Job summary
Job Title: Head of Nursing - Acute & Emergency Care
Division: Unplanned & Integrated Care
Care Group: Acute & Emergency Care
Band: 8b
Salary: £58,972 - £68,525 per annum
Interview Date: Friday 3rd November 2023
We are recruiting for a Head of Nursing - Acute & Emergency Care who shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best Peopleand has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, professional nurse with a passion for working at senior level, to join out Acute and Emergency team as Head of Nursing AEM.
To lead the nursing and allied health professional workforce within Acute and Emergency Medicine supporting the Divisional Director of nursing to deliver high quality care for our patients.
Main duties of the job
The Head of Nursing forms part of the directorate triumvirate leadership team alongside a Clinical Director and General Manager.
You will have shared responsibility for clinical governance, operational delivery, clinical safety, and financial control, directly managing the Clinical matrons and responsible for the delivery of safe and effective nursing care.
The Head of Nursing will be accountable for the delivery of a balanced budget and dedicated healthcare governance portfolio and specific group of clinical areas.
Mature leadership skills are essential to ensure the multi-disciplinary workforce is well supported to respond effectively to current NHS challenges. Applicants should be able to demonstrate success in delivering effective, safe, cost effective services in a complex healthcare environment, including staff management, financial, risk and change management.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a key role, working alongside another Heads of Nursing, the Divisional Director of Nursing and alongside the broader multi-disciplinary team, you will provide high quality strategic, professional, operational, and visible nursing leadership, advising and supporting on directorate nursing issues.
We are keen to engage someone with the experience and drive to deliver high quality care and an appreciation of the value of respect and of multidisciplinary teamwork.
The Head of Nursing/ Midwifery will be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the Care Group nursing and midwifery staff and for the delivery of consistently reliable high quality nursing and midwifery standards.
This is a key role within the senior Nursing leadership team which supports the continuous development of the workforce to deliver high quality care and fundamental nursing and midwifery standards, ensuring it is safe, effective and person centered treating all patients, their families and their carers with dignity and respect.
The role is focused on delivering the best outcomes and experience of care for our patients, ensuring that the nursing and midwifery teams are developed, competent and supported to deliver the highest standards of care and professionalism
As part of the Care Group triumvirate, you will provide strong, visible, professional leadership, focusing on the delivery of care throughout the Division. You will be accountable for a range of services ensuring they are flexible and responsive.
The Head of Nursing/ Midwifery will support the Divisional Director of Nursing in the local development and implementation of the Divisional managerial and strategic objectives ensuring safe, effective and appropriate care delivery
The Head of Nursing/ Midwifery will support the Divisional Director of Nursing the development and implantation of the Trusts Quality and Nursing and Midwifery Strategy, ensuring robust action plans are in place leading to improvements in care and enabling shared learning across the Division.
Support the regular review of services within the Care Group and Division; in line with informed opinions, information from patients, the changing needs of the patients accessing the service, the organisational aims and objectives and local regional and national evidence based guidance.
In partnership with the General Manager and Clinical Director jointly develop service
strategies, ensure delivery and foster positive partnerships across the organisationand other NHS Organisations
Lead, manage and motivate staff within the Care Group, ensuring appropriate management and delegation structures, policies and practices are in place to achieve high levels of performance in meeting objectives.
Ensure that responsibility for achievement of constitutional targets is well known, and management of sub-optimal performance is managed and appropriately escalated.
Contribute to the effective management of human, financial and physical resources within the Care Group.
Provide leadership on professional issues within the Care Group and ensure related issues from professional bodies are disseminated through to the Care Group.
Set, monitor, implement and maintain standards of clinical practice and patient care through a range of quality improvement and measurement activities that include clinical practice benchmarking, clinical audit, patient satisfaction, performance review and professional accountability
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a key role, working alongside another Heads of Nursing, the Divisional Director of Nursing and alongside the broader multi-disciplinary team, you will provide high quality strategic, professional, operational, and visible nursing leadership, advising and supporting on directorate nursing issues.
We are keen to engage someone with the experience and drive to deliver high quality care and an appreciation of the value of respect and of multidisciplinary teamwork.
The Head of Nursing/ Midwifery will be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the Care Group nursing and midwifery staff and for the delivery of consistently reliable high quality nursing and midwifery standards.
