Job summary
Job Title: Director of Nursing(Women and Chidrens)
Division: Divisional
Care Group: Womens and Childrens Services
Band: 8d
Salary: £83,571 - £96,376
Interview Date: Week Commencing 12th December 2023
We are recruiting for a Director of Operation who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best 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.
The Director of Nursing is managerially and professionally accountable for the leadership and clinical effectiveness of all nurses within the Division. Providing effective clinical leadership in ensuring that the nursing agenda is clearly part of the Divisional Triumvirate Team decision making, service developments and contributes to both the local Division and Trust strategic objectives including quality initiatives and targets.
The Director Nursing is the divisional lead for Quality Governance and Risk Management, ensuring processes are in place for monitoring, management and analysis of incident reporting at divisional level; in addition will be the divisional lead for complaints and patient experience; ensuring patients and users of the services are given the opportunity to feedback on their experiences and to be involved in service development and redesign.
Main duties of the job
The Director of Nursing will lead, inspire and develop the nursing workforce within the Division to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care that meets the needs of the patient. Ensuring the Division has a comprehensive, progressive and sufficiently robust systems of internal control in place to implement and monitor the Patient First Strategy, so as to ensure the Trust consistently delivers on its vision of exceptional healthcare, personally delivered, are established and working effectively from ward to Board.
The Director Nursing will support the Chief Nursing Officer and Director of Midwifery with the delivery of a wider corporate nursing and quality agenda including (but not limited too) patient safety, patient experience, improved outcomes and the delivery of the Trust's Patient First Strategy for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (AHP).
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
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
With the Chief Operating Officer and the Divisional Triumvirate Team the Director of Nursing will have shared accountability for the operational performance and strategic development of their Division.
The Director of Nursing will ensure ongoing compliance with the Care Quality Commissions regulations and that the fundamentals of care standards are delivered effectively within the Division and that competence in clinical practice is both maintained and developed in order to maximise the patient experience as well as the safety and quality of service.
The Director of Nursing is professionally accountable to the Chief Nursing Officer for professional conduct of nurses and for the development of nursing services within the Division and is managerially accountable to the Chief Operating Officer.
The post holder is accountable for the direct delivery of nursing services within the Division and will provide the vision and support to the Chief Operating Officer in ensuring the development of services to meet the current and future requirements within the Division.
The post holder is also responsible for contributing effectively to the implementation of the Professional Nursing agenda and is responsible for ensuring that the required clinical outcomes for quality patient care are met. The post holder is responsible for ensuring that services maintain clinical excellence.
Provide clinical leadership, ensuring a professional, visible role model to all nursing staff in the Division. This will include working clinically on a regular basis.
Be an effective leader of change, embedding a culture of psychological safety and continuous quality improvement, innovation and use of technology that meets the changing needs of patients and users
Job description
Job responsibilities
With the Chief Operating Officer and the Divisional Triumvirate Team the Director of Nursing will have shared accountability for the operational performance and strategic development of their Division.
The Director of Nursing will ensure ongoing compliance with the Care Quality Commissions regulations and that the fundamentals of care standards are delivered effectively within the Division and that competence in clinical practice is both maintained and developed in order to maximise the patient experience as well as the safety and quality of service.
The Director of Nursing is professionally accountable to the Chief Nursing Officer for professional conduct of nurses and for the development of nursing services within the Division and is managerially accountable to the Chief Operating Officer.
The post holder is accountable for the direct delivery of nursing services within the Division and will provide the vision and support to the Chief Operating Officer in ensuring the development of services to meet the current and future requirements within the Division.
The post holder is also responsible for contributing effectively to the implementation of the Professional Nursing agenda and is responsible for ensuring that the required clinical outcomes for quality patient care are met. The post holder is responsible for ensuring that services maintain clinical excellence.
Provide clinical leadership, ensuring a professional, visible role model to all nursing staff in the Division. This will include working clinically on a regular basis.
Be an effective leader of change, embedding a culture of psychological safety and continuous quality improvement, innovation and use of technology that meets the changing needs of patients and users
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
- Degree in relevant clinical or nursing subject
- Registered and practising nurse with current live NMC registration.
- Masters Degree in relevant subject or equivelant level of experience, supplemented further by evidence of continuing professional
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to think, develop, plan and implement strategically, tactically and creatively
- Influence at a strategic level across and beyond complex organisations
- Ability to analyse complex and sensitive problems and to develop and successfully implement practical and workable solutions to address them
- High-level problem-solving approach, proactive and resourceful, professional, negotiation, interpersonal, administrative, analytical, advocacy, training and counselling skills.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior clinical management experience relevant to the post
- Experience of working as a senior AHP or nurse in leadership and management role in a health care environment at a Deputy Director level or equivalent.
- Demonstrable experience of strategic planning across divisions
- Demonstrable previous success in leading and delivering significant change and performance with and through multiple and diverse clinical teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
Skills
Essential
- Excellent well developed leadership, influencing and motivational skills to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust's and your performance expectations and delivery of corporate objectives
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
- Excellent inter-personal skills with the ability to positively interact in difficult, highly emotive and potentially hostile situations, including to distressed and or large groups of people in a politically aware and sensitive manner
- Highly developed communication skills, with the ability to deliver presentations and represent the Trust in the media
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
- Degree in relevant clinical or nursing subject
- Registered and practising nurse with current live NMC registration.
- Masters Degree in relevant subject or equivelant level of experience, supplemented further by evidence of continuing professional
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to think, develop, plan and implement strategically, tactically and creatively
- Influence at a strategic level across and beyond complex organisations
- Ability to analyse complex and sensitive problems and to develop and successfully implement practical and workable solutions to address them
- High-level problem-solving approach, proactive and resourceful, professional, negotiation, interpersonal, administrative, analytical, advocacy, training and counselling skills.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior clinical management experience relevant to the post
- Experience of working as a senior AHP or nurse in leadership and management role in a health care environment at a Deputy Director level or equivalent.
- Demonstrable experience of strategic planning across divisions
- Demonstrable previous success in leading and delivering significant change and performance with and through multiple and diverse clinical teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
Skills
Essential
- Excellent well developed leadership, influencing and motivational skills to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust's and your performance expectations and delivery of corporate objectives
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
- Excellent inter-personal skills with the ability to positively interact in difficult, highly emotive and potentially hostile situations, including to distressed and or large groups of people in a politically aware and sensitive manner
- Highly developed communication skills, with the ability to deliver presentations and represent the Trust in the media
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).
