Chief Nursing Officer

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Chief Nursing Officer will be the most senior nursing leader in the local health and care system. The post holder will work collaboratively with system partners to deliver our Pledges and as part of the ICB Unitary Board will make a significant contribution to achieving the four main aims of the ICS:

• Improving outcomes in population health and healthcare
• Tackling inequalities in outcomes experience and access
• Enhancing productivity and value for money
• Helping the NHS support broader social and economic development

The Chief Nursing Officer is part of the executive team who will lead the development of the ICS on behalf of the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin system. Working collaboratively and across organisational boundaries at the highest level across the System ensuring that the approach to integrated commissioning and leading at scale transformation workstreams, develops in line with the ambitions of the system in the coming years.

The Chief Nursing Officer is accountable to the ICB for the Quality and Safety of the System. They will be the lead Director for safety, liaising closely with regulators including the Care Quality Commission.

The Chief Nursing Officer will support the development and delivery of the 5-year plan of the integrated care board (ICB), ensuring this reflects and integrates the strategies of all relevant partner organisations of the ICB, with a particular focus on developing a shared clinical strategy.

• The Chief Nursing Officer will take the lead in overseeing the quality of health services within the ICB including sharing intelligence and working with other key partners and regulators across and outside their system to improve quality of care and They will be supported in this by the Chief Medical Officer and the wider senior clinical team. They will be the lead Director for the ICB Quality and Safety Committee and will be supported by senior clinical leads. The Chief Nursing Officer will attend the System Oversight and Assurance Group (SOAG) and will act as the ICB lead on this group.

• The Chief Nursing Officer is accountable for all matters relating to the relevant professional colleagues across the clinical and care workforce employed by the ICB. This includes designated accountability for statutory and non-statutory functions that the ICB will need to perform. This will include registration as the Caldicott Guardian, quality assurance and
• The Chief Nursing Officer will provide system leadership for the Local Maternity System, with the Chief Medical Officer chairing the LMNS The Chief Nursing Officer will have specific responsibility for the development of maternity services across STW in response to the independent maternity services review, with providers to drive quality and safety and improve outcomes.
• The Chief Nursing Officer will, along with the Chief Medical Officer, have an influential executive role and shared accountability for the development and delivery of the long-term clinical strategy of the ICB, ensuring this reflects and integrates the strategies of all relevant partner organisations within the ICS.
• The Chief Nursing Officer will, along with the Chief Medical Officer, be accountable for providing high quality clinical and professional leadership of the ICBs activities. This includes ensuring that clinical and care professional leadership is embedded at all levels of the ICS as set out in the Clinical and Care Professional Leadership Guidance.
• The Chief Nursing Officer will be responsible for building partnerships and working with provider collaboratives, public health, local government, other partners, and local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes and reductions in health inequity. Working closely with the Chief Medical Officer, the Chief Nursing Officer will be accountable for securing professional clinical and care leadership in delivery of the ICBs objectives and form part of the wider network of clinical and care leaders in the region and nationally. With the ICB board, ensuring that population health management, innovation and research support continuous improvements in patient services including digitally enabled clinical and care transformation and the clinical and care elements of a sustainable People Plan for the ICS workforce.
• Influencing and working collaboratively as part of a wider system to create opportunities to make sustainable long-term improvements to population health with key This may include developing approaches which are non-traditional in nature, ambitious and wide reaching in areas which incorporate the wider determinants that have an impact on improving clinical outcomes, better life outcomes and reducing health inequalities for the population of the ICS.
• Professionally accountable to the regional chief nurse, the Chief Nursing Officer may from time-to-time be formally requested to act on behalf of NHS England on key performance, monitoring and accountability matters. This will include the identification of performance risks and issues related to the quality and safety of patient care and working with relevant providers and partners to enable solutions.
• Taking accountability for own practice, conduct and continuing professional development as a registered professional.

