Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for a Community Associate Director of Nursing at University Hospital Tees (UHT)
The community associate director of nursing will be part of a triumvirate team and will be jointly accountable for developing the longer-term strategic direction of the community clinical service unit in partnership with the service director and associate director of operations, providing clinical expertise. The post holder will work within the community clinical service unit across UHT group ensuring safe, high-quality care and developing the workforce requirements in line with the expectations of the 10-year plan to support effective pathways to facilitate patient care closer to home.
As a key professional leader the associate director of nursing will:
- provide strategic and operational direction to all nurses within the clinical service unit
- be responsible for providing the fundamentals of care to a high standard
- be accountable for safe staffing and ensure robust risk management and governance arrangements are in place
- Develop and lead workforce transformation to enable effective pathways of care closer to home
Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an integral part of the organisation's senior nursing team working with other associate directors of nursing, heads of nursing, deputy directors of nursing, the director of nursing and the executive chief nursing officer.
For the associate director of nursing post, we are seeking a highly motivated, experienced, values driven nurse with excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills to drive integrated services, who is passionate about community care.
Further developing a safety first - caring better together culture at University Hospitals Tees.
Interviews will take place Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th November.
About us
We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:
o Your Leadership Impacto Leading your Team to Successo Leading Into the Futureo Service Improvement for Beginnerso Developing your Service Improvement Skillso Lean Practitioner
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
o Explore leadership within the NHSo Promote Trust values and behaviourso Develop your leadership effectiveness and skillso Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- oRegistered Nurse
- oFirst Degree in Nursing / health related subject
- oMaster's level qualification in health or leadership-related subject
- oLeadership qualification
Desirable
- oPhD/Doctorate or working towards
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- oSignificant clinical leadership experience
- oSignificant experience of working at a senior level in a complex environment
- oAbility for complex decision making
- oExperience of leading service evaluation, audit, or research
- oDevelopment and delivery of strategies
- oEffective in organisational and planning skills to meet deadlines
- oAbility to prioritise a complex workload and work independently in a rapidly changing environment
- oExperience of working within an accreditation programme
- oAbility to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information
Desirable
- oPresentations at regional, national, international level
- oExperience in leading own research / audit / publication
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- oAdvanced IT skills
- oAbility to interpret, analyse and communicate highly complex data and information in written reports, presentations, and verbal updates
- oPeople management / complex problem solving at a senior level
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- oRegistered Nurse
- oFirst Degree in Nursing / health related subject
- oMaster's level qualification in health or leadership-related subject
- oLeadership qualification
Desirable
- oPhD/Doctorate or working towards
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- oSignificant clinical leadership experience
- oSignificant experience of working at a senior level in a complex environment
- oAbility for complex decision making
- oExperience of leading service evaluation, audit, or research
- oDevelopment and delivery of strategies
- oEffective in organisational and planning skills to meet deadlines
- oAbility to prioritise a complex workload and work independently in a rapidly changing environment
- oExperience of working within an accreditation programme
- oAbility to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information
Desirable
- oPresentations at regional, national, international level
- oExperience in leading own research / audit / publication
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- oAdvanced IT skills
- oAbility to interpret, analyse and communicate highly complex data and information in written reports, presentations, and verbal updates
- oPeople management / complex problem solving at a senior level
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).