This is a key role within the senior Nursing leadership team which supports the continuous development of the workforce to deliver high quality care and fundamental nursing and midwifery standards, ensuring it is safe, effective and person centered treating all patients, their families and their carers with dignity and respect.
The role is focused on delivering the best outcomes and experience of care for our patients, ensuring that the nursing and midwifery teams are developed, competent and supported to deliver the highest standards of care and professionalism
As part of the Care Group triumvirate, you will provide strong, visible, professional leadership, focusing on the delivery of care throughout the Division. You will be accountable for a range of services ensuring they are flexible and responsive.
The Head of Nursing/ Midwifery will support the Divisional Director of Nursing in the local development and implementation of the Divisional managerial and strategic objectives ensuring safe, effective and appropriate care delivery
The Head of Nursing/ Midwifery will support the Divisional Director of Nursing the development and implantation of the Trusts Quality and Nursing and Midwifery Strategy, ensuring robust action plans are in place leading to improvements in care and enabling shared learning across the Division.
Support the regular review of services within the Care Group and Division; in line with informed opinions, information from patients, the changing needs of the patients accessing the service, the organisational aims and objectives and local regional and national evidence based guidance.
In partnership with the General Manager and Clinical Director jointly develop service
strategies, ensure delivery and foster positive partnerships across the organisationand other NHS Organisations
Lead, manage and motivate staff within the Care Group, ensuring appropriate management and delegation structures, policies and practices are in place to achieve high levels of performance in meeting objectives.
Ensure that responsibility for achievement of constitutional targets is well known, and management of sub-optimal performance is managed and appropriately escalated.
Contribute to the effective management of human, financial and physical resources within the Care Group.
Provide leadership on professional issues within the Care Group and ensure related issues from professional bodies are disseminated through to the Care Group.
Set, monitor, implement and maintain standards of clinical practice and patient care through a range of quality improvement and measurement activities that include clinical practice benchmarking, clinical audit, patient satisfaction, performance review and professional accountability
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse and/or Midwife
- First Level degree or equivalent experience
- Master's degree or working towards and able to demonstrate equivalent experience related to Health, Leadership and management
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate advanced clinical decision making and problem solving skills
- Excellent presentation skills in both verbal and written form
- Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to lead, motivate, enthuse and involve individuals and teams
- Proven ability to analyse complex problems and to develop and successfully implement practical and workable solutions to address them
- Committed to the positive leadership and development of Nursing and Midwifery professionals
Desirable
- Patient focused and service orientated
- Coaching mentality with a focus on staff development
Knowledge
Essential
- Broad understanding of Workforce/ Education issues/Operational/NHS issues
- Demonstrate an understanding of nurse productivity recommendations and any other directives related to Nurse staffing
- Demonstrates an understanding of the use of quantitative and qualitative data to inform delivery planning and in monitoring performance and maintaining quality standards
Experience
Essential
- Recent experience of managing complex professional matters/issues
- Evidence of experience with managing complex and challenging situations with assertiveness and compassion
- Proven Nursing/Midwifery leadership/management experience relevant to this post
- Significant experience of the leadership and management of teams of clinical professionals in a complex healthcare environment
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse and/or Midwife
- First Level degree or equivalent experience
- Master's degree or working towards and able to demonstrate equivalent experience related to Health, Leadership and management
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate advanced clinical decision making and problem solving skills
- Excellent presentation skills in both verbal and written form
- Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to lead, motivate, enthuse and involve individuals and teams
- Proven ability to analyse complex problems and to develop and successfully implement practical and workable solutions to address them
- Committed to the positive leadership and development of Nursing and Midwifery professionals
Desirable
- Patient focused and service orientated
- Coaching mentality with a focus on staff development
Knowledge
Essential
- Broad understanding of Workforce/ Education issues/Operational/NHS issues
- Demonstrate an understanding of nurse productivity recommendations and any other directives related to Nurse staffing
- Demonstrates an understanding of the use of quantitative and qualitative data to inform delivery planning and in monitoring performance and maintaining quality standards
Experience
Essential
- Recent experience of managing complex professional matters/issues
- Evidence of experience with managing complex and challenging situations with assertiveness and compassion
- Proven Nursing/Midwifery leadership/management experience relevant to this post
- Significant experience of the leadership and management of teams of clinical professionals in a complex healthcare environment
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).
