Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our exceptional team as Divisional Lead Nurse. In this exciting and varied role, you will form part of the divisional triumvirate within the Division of Surgery and Women's & Children's Services.
Working alongside leadership colleagues (Divisional Operations Director, Divisional Medical Director, and appointed deputies and the Trust senior nurse leadership team), you will support and drive the strategic direction of the division and wider organisation, whilst providing effective and visible leadership to the nursing and AHP workforce.
Main duties of the job
The Trust has an excellent reputation for care delivery, led by influential and successful clinical leaders. This is an opportunity for either an established senior nurse wanting to change career direction, or an individual who feels now is the right time to take the next step.
The Lead Nurse position is pivotal to leading and influencing excellence in patient care and professional practice and covers a wide range of service responsibilities. It is integral to delivery of the strategic vision for the Trust and how we develop services that are responsive to the changing needs of the local population and wider healthcare environment.
We are proud of the JPUH and its people and are continually seeking improvements to ensure that service users and staff have the most positive experience possible when they are here. Our vision is to provide safe, high-quality services delivered with compassion, courtesy, and respect.
The post holder will be responsible for working collaboratively with internal and external partners as we progress our journey to achieve our strategic ambitions as an acute care provider within Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System.
About us
We want to attract the best and brightest people to work with us and that means we will look after you from the moment you apply for a role at the Trust and throughout your career with us. Our staff are central to everything we do, and we believe that investing in you is crucial if we want to enable you to reach your full potential.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a detailed overview of the full job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached Divisional Lead Nurse Job Description & Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a detailed overview of the full job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached Divisional Lead Nurse Job Description & Person Specification.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (RN1) with current registration with the NMC
- Relevant degree in health care related subject
- Master's degree in healthcare related subject or demonstrable ability to work at master's degree level
- Professional management qualification (NVQ level 4)/ working towards postgraduate level or equivalent recent senior management experience
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in a senior nurse (8a or above) leadership role
- Evidence of achieving quality/performance achievements at a team level
- Evidence of monitoring and managing poor performance of quality indicators and implementation of successful improvement plans
- Demonstrate experience of the NHS strategic agenda together with an understanding of the current issues in nursing policy and practice
- Evidence of leading nurse recruitment and retention initiatives
- Evidence of responsibility for a delegated budget, managing financial systems and experience of budgetary management including monitoring the use of financial resources by subordinates, including professional contribution to business planning
- Evidence of having led new initiatives with multidisciplinary teams
- Proven ability to lead, motivate, inspire and support a multidisciplinary professional teams
- Excellent communication and influencing skills including the ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues at all levels of the organization
Desirable
- Working with public groups and agencies
- Evidence of strategy and policy development
Skills, Abilities and Competencies
Essential
- Significant knowledge and understanding of nursing operations and professional issues in an acute Trust. Comprehensive understanding of change management approaches demonstrating experience of leading change programme, with innovative solutions
- Evidence of understanding of the principles of nursing workforce profile, strategic workforce planning and workforce deployment issues
- Significant evidence of leading the development of nursing care responsive to the evidence base, national and local policy and good practice guidelines
- Evidence of understanding and leading on the nursing, Clinical Governance agenda and practical approaches to implementation ensuring robust systems are in place
- Ability to act on own initiative with evidence of high level autonomous decision making
- Ability to produce clear, accurate, written and verbal reports to Board level
- Evidence of ability to handle challenging issues taking a problem solving approach to ensure proactive and effective resolution
- Evidence of analysis, interpretation, and facilitation of complex data or information relating to the role
- Ability to chair meetings
- Experience of working with service users
- Ability to provide meaningful feedback in response to individual Performance
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate sensitive, complex/contentious information relating to patients and staff with empathy and reassurance where there are significant barriers to understanding
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (RN1) with current registration with the NMC
- Relevant degree in health care related subject
- Master's degree in healthcare related subject or demonstrable ability to work at master's degree level
- Professional management qualification (NVQ level 4)/ working towards postgraduate level or equivalent recent senior management experience
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in a senior nurse (8a or above) leadership role
- Evidence of achieving quality/performance achievements at a team level
- Evidence of monitoring and managing poor performance of quality indicators and implementation of successful improvement plans
- Demonstrate experience of the NHS strategic agenda together with an understanding of the current issues in nursing policy and practice
- Evidence of leading nurse recruitment and retention initiatives
- Evidence of responsibility for a delegated budget, managing financial systems and experience of budgetary management including monitoring the use of financial resources by subordinates, including professional contribution to business planning
- Evidence of having led new initiatives with multidisciplinary teams
- Proven ability to lead, motivate, inspire and support a multidisciplinary professional teams
- Excellent communication and influencing skills including the ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues at all levels of the organization
Desirable
- Working with public groups and agencies
- Evidence of strategy and policy development
Skills, Abilities and Competencies
Essential
- Significant knowledge and understanding of nursing operations and professional issues in an acute Trust. Comprehensive understanding of change management approaches demonstrating experience of leading change programme, with innovative solutions
- Evidence of understanding of the principles of nursing workforce profile, strategic workforce planning and workforce deployment issues
- Significant evidence of leading the development of nursing care responsive to the evidence base, national and local policy and good practice guidelines
- Evidence of understanding and leading on the nursing, Clinical Governance agenda and practical approaches to implementation ensuring robust systems are in place
- Ability to act on own initiative with evidence of high level autonomous decision making
- Ability to produce clear, accurate, written and verbal reports to Board level
- Evidence of ability to handle challenging issues taking a problem solving approach to ensure proactive and effective resolution
- Evidence of analysis, interpretation, and facilitation of complex data or information relating to the role
- Ability to chair meetings
- Experience of working with service users
- Ability to provide meaningful feedback in response to individual Performance
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate sensitive, complex/contentious information relating to patients and staff with empathy and reassurance where there are significant barriers to understanding
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