Influencing and contributing to the ICB plans and wider system strategies of the ICS. With the aim of driving innovation in clinical outcomes, reducing health inequalities and achieving better life outcomes across the ICS. This will include creating and influencing leadership relationships and wide scale system change to ensure that the ICB acts as an enabler to harness system development opportunities to improve the population health of the ICS.

Providing professional clinical and professional system leadership across organisational and professional boundaries and pathways to facilitate transformational change, supporting the delivery of the transformation programmes for the ICS population.

Supporting the development and delivery of a five-year ICB plan with the key aim to improve clinical outcomes, better life outcomes and reduce health inequalities, working with the CEO, other board members, partners across the ICS and the local community. Supporting the Chief Medical Officer, the Chief Nursing Officer will be accountable for the supporting clinical strategy, including interpretation and implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan, NICE quality standards and other national strategic priorities.

Working collaboratively with the Chief Medical Officer and wider ICB/ICS colleagues the Chief Nursing Officer will be responsible for developing the necessary multi-disciplinary clinical and care professional leadership required to deliver this strategy, including leading and influencing the development of a diverse group of clinical leaders to enhance the opportunities for collaboration across the ICS. The Chief Nursing Officer will provide professional leadership and management, advocating CPD and championing wellbeing for the nursing and non-medical workforce; supporting the delivery of the People Plan.

Ensuring that there are effective mechanisms for anticipating, identifying, and responding to key clinical risks that could impact on the successful delivery of the strategy. This will include engaging with system leaders from across the ICS to drive research, innovation, quality improvement, patient safety and population health outcomes using a risk- based approach across the ICS footprint.

Leading on the patient safety agenda on behalf of the ICS, working across organisational and professional boundaries to promote robust communication and the development of an integrated and proactive safety culture.

Acting as an ambassador for nursing, midwifery, and allied health professional workforce matters, ensuring there is a talent supply for the ICB working in partnership with key partners and stakeholders. Providing strategic leadership with senior nurses/midwives/allied health professionals (AHPs) and HR/people leaders to develop a fit for purpose workforce to enable the successful delivery of integrated services. Employing innovative techniques to support the development of a talent pipeline strategy that increases the diversity of new recruits and retains the high-quality nurses, midwives, and other allied health professionals.

Collaborating with colleagues in Health Education England, Skills for Health, Skills for Care, and higher education institutions to ensure the current and future needs of health and social care providers are clearly identified and met. This will include enabling entry level career pathways for the local population which supports reducing vacancies and developing opportunities in both health and social care.

Promoting research and innovation to support the development and delivery of the STW ICB strategy, sharing learning to inform approaches to population health management and health improvement across the country through engagement with regional and national colleagues as part of wider integrated care networking opportunities.

Success in this role is dependent on having strong relationships with local patient communities, their representatives, ICS partners and specifically clinical and care professional leaders across health and social care at all levels of the system.

Working collaboratively with care professionals across the STW System, supporting the achievement of consistently high clinical outcomes and positive patient experience through effective audit, implementation of best practice and ensuring clinicians recognise patient perceptions and act on feedback.

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and an understanding of the social determinants of public health
• Comprehensive knowledge of patient safety systems and processes including clinical risk and safeguarding vulnerable people
• Highly sophisticated leadership and influencing skills; building compassionate cultures where individuals and teams thrive at organisation, partnership and system levels

Knowledge

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and an understanding of the social determinants of public health
• Extensive knowledge and credibility across wide range of infection control measures and management
• Exceptional communication skills which engender community confidence, strong collaborations, and partnership

Experience

Essential

• Substantial proven providing board level and/or system leadership within a regulatory environment and across complex systems with demonstrable impact
• Experience of managing highly sensitive situations with patients, service users, families or carers and/or wider advocating agencies
• Substantial board or system leadership health care experience is essential

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

NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board

Address

Ptarmigan House

Shrewsbury Business Park

Shrewsbury

SY26LG

Employer's website

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