Job summary
**** Please note, this is an internal vacancy and only employees of Birmingham Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC), Trust Bank and agency staff engaged with BCHC are eligible to apply at this time.
** Join Our Team as Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies - Learning Disability Services**
Are you an experienced allied health professional or nurse ready to take on a new and exciting challenge? We present an exceptional 6-month secondment opportunity for a passionate and dedicated individual to step into the role of Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies (DDNT) within Learning Disability Services. This opportunity is offered on a full-time basis for 6 months.
If you are ambitious and highly motivated to succeed, have a proven leadership experience within nursing and therapies, commitment to delivering safe, high-quality care for people with learning disabilities - this could be an ideal opportunity for you. We offer fantastic opportunities to develop yourself and your career and to work alongside some inspirational teams.
The DDNT will be responsible for providing strong, visible, professional and clinical leadership to the Division. The role involves working in partnership with the Divisional Senior Leadership Team, our Corporate Nursing & Therapy colleagues, and other key system stakeholders, to ensure the effective delivery of safe, high quality, safe care across the Division.
Join us in shaping the future and together, we can make a difference.
Main duties of the job
- Provide visible and inspirational leadership to all colleagues across the Division
- Work in partnership with the Divisional Director and Divisional Medical Director ensuring that the Division is fit for purpose and has long- term strategic vision and plans which meet the needs of both national and local priorities, contributing to the success of BCHCFT and reducing organisational risk.
- Have clinical and professional oversight of all Nursing and Therapy clinical services within the Division.
- Act as the named Divisional Lead for Safeguarding and Patient Experience & Infection Prevention Control
- In partnership with the Divisional Medical Director, lead all the Clinical Governance agenda within the Division.
- Responsible for the budget associated with line management responsibilities
see JD&PS for full duties
About us
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
IMPORTANT
- Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process
- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including BUSINESS EMAIL ADDRESS, telephone contact details and postal address
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Responsible for all aspects of Professional Nursing and AHP leadership role to deliver a productive, safe, and efficient nursing workforce to effectively meet patient and service need.
- Work closely with the Director of Therapies/Chief AHP to ensure that the strategic ambitions and objectives for the AHP workforce are delivered in line with the Trust Strategy
- Maintain an up to date professional and specialist knowledge in all relevant clinical areas
- Support the divisional teams to deliver relevant clinical strategies
- Establish a culture of high-quality Professional Nursing/DCP and AHP leadership role across clinical teams. This will be in accordance with Trust values; ensures the delivery of effective, efficient, and high-quality services for all service users
- Strategically lead developments in nursing, DCP and AHP practice in the division to improve service quality, efficiency, and patient experience.
- Provide line management and direction to the Professional leadership team regarding complex nursing/DCP/AHP quality, assurance and safeguarding related clinical matters across all teams, analysing, and interpreting the various options available and facilitate access to the relevant clinical advice, where these matters are outside the remit of the post-holders clinical expertise.
For full detail see JD&PS
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Responsible for all aspects of Professional Nursing and AHP leadership role to deliver a productive, safe, and efficient nursing workforce to effectively meet patient and service need.
- Work closely with the Director of Therapies/Chief AHP to ensure that the strategic ambitions and objectives for the AHP workforce are delivered in line with the Trust Strategy
- Maintain an up to date professional and specialist knowledge in all relevant clinical areas
- Support the divisional teams to deliver relevant clinical strategies
- Establish a culture of high-quality Professional Nursing/DCP and AHP leadership role across clinical teams. This will be in accordance with Trust values; ensures the delivery of effective, efficient, and high-quality services for all service users
- Strategically lead developments in nursing, DCP and AHP practice in the division to improve service quality, efficiency, and patient experience.
- Provide line management and direction to the Professional leadership team regarding complex nursing/DCP/AHP quality, assurance and safeguarding related clinical matters across all teams, analysing, and interpreting the various options available and facilitate access to the relevant clinical advice, where these matters are outside the remit of the post-holders clinical expertise.
For full detail see JD&PS
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Registered Nurse or AHP
- Qualified to Master's degree level or have significant experience working at senior management level
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Extensive recent experience of working in a clinical setting at a senior level in the NHS.
- Evidence of identifying, analysing and mitigating against significant organisational risks
- Experience of and exposure to performance setting, monitoring and tendering for Service opportunities
- Experience of managing change in a complex system involving multiple agencies
- Experience of working with a broad range of key stakeholders at a senior level
- Experience of working with people from diverse communities and evidence of addressing health inequalities
- Significant experience of delivering high quality services Significant experience of managing and delivering organisational change programmes
- Experience of managing complex clinical governance process across multiple clinical services and ability to synthesise information into a robust plan
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to interpret and implement Trust policies and procedures
- Ability to communicate specialist knowledge internally and externally to inform service change
- Robust understanding of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and the ability to lead improvements for both patients and the workforce
- Knowledge and understanding of partner services across a regional health economy
- Ability to identify and interpret major national, regional and local policies changes and the impact services
- Able to engage and motivate others in a collaborative style to achieve joint objectives
- Ability to interpret, communicate and utilise complex data sets to enable management decisions
- Excellent written and presentation skills
personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to work with all stakeholders and partners effectively
- Enthusiastic, self-confident and resilient
- Ability to prioritise workload, think creatively and support others doing this
- Ability to foster an inclusive approach, delegate and motivate people to achieve organisations goals Strong participative and supportive management style whilst also able to take difficult decisions and act assertively
- IT literate (Word, outlook, email, PowerPoint and basic excel)
Other requirements
Essential
- Must be able to travel around the city
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Registered Nurse or AHP
- Qualified to Master's degree level or have significant experience working at senior management level
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Extensive recent experience of working in a clinical setting at a senior level in the NHS.
- Evidence of identifying, analysing and mitigating against significant organisational risks
- Experience of and exposure to performance setting, monitoring and tendering for Service opportunities
- Experience of managing change in a complex system involving multiple agencies
- Experience of working with a broad range of key stakeholders at a senior level
- Experience of working with people from diverse communities and evidence of addressing health inequalities
- Significant experience of delivering high quality services Significant experience of managing and delivering organisational change programmes
- Experience of managing complex clinical governance process across multiple clinical services and ability to synthesise information into a robust plan
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to interpret and implement Trust policies and procedures
- Ability to communicate specialist knowledge internally and externally to inform service change
- Robust understanding of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and the ability to lead improvements for both patients and the workforce
- Knowledge and understanding of partner services across a regional health economy
- Ability to identify and interpret major national, regional and local policies changes and the impact services
- Able to engage and motivate others in a collaborative style to achieve joint objectives
- Ability to interpret, communicate and utilise complex data sets to enable management decisions
- Excellent written and presentation skills
personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to work with all stakeholders and partners effectively
- Enthusiastic, self-confident and resilient
- Ability to prioritise workload, think creatively and support others doing this
- Ability to foster an inclusive approach, delegate and motivate people to achieve organisations goals Strong participative and supportive management style whilst also able to take difficult decisions and act assertively
- IT literate (Word, outlook, email, PowerPoint and basic excel)
Other requirements
Essential
- Must be able to travel around the city
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).
