Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available for a highly skilled, enthusiastic and motivated senior nurse to join our Ophthalmology outpatient  Department at Freshney Place.

The Department provides outpatient services for all medical and surgical specialties and some for family services. The role will provide senior nursing management to Diana Princess of Wales  outpatients.

The applicant should be a senior nurse with previous management experience of successful leading change and be able to drive forward the skills of the established team within outpatients.

You must demonstrate excellent communicate skills, initiate drive and have the ability to lead a nursing team.

This will be an exciting time for the right candidate as outpatients is undergoing transformation led by Humber Coast and Vale and NHS England/Improvement initiatives.

Main duties of the job

As Outpatient Manager you must adhere to the Trusts values of kindness courage and respect, always promoting a positive attitude.  You must be an excellent communicator with an outstanding ability to critically think and prioritize workload.  Duties include workforce management, effective rostering, undertaking audits, staff performance and wellbeing management, training and development, stock ordering,  incident investigation, accountability for improving standards of care in line with quality  assurance tools and  attend regular meetings with the management team and divisions.

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.