Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Provide nursing advice to the Divisional Director to ensure that the Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Services are working within the correct legislative and statutory nursing and clinical requirements.
Provide vision and leadership with regards the nursing agenda, taking the lead on the development of policies, care pathways and protocols ensuring implementation of these strategies and policies throughout the Health Board.
To direct, lead and motivate the Nursing team(s) to ensure a high standard of professionalism, efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of the Nursing service, ensuring that activity is fully aligned to the business of the Health Board. This will include coaching and mentoring, resource planning, standard setting, performance management, team and individual development.
Demonstrate and provide a highly visible, transformational leadership, strategic and professional management, working with the Senior Management Teams, service leads and clinicians in the development and delivery of the service improvement and modernisation agenda. Sharing successful strategies Health Board wide.
To oversee the provision of a modernised, patient focused service across the Health Board by providing innovative, pro-active advice and support to the organisation on professional nursing matters.
Ensure that the Health Boards aims and objectives are clearly communicated to the staff within the team.
Ensure that the divisional nursing function is proactive and influential in its contribution to the Health Boards strategic and operational plan.
Lead the teams to ensure a culture of continuous improvement and professional excellence is achieved.
Develop and empower all members of the team to perform to high standards and innovate.
Support the development of future nursing leaders, in particular Sisters/Charge Nurses, Team Leaders and Senior Nurses to deliver excellence in clinical practice.
Develop strategies and processes to ensure the professional development of nursing to deliver high quality, patient centered services.
- Provide professional advice to the Divisional Senior Nurses and agree/review their performance objectives.
Contribute to the development and delivery of Clinical Leadership at Locality/site level.
Actively support the development of leadership skills across Senior Nurses, Sisters/Charge Nurses and Team Leaders.
Ensure that the nursing workforce (Registered Nurses & Health Care Support Workers) is managed and developed and that employment policies/practices are adhered to.
Oversee the negotiation and distribution of annual post-registration nurse education funding for all areas across the Division.
Liaise with the accrediting bodies associated with the Health Boards Resuscitation Service to ensure compliance with international standards of resuscitation.
To ensure that statutory, mandatory and legal obligations are adhered to, including over-arching responsibility for compliance with NMC requirements across the Division.
To lead on public protection and the Safeguarding agenda across the Division.
Ensure the Divisions nursing services are cost effective and continually encourage a review of roles, skills mix of staff to deliver the best possible service within the resources available.
Together with the corporate Workforce & Organisational Development, establish systems and processes to ensure development and implementation of effective recruitment/retention strategies for nursing.
The Divisional Nurse will be accountable for the development, implementation and audit of local nursing, ensuring nursing practice and intervention is to the highest standards to maximise health outcomes.
Implementation of national and local nursing policy.
Contribute to the development and implementation of a framework which will reflect national and local performance indicators.
Actively work with stakeholders to secure improvements in clinical governance in Mental Health & Learning Disabilities care.
Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of progress and to identify remedial or appropriate action where clinical governance is compromised.
Develop systems and processes to deliver and performance manage effective clinical governance across the Division.
Develop a framework to ensure that nurses actively contribute to the development of clinical governance across the Division.
Implement systems to monitor the quality of nursing practice through audit and measurement of clinical risk, complaints, benchmarking and ensure changes to practice are introduced and monitored where appropriate.
Ensure that effective systems are utilised to verify that qualified nurses are appropriately registered to undertake their role.
Advise on and deal with issues of professional discipline, competence and conduct for nurses in accordance with Health Board organisational policy and professional guidance.
Advise on the production of locality risk profiles, in compliance with the Health Boards Risk Management Strategy.
Ensure systems are in place for reviewing clinical and non-clinical events, ensuring that staff are confident to report untoward incidents.
To promote effective working partnerships with statutory and non- statutory bodies, patients and the public.
To ensure structures are in place for regular audit of clinical and non- clinical activity, sharing outcomes across the Division.
To lead workforce planning/modernisation, recruitment and retention, and the KSF, ensuring staff are fit for purpose within the Division.
To act as an advisor on matters relating to professional conduct and NMC issues.
Using and understanding complex information, multi-factorial strands of communication both inside and external to the organisation. This could be through face-to-face meetings, written reports, research, etc.
Provide strong leadership and direction across situations where highly complex ideas, or concepts need to be conveyed and implemented across the organisation in easily understood language such as consultation with service users and their representatives about ward reconfigurations, , service re-design within Mental Health & Learning Disabilities.
Develop close working relationships with the trade unions and professional bodies to facilitate good employee relations to enable the Health Board to deliver its financial targets and business objectives.
Develop strong and constructive working relationships with leading decision makers in other Health Board divisions and partner organisations such as Local Authorities, Universities and Education providers.
