Job summary
We are looking for an outstanding clinical leader to join us as Divisional Nursing Director (DND) for the Medicine Division to provide inspirational, high level professional, strategic and operational leadership, both within the organisation and across the integrated care system.
The Medicine Division is the second largest of the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals Trust's four divisions, with a budget of more than £200 million, offering tertiary specialist services as well as services for our local central Norfolk communities. There are over 2,700 members of 'Team Medicine' made up of a diverse, highly skilled workforce spanning across all staff groups. Around 1600 of these staff are Nursing and Additional Clinical Support roles, working across several specialities, sitting under the overarching responsibility of the Divisional Nursing Director.
This is an exciting time to join Team Medicine, and this role offers a unique opportunity for a charismatic, dynamic senior nurse to hone their career within a fast-paced acute setting, with the guidance and support of a strong, patient focused senior leadership team.
Please see attached candidate pack for more information about the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals Trust, the role and what we can offer you.
Interviews are planned for 6th November 2023
Main duties of the job
Reporting to the Chief of Division, the DND works in partnership with the Chief of Division and Divisional Operations Director. These three roles, the 'Divisional Triumvirate', have operational accountability for the workforce, service delivery, clinical quality & safety, financial control, and the implementation of the NNUH and Divisional strategy. Together as a team, the Triumvirate, are responsible for defining divisional objectives to meet corporate goals and ensuring that the highest quality standards offered to every patient every time.
The DND manages Team Medicine's senior nursing teams: Senior Matrons, Matron and Specialist Nursing and Allied Health Professionals, Advanced Nurse Practitioners & ACPs and the Clinical Governance. The DND also works closely to support the Executive Director of Nursing to develop, implement and deliver the 5 year Clinical Professions, Nursing and Midwifery Strategy and the Trust wide nursing strategy, providing clear visible direction and leadership to deliver excellence in nursing across all areas of Medicine and all departments that deliver patient care.
In the role you will affect safe and appropriate placement of emergency and elective patients across each speciality ensuring patient flow that is safe, effective, and efficient of all resources, identifying potential problems in advance and developing strategies to overcome them. You must lead each specialty in the effectiveness of admissions/discharges to meet demand, providing feedback and implementing changes as required to ensure seamless patient journeys. In this role requires the individual to work with other health and social care partners to harmonise procedures and clinical pathways to reduce variation for patients. Moreover, you will collaborate with the University of East Anglia to nurture future advanced and consultant practitioner roles, to generate research to improve patient outcomes.
About us
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Job description
Job responsibilities
The following skills and experience will be required and are essential for the successful candidates:
- Ability to provide clear visible direction and leadership to deliver excellence in nursing across all areas of Medicine and all departments across the wider organisation that deliver care to medical patients.
- Ability to affect safe and appropriate placement of emergency and elective patients across each speciality ensuring patient flow that is safe, effective and efficient of all resources, identifying potential problems in advance and developing strategies to overcome them. The DND must lead each specialty in the effectiveness of admissions/discharges to meet demand, providing feedback and implementing changes as required to ensure seamless patient journeys.
- Ability to role model excellence and best practice across all clinical services, ensuring high quality patient pathways, capacity management issues, are aligned with national safety and quality metrics of care delivery.
- Lability to lead the development and implantation of innovative approaches to service demand to reduce LOS on admission and discharge pathways working closely with Department, Directorate, Divisional teams, in collaboration with system partners.
- Ability to lead, develop and maintain effective communications systems, ensuring the use of relevant and appropriate data on capacity and demand is kept up to date and used to inform decision making.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The following skills and experience will be required and are essential for the successful candidates:
- Ability to provide clear visible direction and leadership to deliver excellence in nursing across all areas of Medicine and all departments across the wider organisation that deliver care to medical patients.
- Ability to affect safe and appropriate placement of emergency and elective patients across each speciality ensuring patient flow that is safe, effective and efficient of all resources, identifying potential problems in advance and developing strategies to overcome them. The DND must lead each specialty in the effectiveness of admissions/discharges to meet demand, providing feedback and implementing changes as required to ensure seamless patient journeys.
