Job summary
We have two exciting opportunities to join our Trust as Care Group Director of Nursing and Integrated Professions for either Surgery or Medicine. Reporting to the Chief Nurse, the Care Group Director of Nursing and Integrated Professions will be professionally accountable for all nurses within the division and is responsible for nursing standards, patient safety, clinical governance and promoting a culture of learning and continuous improvement. The role of Care Group Director of Nursing and Integrated Professions is a crucial and pivotal role within our leadership team and will provide support to the Chief Nurse, Trust Board, and Divisional Management Teams regarding issues that support quality, safety, clinical leadership, and professionalism.
We are looking for a compassionate, driven, and innovative nursing leader to join our Trust. You will bring significant experience in issues relating to quality, patient safety, safeguarding and clinical governance. We are looking to speak with credible and motivated senior Nurses, with a successful track record of leading and inspiring teams.
In return, you can be part of an upward journey, in which you will be supported to develop your career. We are welcoming applicants who are passionate about improving the patient experience and who strive to deliver the highest quality of care for patients.
To review our brochure for more detail on this role, please click on the attached advert.
Main duties of the job
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from underrepresented groups. In recruiting to our Trust, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We especially welcome applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage, LGBTQ+ communities, and from people with lived experience of disability.
The post holder by supporting the delivery of the Care Group operating plan will need to take responsibility for a wide range of areas including operational management and clinical delivery, redesign, productivity, quality, safety, governance, and regulatory compliance plans.
The Surgery/Medicine Care Group Director for Nursing and Integrated Professions will have direct managerial responsibility for the clinical non-medical Heads of and matron roles, supporting them in the delivery of responsibilities within their respective service lines, working in association with their service line management teams.
The Surgery/Medicine Care Group Director for Nursing and Integrated Professions will supervise and oversee the delivery of the Quality Governance framework within the Care Group and will lead on all matters relating to the co-ordinating of regulatory compliance activities within the respective Care Group and Service Lines.
About us
We are proud to offer a wide range of healthcare services, including acute care, specialist services, and community healthcare. The trust operates Derriford Hospital, the largest teaching hospital in the South West of England, which provides a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services. In addition to Derriford Hospital, the trust manages several other community hospitals, clinics, and healthcare facilities across Plymouth and the surrounding areas.
As a teaching hospital, University Hospitals Plymouth is affiliated with the Peninsula Medical School, a collaboration between the University of Plymouth and the University of Exeter. This partnership fosters medical education and research, making it a centre for medical excellence and innovation.
Our Trust is committed to providing high-quality, patient-centred care and our values of respect, positivity, listening, learning, improving, taking ownership, and putting people first underpin all we do. We are passionate about the well-being and safety of our patients and strive to deliver efficient and compassionate healthcare services to our communities and beyond.
