Deputy Director of Nursing & Quality

Job description

Job responsibilities

Professional Nursing Leadership

Leads on the implementation of SHPU Nursing Plan.

Works in strong partnership and collaboration with the Directorate Heads of Nursing/Deputy Head of Nursing to provide professional nursing leadership.

Provides strategic advice as required on practice standards, nurse education and safety issues, in accordance with local and national policy and statutory guidance.

Provides professional leadership to nursing staff fostering a culture which values continued professional development and strives for excellence.

Works collaboratively with other professional leads in developing a culture which embeds clinical quality, patient safety, clinical effectiveness and, monitors its impact to ensure continuous improvement.

Oversees the practice placement team and provides supervision to the Lead Nurse for practice placement.

To support the nurse education team in ensuring an effective learning environment.

Supervises Preceptorship lead nurses and ensures adherence to national frameworks.

Works with People partners to deliver nursing recruitment and international nurse recruitment across the directorates, providing supervision to the Nurse Recruitment lead.

Advises on HEE CPD funding allocation and management.

Ensures delivery of the safer staffing requirements for inpatient environments, working with Safer Staffing Leaders.

Leads a multi-disciplinary approach to safer staffing across all clinical teams working in conjunction with professional lead colleagues to ensure transparent staffing reviews aligned to best practice.

Delivers training needs analysis framework across SHPU with professional lead colleagues to support skilled and competent workforce.

Review and analise proposed legislation pertaining to nursing for potential impact within the organization; prepare reports and plans, and write position papers, advising the Director of Nursing and other department Executives and managers of appropriate action.

Represent Nursing & Quality on various committees and task forces, internally and externally including at PLACE and at ICB.

Work collaboratively to influence SHPU`s clinical and quality strategies.

Be accountable for specific clinical policy maintenance within the nursing/quality portfolio.

Provide senior nursing advice around future workforce planning and training to support future models of care which will support the successful development of both formal and informal nursing practice within SHPU.

In conjunction with the Deputy Director of People and senior professional colleagues, contribute to workforce planning and new roles development.

Promote and ensure an effective coaching leadership style is dominant with all nursing staff across the organisation.

Commission and chair complex employee cases.

Frequently deputies for the Executive Director of Nursing including leading on corporate projects which span the breadth of the Director of Nursing responsibilities and may not be restricted to nursing, keeping the DoN informed of any events or issues as they arise.

Safeguarding

In conjunction with the Director of Nursing, ensure the development and implementation of SHPUs safeguarding vision and strategy that enables the fulfilment of statutory duties in relation to safeguarding children and adults.

Regularly deputise for the DoN at local Safeguarding Children and Adults Boards,

Work closely with the Head of Safeguarding to gain assurance of effective safeguarding services within SHPU.

Assess continuous improvement of the standard of safeguarding practices within SHPU through effective communication, involvement and awareness of clinical practices and service provision, teaching, audit, policy development and advice and support to all staff in service development and promotion of best practice for safeguarding children and adults.

Clinical Governance & Complaints

Provide oversight to the Head of Clinical Governance and Risk to ensure compliance with incident management systems, complaints, CQUINS and Quality account / objective development and reporting aligned to the best practice requirements.

Reducing Restrictive Practice

Ensure the delivery of the least restrictive practice (LRP) strategy through the supervision and support of the Nurse Consultant for LRP and the RESPECT training team. Chairing appropriate fora to engage with ward teams and experts by experience

Clinical Risk

Working in partnership with clinical and operational colleagues ensuring delivery of a clinical risk assessment process for teams in SHPU which is evidence based and aligns to best practice.

Maintain oversight of ligature anchor point reviews and support best practice in managing ligature use.

Support the regular audit and improvement plans for clinical record keeping working closely with the Clinical Effectiveness and Audit team.

To ensure that care planning and risk assessments are of a high standard across SHPU.

Quality Governance and Leadership

Ensure the voice of service users and carers informs the strategy and delivery of the work programmes working closely with the engagement and experience team.

Chair key quality Tier II groups, holding members to account for delivery of requirements aligned to workplans, supporting reporting to the Quality Assurance Committee.

