We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative leader to come and join our team on Syon 1 Ward.
Due to a recent vacancy this exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented individual with multiple skills and an appetite for delivering a first class nursing service to join the team on the West Middlesex site, Twickenham Rd, in one of the UKs most successful and progressive NHS Foundation Trusts.
Syon 1/CCU is a 30 bedded ward specialising in Cardiology and Heart Failure. It has 6 level 2 beds and can support patients requiring non-invasive ventilation and /or inotropes.
Working as one of the Ward Managers for Emergency and Integrated Care alongside your colleagues, the matron’s, the Divisional Director of Nursing and senior management teams you will continue to improve care and experience for patients and families. The successful applicant will take a management role to deliver an innovative service for Syon 1 Ward. In this role, you will lead a team of nurses and healthcare assistants to deliver the service, support the Senior Nursing and Midwifery Team priorities and the wider Trust agenda. You will work collaboratively with the clinical leads while developing partnerships with the other divisions and our specialist nurses.
- In collaboration with the Modern Matron, service manager & clinicians, the Senior Sister is responsible for the effective delivery of care given to patients within the clinical area.
- To provide professional leadership within the clinical area.
- To have 24-hr responsibility for his/her clinical area.
- The post holder will provide expert advice and take a lead in the development and implementation of shared practice protocols in line with national recommendations and standards where these are available.
- To reduce length of stay for patients ensuring pathways to support highest standard of care are in place.
- To achieve financial balance.
About The Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are
PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment. Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Susan Moore Job title: Cardiology Matron Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 0208 321 6387
