Job summary
An opportunity has arisen to join theSenior Leadership Team within our Adult and Specialist Rehabilitation Division as the Professional Lead for Nursing. This is your chance to make an impact by driving excellence and innovation across our services.
As a key member of the leadership team, you will champion a culture of high-quality professional nursing leadership, ensuring that our care reflects the very best of our Trust values. Your vision and expertise will help define the role of nursing in achieving our ambitious goals, delivering outstanding care for patients and their families
The purpose of the role is to provide professional leadership for nursing across the clinical division, developing a clear vision for the contribution of nurses to the overarching ambitions of the service.
To rise to this exciting challenge, you will have substantial leadership experience including quality improvement initiatives. You will be a driven individual with highly developed communication and negotiation skills; you will motivate teams and inspire a culture of continuous improvement. You must have an understanding of inpatient and outpatient services as well as knowledge of education and the workforce in a healthcare setting.
Applications from colleagues from BME backgrounds are particularly welcomed as they are currently underrepresented in our senior team and we are striving to redress this balance and achieve our WRES objective by supporting career progression into these roles.
Main duties of the job
- To deputise for the Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies as required
- As a member of the wider clinical divisional management structure provide strong, clear visionary leadership through team working to ensure effective operational management and delivery of nursing services.
- Support the Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies to have clear oversight of compliance with all domains of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulatory framework.
- To work collaboratively within the Integrated Care System to ensure that we collectively address the local recruitment, retention, leadership and engagement of our nursing workforce.
- To work collaboratively with Divisional and Trust colleagues, to develop and implement professional standards for nursing across the division which supports professional development, leadership, competence, capacity, and standards of conduct.
- To support the Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies, ensuring that sound clinical governance and supervision arrangements are in place at all levels for nursing.
The successful candidate will be leading on workstreams which align with their skills and experience in addition to:
- Quality improvement in the division
- Attendance at key divisional and Trust meetings
- Safeguarding
- IPC and Vaccination
About us
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (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, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the main job and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the main job and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Post graduate qualification at Master's level or equivalent/ BSc degree in nursing studies
- Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
- Evidence of completion of INSPIRE leadership programme or other Leadership qualification/programme
- Demonstrable evidence of robust and extended continuous professional development
- Qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience in Quality Improvement methodologies (QI)
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience at a senior clinical or strategic level in a healthcare setting or social care setting
- Experience of leading successful organisational change and development
- Demonstrable experience of leading improvement activities involving multiple clinical disciplines
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed understanding of place-based care and population health principles
- Highly developed nursing clinical skills in relevant clinical area
- Very highly developed knowledge of nursing and national drivers supporting the clinical division
- Knowledge and understanding of the NMC standards for nurses and how these are applied in complex case situations (and how these interfaces with organisational HR policies)
- Ability to demonstrate excellent report writing skills and an ability to support other professionals in producing clinically appropriate documentation
- Collaborating and partnering skills with internal colleagues at varying levels, external stakeholders and at times experts by experience through co-design and co-production of project opportunities
- Excellent communication, networking, and interpersonal skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Post graduate qualification at Master's level or equivalent/ BSc degree in nursing studies
- Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
- Evidence of completion of INSPIRE leadership programme or other Leadership qualification/programme
- Demonstrable evidence of robust and extended continuous professional development
- Qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience in Quality Improvement methodologies (QI)
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience at a senior clinical or strategic level in a healthcare setting or social care setting
- Experience of leading successful organisational change and development
- Demonstrable experience of leading improvement activities involving multiple clinical disciplines
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed understanding of place-based care and population health principles
- Highly developed nursing clinical skills in relevant clinical area
- Very highly developed knowledge of nursing and national drivers supporting the clinical division
- Knowledge and understanding of the NMC standards for nurses and how these are applied in complex case situations (and how these interfaces with organisational HR policies)
- Ability to demonstrate excellent report writing skills and an ability to support other professionals in producing clinically appropriate documentation
- Collaborating and partnering skills with internal colleagues at varying levels, external stakeholders and at times experts by experience through co-design and co-production of project opportunities
- Excellent communication, networking, and interpersonal skills
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).
