Job summary
6 Months secondment or fixed term
CV can be emailed to Simon.Behan@ULH.nhs.uk
This is a key leadership role in the Trust working for the Director of Nursing and as a key member of the senior nursing and midwifery team. Thepost holder will be responsible with the Director of Nursing for the development of an effective framework to enable the delivery of nursing,midwifery and care services within United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust.The post holder will be a highly visible, senior, authoritative individual who provides assurance in collaboration with the Director of Nursing to theBoard. They will be an effective and visible leader who will enable the organisation to continuously improve its performance in relation to nursingand midwifery practice.The post holder will ensure the Trust has a comprehensive and progressive nursing and midwifery framework and sufficiently robust systems ofinternal control, that ensure the Trust consistently delivers on its integrated improvement plan from ward to Board.The post holder will work in collaboration with the Director of Nursing to be the public face of nursing and midwifery and will be responsible for theproduction and delivery of our framework linked to our journey to outstanding.
Main duties of the job
Duties for the role includes headings of :
Professional and Clinical Delivery
Leadership and Management
Workforce
Clinical Research, Audit and Quality Assurance
Responsibility for Information Resources
Financial and Physical Resources
Personal and Professional Development
Please see job job description for a full list of duties
About us
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated
Job description
Job responsibilities
What should you do next?
Dont miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. your NHS needs you!!!
Further information about this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What should you do next?
Dont miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. your NHS needs you!!!
Further information about this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Educated to a master's level in a relevant field of study or equivalent study
- Management or leadership qualification or experience
Desirable
- Have completed or working towards, or plan to work towards a PhD
- Relevant post graduate teaching qualification
Experience
Essential
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, able to interpret and compare highly complex facts, situations and strategies, developing a range of options as the work will focus on major organisational change and developments and therefore highly effective communication skills are required
- Exceptional management and leadership skills with a proven record of introducing organisation and/or system wide change
- Experience of working in a senior role in a similar healthcare environment, within commissioner, provider (acute) or regulatory organisation.
- Ability to present highly complex information to very senior staff at board level and externally, including highly contentious information
- Well-developed and extensive senior experience with health and social care
- Experience of leading a team and delivering excellence through others
- Advanced engagement skills, able to influence and negotiate with colleagues on all levels (internally and externally)
- Advanced change management skills, able to implement and sustain change in a complex environment
- Experience of budget management and cost improvement delivery
- Experience of Quality Improvement /training
Skills
Essential
- Strategic thinker with ability to work as part of a team and able to work on own initiative
- Personally, resilient and able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment
- Pro-active, solutions-driven and keen to achieve consistently high standards of work, dealing with highly complex facts, situations and strategies, and developing a range of options
- Excellent presentational, communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to manage complex clinical and operational situations that involve staff from all levels within an organisation
- Tenacity to pursue goals energetically and succeed despite resistance
- Developed interpersonal and influencing skills
- Strong, professional leadership qualities, assertive and self-confident individual
- Ability to lead, manage and motivate all staff within sphere of responsibility
- Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative and prioritise workload
- Effective IT skills, including the ability to operate Microsoft Office software packages to include Word, Excel, Outlook (email), PowerPoint and navigate the internet
- Current professional knowledge including NMC codes and application to nursing and midwifery practice
- High level of understanding of current national policy and issues in, compliance and standards and the wider NHS
- Ability to analyse complex data and offer professional opinion to clinical and non-clinical directorates where there is differing opinions
- Undertake complex clinical case reviews Experience of conducting research and critiquing clinical evidence
- Evidence of published research
- Ability to perform effectively under pressure while delivering high quality outcomes within agreed timescales
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Educated to a master's level in a relevant field of study or equivalent study
- Management or leadership qualification or experience
Desirable
- Have completed or working towards, or plan to work towards a PhD
- Relevant post graduate teaching qualification
Experience
Essential
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, able to interpret and compare highly complex facts, situations and strategies, developing a range of options as the work will focus on major organisational change and developments and therefore highly effective communication skills are required
- Exceptional management and leadership skills with a proven record of introducing organisation and/or system wide change
- Experience of working in a senior role in a similar healthcare environment, within commissioner, provider (acute) or regulatory organisation.
- Ability to present highly complex information to very senior staff at board level and externally, including highly contentious information
- Well-developed and extensive senior experience with health and social care
- Experience of leading a team and delivering excellence through others
- Advanced engagement skills, able to influence and negotiate with colleagues on all levels (internally and externally)
- Advanced change management skills, able to implement and sustain change in a complex environment
- Experience of budget management and cost improvement delivery
- Experience of Quality Improvement /training
Skills
Essential
- Strategic thinker with ability to work as part of a team and able to work on own initiative
- Personally, resilient and able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment
- Pro-active, solutions-driven and keen to achieve consistently high standards of work, dealing with highly complex facts, situations and strategies, and developing a range of options
- Excellent presentational, communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to manage complex clinical and operational situations that involve staff from all levels within an organisation
- Tenacity to pursue goals energetically and succeed despite resistance
- Developed interpersonal and influencing skills
- Strong, professional leadership qualities, assertive and self-confident individual
- Ability to lead, manage and motivate all staff within sphere of responsibility
- Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative and prioritise workload
- Effective IT skills, including the ability to operate Microsoft Office software packages to include Word, Excel, Outlook (email), PowerPoint and navigate the internet
- Current professional knowledge including NMC codes and application to nursing and midwifery practice
- High level of understanding of current national policy and issues in, compliance and standards and the wider NHS
- Ability to analyse complex data and offer professional opinion to clinical and non-clinical directorates where there is differing opinions
- Undertake complex clinical case reviews Experience of conducting research and critiquing clinical evidence
- Evidence of published research
- Ability to perform effectively under pressure while delivering high quality outcomes within agreed timescales
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).
