional development

- Relevant experience in breast care, surgical, or outpatient settings

- Teaching/Mentorship qualification

- Excellent clinical assessment skills

- Highly skilled in wound assessment and management

- Leadership and organisational skills

- Ability to prioritise workload and manage competing demands

- Effective communication and patient education skills

This is a fixed-term contract for 12 months, working full-time with flexible working arrangements.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

## Skills

### Required
- NMC Registered Nurse
- continuing professional development
- breast care
- surgical
- outpatient settings
- Teaching/Mentorship qualification
- clinical assessment skills
- wound assessment and management
- leadership and organisational skills
- prioritisation and time management
- effective communication and patient education

### Nice to have
- recognised teaching and assessing qualification
- previous Band 6 experience
- mentoring and development of staff
- audit and quality improvement experience
- breast care qualification or relevant specialist study
- leadership or management training

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