Working with the Head of Clinical Quality Standards support the delivery of clinical quality / fundamental standard visits.

Contribute to Clinical Effectiveness, research, innovation and QI agendas, ensuring communication of performance reaches all staff, working with teams to address any variation in best practice.

Work in partnership with PLACE ICB Quality Leads in monitoring safe and effective care to patients/service users.

To support SHP in delivering external audits and reports regarding nursing standards and governance.

Ensure the clinical governance team deliver timely and compassionate responses to complaints, taking personal responsibility for complex or significant complaints that need senior intervention.

Monitor progress against improvement action plans and highlight areas of concern.

Ensure the implementation of policies and procedures to ensure they meet the CQC standards for safety.

Responsible for the production of the annual quality accounts with support from Clinical Governance Team.

They will in addition, be responsible for working in collaboration to provide expert nursing advice to the emergency planning officer, health and safety, estates and informatics to maintain business continuity and response in the case of unforeseen circumstances, or where services are subject to redesign.

The post holder will be expected to deputise for the Director of Nursing, Professions and Quality at a variety of forums including Trust Board and at a system level across the footprint in which SHPU operates.

The post holder will be required to participate in Out of Hours/On call Arrangements in line with SHPU Policy and any local arrangements.

Actively promote and demonstrate SHPU values

Finance

Shared responsibility for achieving agreed financial objectives across clinical and corporate nursing/quality services.

Escalate concerns and potential risks which may impact on the delivery of high-quality safe care.

Work with commissioners to identify and achieve local service developments and business growth, and the projection of a positive reputation for nursing.

Accountable to the Director of Nursing for significant financial resources and effective budgetary management across the Nursing Directorate as allocated.

Holds budgets for direct line reports.

In partnership with the Director of Nursing and nominated deputies, ensure robust budgetary management which delivers best value across the nursing directorate.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Evidence of working with service users, carers and/or families to improve the quality of services through coproduction
• Understanding of Quality Improvement methodologies
• Evidence of managing safeguarding within a portfolio and clear understanding of the relevant legal and statutory NHS requirements
• Demonstrates the ability to improve clinical quality in a range of mental health and learning disability settings through effective change programmes.
• In depth understanding and ability to interpret national policy in relation to clinical quality.
• Ability to manage relationships with Care Quality Commission and a range of commissioners in a deputised role.
• Evidence of cross professional working with clinical colleagues to improve outcomes for staff and service users.
• Experience of responding to complaints and demonstrating civility in plain English.
• Understanding of the local health economy and NHS operating environment.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree
• Masters or equivalent experience (or studying).
• Clinical qualification RNMH or RNLD with specialist knowledge covering a wide range of clinical areas.
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Non-Medical Prescriber
• Aspiring Deputy Director of Nursing Course (or similar

Experience

Essential

• Broad career history at a senior nursing level across a variety of clinical and professional functions e.g. Head of Nursing for a range of services.
• Extensive experience in a senior management role within the NHS.
• Evidence of managing and delivering quality governance portfolio at a strategic level.
• Demonstrates successful leadership of change within a large complex multi sited organisation.
• Experience of delivering challenging targets and improvement plans within timescales.
• Experience of writing papers at Committee and Board level in a plain English style.
• Knowledge of key quality indicators for Mental Health services and the requirements for reporting and recovery plans aligned to quality in clinical services.
• Understands the professional nurse agenda for the NMC within the NHS and demonstrates the ability to articulate and advise services to these standards.
• Experience of staff development, appraisal, supervision and performance management.
• Ability to work in partnership, across artificial boundaries to improve outcomes for service users and their families and carers.
• Well-developed leadership and motivational skills.
• Understands the key legal frameworks in which mental health and learning disability services operate

Desirable

• Has led programmes of work to support the reduction of the Use of Force/ Restrictive Practices.
• Understanding of clinical risk frameworks and application across whole organisations

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Centre Court

2 Atlas Way

Sheffield

S4 7QQ

Employer's website

https://www.sheffieldpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)