It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be responsible for the professional leadership and development of Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions within the Care Groups in order to facilitate the delivery of excellent clinical practice and be clinically responsible for the delivery of all nursing and wider non-medical clinical elements of the service
- To lead by example, working within the Trust values to empower and develop leadership of all Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions staff in the Care Group enabling each member of staff to perform to the best of their ability providing high quality patient care within available resources
- To deliver the Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions strategy within the Care Group, this will form an integral part of the Care Group strategy and in year operational work plan
- To provide professional advice to the Care Group Manager, Care Group Director, clinicians, and other senior managers within the Trust
- To participate as a senior member of the Care Group Management team for supporting business planning, service developments and operational delivery including achievement of performance targets
- To be accountable for the standard of Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions care and practice within the caregroups
- To be a care group lead for Brilliant Basics and accreditation programmes
- To lead in implementing and maintaining the quality governance, patient experience, and risk management work plan, including the evidence of CQC essential standards and outcomes
- To take senior management responsibility for Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions and care group quality governance portfolios of work including complaints, risks, safety, quality, effectiveness and patient experience, ensuring high impact, measurable outcomes are delivered in mitigating risk and improving quality, safety and patient experience
- To facilitate and challenge clinical practice and processes and involve relevant staff in improving patients services and quality. Developing approaches for the utilisation of best practice and research evidence which supports Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions and improves patients experience
- To assist the care group management team in financial management of the care group by managing within budgets, developing, and delivering financial improvement programmes, complying with Trust financial rules, recognising and balancing finance versus quality/safety/efficiency
- To directly line manage the Heads of Nursing or clinical professions /Midwifery and provide professional leadership to the senior nursing community g. CNS, ACP, Matron and lead on performance management of the senior nursing community on their nursing budgets, ensuring controls for workforce management (such as temporary staff, rostering, management of leave and absence) are robust
- Budget holder for multiple distinct clinical services
- To lead with the Deputy Chief Nurse an annual review of all nursing skill mix and establishments, using national and professional benchmarks
- To oversee all investigations relating to complaints and incidents, ensuring timely and accurate completion of robust processes within the relevant timeframes and legislative processes
- Lead and hear disciplinary, sickness, performance, and grievance procedures as appropriate ensuring issues in relation to NMC registration/capability/fitness to practice are properly considered and dealt with
- Ensure that the approach to complaints is such that each complaint is viewed as a service improvement opportunity
- Act as a professional resource for the nursing workforce in order to ensure a high-quality learning environment is achieved. Ensuring performance reviews are completed, personal development plans are in place and essential training compliance is within Trust agreed levels
- The postholder will frequently be expected to work clinical shifts utilising their professional knowledge. These shifts will involve frequent moderate effort for short periods of time
- Responsible for policy implementation for the service
- To communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to a wide range of clinical, professional and administrative staff effectively where there may be significant barriers to acceptance or understanding
- On Call duties as required
- Deputises for the Care Group Manager as required
- Work within a distributed leadership model within the care group triumvirate
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be responsible for the professional leadership and development of Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions within the Care Groups in order to facilitate the delivery of excellent clinical practice and be clinically responsible for the delivery of all nursing and wider non-medical clinical elements of the service
- To lead by example, working within the Trust values to empower and develop leadership of all Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions staff in the Care Group enabling each member of staff to perform to the best of their ability providing high quality patient care within available resources
- To deliver the Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions strategy within the Care Group, this will form an integral part of the Care Group strategy and in year operational work plan
- To provide professional advice to the Care Group Manager, Care Group Director, clinicians, and other senior managers within the Trust
- To participate as a senior member of the Care Group Management team for supporting business planning, service developments and operational delivery including achievement of performance targets
- To be accountable for the standard of Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions care and practice within the caregroups
- To be a care group lead for Brilliant Basics and accreditation programmes
- To lead in implementing and maintaining the quality governance, patient experience, and risk management work plan, including the evidence of CQC essential standards and outcomes
- To take senior management responsibility for Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions and care group quality governance portfolios of work including complaints, risks, safety, quality, effectiveness and patient experience, ensuring high impact, measurable outcomes are delivered in mitigating risk and improving quality, safety and patient experience