- Ability to role model excellence and best practice across all clinical services, ensuring high quality patient pathways, capacity management issues, are aligned with national safety and quality metrics of care delivery.
- Lability to lead the development and implantation of innovative approaches to service demand to reduce LOS on admission and discharge pathways working closely with Department, Directorate, Divisional teams, in collaboration with system partners.
- Ability to lead, develop and maintain effective communications systems, ensuring the use of relevant and appropriate data on capacity and demand is kept up to date and used to inform decision making.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A Registered Clinical Professional qualification
- Post graduate management/ leadership Quality Improvement qualification
- Masters or Equivalent level of experience
- Evidence of recent professional and managerial development
Experience
Essential
- Significant senior line management experience in a large complex service organisation with recent, relevant Senior Leader/ Manager level or equivalent.
- Proven track record of Senior Service Leadership & Management in a multi-disciplinary environment.
- Detailed understanding and experience of the operation of a large complex service organisation.
- Evidence of successful leadership & management of transformation in services in a complex organisation.
- Proven ability to manage multi-million pound budgets, establishments & CIPS effectively.
- Proven ability in performance management and development of staff.
- Evidence of delivery of key targets and commitment to ongoing service improvement
- Good understanding of IT systems, their application and potential.
- Clear understanding of the national and local agenda.
- Record of achievement in managing performance.
Skills
Essential
- Highly-developed compassionate, collaborative & inclusive leadership and motivational skills.
- Must possess a high standard of verbal and written communication skills
- Highly-developed business/commercial acumen including complex data sets, financial management, numeracy and the ability to analyse reports.
- Capacity to operate and think laterally and flexibly at strategic and operational level, with evidence of delivery within strategic level projects and operational work streams.
- Innovative and responsive to change with an ability to lead and facilitate change initiatives.
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills to be able to support and develop staff as well as build and develop effective multi-functional teams.
- Proven track record of collaborative/partnership working with Senior Professionals and Senior Managers/external organisations
- Ability to achieve demanding tasks and objectives against deadlines and within resources
- Excellent presentation skills
- Ability to manage highly sensitive and complex information
Attitude/Aptitude
Essential
- Evidence of personal insight, sound judgement and drive for improvement both personal and organisational.
- Ability to be assertive
- Evidence of self-development
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A Registered Clinical Professional qualification
- Post graduate management/ leadership Quality Improvement qualification
- Masters or Equivalent level of experience
- Evidence of recent professional and managerial development
Experience
Essential
- Significant senior line management experience in a large complex service organisation with recent, relevant Senior Leader/ Manager level or equivalent.
- Proven track record of Senior Service Leadership & Management in a multi-disciplinary environment.
- Detailed understanding and experience of the operation of a large complex service organisation.
- Evidence of successful leadership & management of transformation in services in a complex organisation.
- Proven ability to manage multi-million pound budgets, establishments & CIPS effectively.
- Proven ability in performance management and development of staff.
- Evidence of delivery of key targets and commitment to ongoing service improvement
- Good understanding of IT systems, their application and potential.
- Clear understanding of the national and local agenda.
- Record of achievement in managing performance.
Skills
Essential
- Highly-developed compassionate, collaborative & inclusive leadership and motivational skills.
- Must possess a high standard of verbal and written communication skills
- Highly-developed business/commercial acumen including complex data sets, financial management, numeracy and the ability to analyse reports.
- Capacity to operate and think laterally and flexibly at strategic and operational level, with evidence of delivery within strategic level projects and operational work streams.
- Innovative and responsive to change with an ability to lead and facilitate change initiatives.
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills to be able to support and develop staff as well as build and develop effective multi-functional teams.
- Proven track record of collaborative/partnership working with Senior Professionals and Senior Managers/external organisations
- Ability to achieve demanding tasks and objectives against deadlines and within resources
- Excellent presentation skills
- Ability to manage highly sensitive and complex information
Attitude/Aptitude
Essential
- Evidence of personal insight, sound judgement and drive for improvement both personal and organisational.
- Ability to be assertive
- Evidence of self-development
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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).
