Job responsibilities
Professional Leadership
To work in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct: Professional Standards of Behaviour for nurses and midwives (2015)
To maintain effective revalidation status by ensuring that he/she maintains professional credibility in relation to practice knowledge.
Demonstrate professional behaviour that is consistent with the Trusts values.
Support and enable Pathway to Excellence standards and shared decision-making council within the Team
To be responsible for the professional leadership of nursing services within the division, including devising, implementing, and reviewing strategies for the development of clinical practice, education, and management and quality issues.
To provide clear clinical leadership to the division, ensuring that all professional staff are appropriately managed and developed and they are therefore efficient, engaged and highly motivated.
To be visible in clinical practice, ensuring that time is spent working with the clinical team in the areas of responsibility.
To provide management, leadership, and direction to the Lead Nurses and Matrons in the division and ensure that nursing staff comply with the objectives set out in the Trusts strategy.
Lead on the objectives outlined in the Trusts Nursing Strategy.
With the Divisional Manager and relevant leads, ensure systems are in place to provide professional development through the appraisal system.
To develop leadership capability at all levels through role modelling.
To participate in career and succession planning and lead on the future development of the senior nursing staff within the division and corporately, working closely with the Chief Nurse.
To participate as a key member of the Trusts Senior Nursing team, providing advice and support to registered nurses and support staff within the organisation.
Develop external networks to learn and share from others and apply the learning to their practice.
Quality and Safety
To work with the division and divisional management team to develop a culture that continually improves quality and safety.
To ensure processes and systems are in place to monitor and improve quality and safety across clinical areas.
To lead on embedding PSIRF (Patient Safety Incident Response Framework) across the division.
To undertake trend analyses of all complaints, litigation, incidents and complaints and PALS data.
Attend and participate in the relevant quality and safety committees.
Ensure that all aspects of risk and clinical governance are robustly and effectively managed.
Implement systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to support monitoring of compliance with internal and external governance and best practice requirements.
Ensure effective systems are in place to monitor the timeliness and appropriateness of the resolution of complaints and issues from patients, staff, suppliers, other internal and external service providers and partner organisations, ensuring the learning from adverse events and complaints results in changes in practice to prevent future occurrences.
Lead the process for developing a nursing audit programme within the framework of clinical audit.
Ensure that Infection prevention and control requirements within the division meet the standards required and represent the Division at Infection Control Committee
Lead on the compliance with the Care Quality Commissions essential standards of quality and safety including compliance with the Health and Social care act (2008), and to take a lead on outcomes as required for each area managed, working closely with the corporate leads for governance and risk management.
Lead and support relevant staff in the investigation, root cause analysis and action planning into significant clinical incidents.
Lead on the safeguarding agenda for the division, working collaboratively with the adult and child safeguarding leads.
Lead and/or support in the investigation into significant clinical incidents.
Lead on the involvement of users and carers in the development of services, developing systems to improve the involvement of patients and carers in the division decision making process. In conjunction with the Chief Nurse and Associate Chief Nurse, work to ensure safe levels of staffing are provided across all patient care areas.
Strategy and Service Improvement
Support the Divisional Manager /Director in the divisions service improvement projects that contribute to the Trusts Excellence Portfolio, providing both professional and clinical advice as necessary.
Where required, work collaboratively with external partners in the development of patient pathways and services in relation to the services provided by the division.
Engage with the ICB on strategic developments addressing population health, workforce development, digital initiatives, surgical hubs etc.
Support the Chief Nurse in the implementation of strategic nursing priorities, both organisational and division specific e.g., recruitment and retention strategies, workforce transformation initiatives.
Work with the Oriel design leads to deliver a building that will meet the standards required for divisional services and deliver a high-quality experience for patients.
Performance Management
Assist and contribute to the development and implementation of the divisions delivery plan by providing direction to the service and business strategy, including:
Cross divisional and external partnership working. Supporting the Divisional Manager in delivering all agreed outputs for the division. Providing a professional nursing perspective on corrective plans where necessary. Ensuring effective action is taken where nursing performance is at risk of falling below expected levels.
Responsible and accountable for the delivery of financial, quality, performance, human resource management and productivity targets relevant to their areas of responsibility, as agreed as part of the annual business planning process.
Research and Development, Education and Training
Work with the practice development nurse(s), corporate nursing education team and lead nurse for research to ensure that training needs analyses are carried out across the division to inform the commissioning process and optimise the development of the clinical teams.
Lead, with the relevant Divisional Heads of Nursing, the development and implementation of education and training programmes and undertaking teaching to staff within the Division and corporately as required.
Ensure the division has robust workforce plans for nursing and support staff and they reflect agreed models of care for future service delivery.
Ensure all nursing and nursing support staff within the division meet mandatory training and induction requirements.
Be responsible for assuring 100% of nursing and related support staff within the division receive an annual appraisal.
Ensure a supportive teaching and learning environment is created and sustained for all learners and students within the division.
Engage with the EPR development team to support change management, digital development, staff training etc. in the move to a fully electronic patient record.
Personal and People Management and Development
Participate in appropriate professional development activities. The post holder is expected to take responsibility for continuing self-development of competence.
Line manage and develop the matrons and lead nurses (plus any other direct reports) and undertake their appraisals including setting and monitoring of objectives.
Work strategically with the Chief Nurse to meet the national nursing agenda and professional guidelines.
Work to assure the most productive recruitment and deployment of skill-mix across teams.
Ensure an effective recruitment and retention strategy is in place, supporting initiatives to improve the quality of working lives and staff wellbeing.
Respond to feedback from the annual staff survey and implement a divisional response, acting where staff raise concerns.
Participate in the Trust senior manager on call rota.
Act as a role model and promote and carry out duties and responsibilities regarding the Trusts Equality and Diversity policy including conducting equality impact assessments on nursing policy and/or service changes.
Support the implementation of the Trusts Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion plan across the divisional nursing teams.
Chair or otherwise contribute to disciplinary hearings and processes as required.
Management Take responsibility for the divisional nursing budget, establishing, maintaining and monitoring financial controls to ensure the most cost-effective use of the budget and achievement of cost improvements targets.
Work with the Divisional Manager and Divisional Director in monitoring the outputs of division performance, with particular focus on the management of nursing.
Ensure that managers and those with responsibility for budgets understand SFIs, the financial system and how to monitor and manage all budgetary resources with particular emphasis on the management of bank and agency staff and overseeing of safe cost-effective rostering.
