Spire Healthcare Group plc
Nursing Manager - Outpatients
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Job Description
Nursing Manager - OPD | Outpatients | Private Hospital | Permanent, Full-time | Horley, West Sussex
Spire Gatwick Park Hospital is seeking an experienced Outpatient Manager to lead our Outpatient Service. The Outpatients Manager will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality and efficient outpatient services, delivering key quality, performance, and financial plans, and implementing service enhancements.
Spire Gatwick Park Hospital offers world-class care and is part of one of the UK’s most respected private hospital groups. With a full multidisciplinary medical team, we specialize in a wide range of treatments that can be personalized to your needs.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, and develop the provision of outpatients
- Manage the operational delivery of outpatients against Spire key performance indicators, ensuring the efficient running of the department.
- Provide and receive patient information, ensuring that all patient information is provided, received, and recorded in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Spire policies.
- Develop own knowledge and skills and contribute to the development of others.
- Promote best practice in health & safety and security.
- Promote people’s equality, diversity, and rights.
- Apply correct use of technology.
- Seek and employ innovative methods of improving service delivery in line with the 5 CQC Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE); always aiming to achieve Good and Outstanding.
- Adhere to all relevant healthcare standards and manage issues of governance and risk effectively.
- Ensure that effective systems are in place to manage stocks according to financial instructions, efficient utilization, intelligent ordering, and work closely with the Finance Director to ensure compliance with the above.
- Ensure all audits/reviews of the departments and their performance are undertaken and implement action plans in response to findings.
- Provide clinical leadership on the development of new services.
- Promote and maintain a close working relationship with external organizations to ensure standardization and sharing of best practice.
- Ensure that Clinical Governance and risk management are embedded within daily practice.
- Provide and receive patient information, ensuring that all patient information is provided, received, and recorded in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Spire Policies.
- Undertake Human resource activities for all members of the team.
- Carry out any other duty that reasonably falls within the general nature and level of responsibility of the post.
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Who We're Looking For
- Relevant Diploma or Degree
- NMC Registration
- Previous experience in an outpatients department at a senior level.
- Experience of working unsupervised.
- Experience of leading a team.
- Ability to manage, motivate, support, develop, and lead the department
- A focus on positive patient and user experience
- Able to work cohesively across clinical teams
- Competent across a range of clinical management and leadership skills
- 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
Hours
37.5 hours across Monday to Friday and Saturdays as required to meet the needs of the business. Normally from 8am-8pm on weekdays and Saturday 8-6.
Benefits
We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- 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
- Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
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We commit to our employees' well-being through work-life balance, ongoing development, support, and reward.
Our Values
We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organization:
- Driving clinical excellence
- Doing the right thing
- Caring is our passion
- Keeping it simple
- Delivering on our promises
- Succeeding and celebrating together
Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth, and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.
Closing Date
If we have received sufficient applications, this date may be brought forward, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire, please contact Charlotte Oliver on charlotte.oliver@spirehealthcare.com.
For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.
About Us
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales, and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case, and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs, and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal, and dermatological services.
We have achieved our market-leading position because of our Purpose, which is to 'make a positive difference to people's lives through outstanding personalized care'. Everyone at Spire is aligned to this purpose, which underpins a culture of respect, inclusion, passion, and collaboration across our business, enabling us to achieve more than 98% of our hospitals being rated ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ by the Regulators; these are sector-leading standards.
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