- To facilitate and challenge clinical practice and processes and involve relevant staff in improving patients services and quality. Developing approaches for the utilisation of best practice and research evidence which supports Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions and improves patients experience
- To assist the care group management team in financial management of the care group by managing within budgets, developing, and delivering financial improvement programmes, complying with Trust financial rules, recognising and balancing finance versus quality/safety/efficiency
- To directly line manage the Heads of Nursing or clinical professions /Midwifery and provide professional leadership to the senior nursing community g. CNS, ACP, Matron and lead on performance management of the senior nursing community on their nursing budgets, ensuring controls for workforce management (such as temporary staff, rostering, management of leave and absence) are robust
- Budget holder for multiple distinct clinical services
- To lead with the Deputy Chief Nurse an annual review of all nursing skill mix and establishments, using national and professional benchmarks
- To oversee all investigations relating to complaints and incidents, ensuring timely and accurate completion of robust processes within the relevant timeframes and legislative processes
- Lead and hear disciplinary, sickness, performance, and grievance procedures as appropriate ensuring issues in relation to NMC registration/capability/fitness to practice are properly considered and dealt with
- Ensure that the approach to complaints is such that each complaint is viewed as a service improvement opportunity
- Act as a professional resource for the nursing workforce in order to ensure a high-quality learning environment is achieved. Ensuring performance reviews are completed, personal development plans are in place and essential training compliance is within Trust agreed levels
- The postholder will frequently be expected to work clinical shifts utilising their professional knowledge. These shifts will involve frequent moderate effort for short periods of time
- Responsible for policy implementation for the service
- To communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to a wide range of clinical, professional and administrative staff effectively where there may be significant barriers to acceptance or understanding
- On Call duties as required
- Deputises for the Care Group Manager as required
- Work within a distributed leadership model within the care group triumvirate
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- oSignificant Experience of working at a Senior Manager level and relevant clinical and management experience at divisional/care group level
- oOverall professional knowledge to senior postgraduate/ doctorate level or equivalent experience
- oExperience of working and influencing at a very senior level and leading a group of teams and services
- oExperience of achieving changed clinical practice
- oDemonstrable experience of developing staff and teams
- oSenior Operational management experience in complex services
- oDemonstrable experience of implementing and managing change effectively
- oThorough and up to date knowledge of nursing theory and best practice and application in practice
- oUnderstanding of NMC/HPC code of practice and requirements of it for the practice and behaviour of staff and self
- oSignificant Experience of effective budgetary management
- oExperience of developing business cases/business planning
- oExperience of involvement in clinical governance
- oEvidence of involvement in service users' advocacy and complaints resolution
- oProject management experience
- oWell-developed clinical practice. Able to advise on and implement improvements to the quality and efficiency of care for patients in wards/units and specialties across medicine
- oAbility to make judgements on and changes to clinical and professional standards
- oDemonstrates commitment to an empathetic and caring approach to patients and relatives and ability to motivate staff to demonstrate this to ensure that all patients' dignity and respect are maintained at all times
- oAbility to interpret and analyse data and adapt national and local policy from several sources into Trust standards
- oAbility to apply research-based practice and advocate it to improve the quality and efficiency of wards/units and services.
e
Essential
- o Significant Experience of effective budgetary management
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- oSignificant Experience of working at a Senior Manager level and relevant clinical and management experience at divisional/care group level
- oOverall professional knowledge to senior postgraduate/ doctorate level or equivalent experience
- oExperience of working and influencing at a very senior level and leading a group of teams and services
- oExperience of achieving changed clinical practice
- oDemonstrable experience of developing staff and teams
- oSenior Operational management experience in complex services
- oDemonstrable experience of implementing and managing change effectively
- oThorough and up to date knowledge of nursing theory and best practice and application in practice
- oUnderstanding of NMC/HPC code of practice and requirements of it for the practice and behaviour of staff and self
- oSignificant Experience of effective budgetary management
- oExperience of developing business cases/business planning
- oExperience of involvement in clinical governance
- oEvidence of involvement in service users' advocacy and complaints resolution
- oProject management experience
- oWell-developed clinical practice. Able to advise on and implement improvements to the quality and efficiency of care for patients in wards/units and specialties across medicine
- oAbility to make judgements on and changes to clinical and professional standards
- oDemonstrates commitment to an empathetic and caring approach to patients and relatives and ability to motivate staff to demonstrate this to ensure that all patients' dignity and respect are maintained at all times
- oAbility to interpret and analyse data and adapt national and local policy from several sources into Trust standards
- oAbility to apply research-based practice and advocate it to improve the quality and efficiency of wards/units and services.
e
Essential
- o Significant Experience of effective budgetary management
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
