Job summary
NHS England SW region is seeking a Deputy Director of Nursing & Quality. The postholder will directly manage the Direct Commissioning Quality and Safeguarding team and be responsible for quality management systems in relation to directly commissioned services.
As Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality for Commissioning, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across NHS South West Region, working in close partnership with regional colleagues, as well as across System Partners including ICBs, NHS and Independent Providers and, as necessary, Local Authorities.
The post holder will develop effective strategy and operational policies for promoting quality governance, improvement and innovation across Health and Social Care Systems and will contribute to the delivery of the NHS long-term plan workstreams.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with colleagues across the sector, ensuring coherent strategy, the post holder will:
- Drive the strategy for improvement, supporting and ensuring alignment across the system
- Drive, reform and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence
- Develop and communicate the vision for the role of innovation and the development of strategy and operational policies to support this vision
- Engage with key strategic Regional and National policy makers to inform development of strategy and policies
- Identify examples of National and International best practice and ensure that NHS England benefits from relevant innovations in healthcare
- Support improvement by developing the innovation infrastructure and capacity in organisations
- Develop and champion new initiatives or projects as necessary
- Work with Providers and Clinical Experts to design new training products
- Provide expertise of best practice methodologies, regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments and Stakeholders knowledge
About us
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you'll usually need to be paid the 'standard' salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the 'going rate' for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To work collaboratively across the NHS England national and regional teams, including integrating the National Directors portfolio
- To work in a matrix way, acting as a system leader to support the delivery of the objectives of NHS England including quality, safety and patient experience
- To work as part of a dynamic team in delivering the objectives and priorities aligned to promotion of quality, safety, patient experience and engagement and supporting managers, clinicians and staff across the region and nationally. Working collaboratively, as part of the regional team, local delivery hubs and other regions
- Working with other commissioners and enabling a multi- professional contribution to commissioning high-quality care and a positive impact upon individual and population health
- Oversee quality of healthcare for children, young people and adults across the regions secure and detained settings, which includes prisons, secure facilities for children and young people, police and courts, Liaison and Diversion services, immigration removal centres and sexual assault referral centres, maintaining the principle of equivalence which means that the health needs of a population constrained by their circumstances are not compromised and that they receive an equal level of service as that offered to the rest of the population
- To hold providers to account for the quality of services across all services commissioned
- To be responsible for overseeing assurance and performance of patient safety events for those services commissioned directly by the NHS England
- To promote quality, innovation, productivity and prevention in health and health care services within the scope of ones work and the work of others
- To lead on the negotiation, monitoring and assurance of delivery against agreed CQUIN schemes
- To safeguard children and adults and provide regional leadership, oversight and accountability for safeguarding within specialised commissioning and health and justice commissioned services.
- To provide clinical advice and leadership for nursing care and lead on quality, safety and patient experiencer.
- To promote quality, innovation, productivity and improve quality of care and patient outcomes, driving transformation though a large-scale change model
- To deliver the Quality Assurance Improvement Framework for directly commissioned services, driving improvements through the annual assessment process
- Contribute to national leadership including Individual Funding Request panels, Programme of Care Boards and Director of Nursing Forums
- To respond to the demands placed on quality assurance and patient safety in prisons, IRCs and the secure childrens estate, with regard to responses to deaths in custody, and with regard to reporting on the pressures impacting healthcare
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To work collaboratively across the NHS England national and regional teams, including integrating the National Directors portfolio
- To work in a matrix way, acting as a system leader to support the delivery of the objectives of NHS England including quality, safety and patient experience
- To work as part of a dynamic team in delivering the objectives and priorities aligned to promotion of quality, safety, patient experience and engagement and supporting managers, clinicians and staff across the region and nationally. Working collaboratively, as part of the regional team, local delivery hubs and other regions
- Working with other commissioners and enabling a multi- professional contribution to commissioning high-quality care and a positive impact upon individual and population health
- Oversee quality of healthcare for children, young people and adults across the regions secure and detained settings, which includes prisons, secure facilities for children and young people, police and courts, Liaison and Diversion services, immigration removal centres and sexual assault referral centres, maintaining the principle of equivalence which means that the health needs of a population constrained by their circumstances are not compromised and that they receive an equal level of service as that offered to the rest of the population
- To hold providers to account for the quality of services across all services commissioned
- To be responsible for overseeing assurance and performance of patient safety events for those services commissioned directly by the NHS England
- To promote quality, innovation, productivity and prevention in health and health care services within the scope of ones work and the work of others
- To lead on the negotiation, monitoring and assurance of delivery against agreed CQUIN schemes
- To safeguard children and adults and provide regional leadership, oversight and accountability for safeguarding within specialised commissioning and health and justice commissioned services.
- To provide clinical advice and leadership for nursing care and lead on quality, safety and patient experiencer.
- To promote quality, innovation, productivity and improve quality of care and patient outcomes, driving transformation though a large-scale change model
- To deliver the Quality Assurance Improvement Framework for directly commissioned services, driving improvements through the annual assessment process
- Contribute to national leadership including Individual Funding Request panels, Programme of Care Boards and Director of Nursing Forums
- To respond to the demands placed on quality assurance and patient safety in prisons, IRCs and the secure childrens estate, with regard to responses to deaths in custody, and with regard to reporting on the pressures impacting healthcare
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Midwife with appropriate professional qualification
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
Desirable
- Formal qualification in quality improvement
Knowledge & experience
Essential
- Significant Senior Management level experience in the NHS (provider and commissioning)
- Experience of working in a senior Nursing role in a Commissioning organisation
- Experience of representing NHS England on national panels
- Extensive experience of developing and successfully implementing national strategies and initiatives
- Well-developed networks across the NHS
- Experience of working with local politicians, media, and other significant stakeholders, particularly in times of crisis
- Significant evidence of contribution to nursing leadership
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to Nursing leadership and Direct Commissioned services
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment
- Proven experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies or a Prince 2 or managing successful projects practitioner
- Experience and/or understanding of the UK Health Economy
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
- Experience of leading major change initiatives with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment
- Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial process requirements
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
- Member of a relevant professional body
Desirable
- Extensive experience of developing and delivering national strategies
Skills, capabilities & attributes
Essential
- Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment with knowledge of and experience in handling media relations
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical)
- Demonstrable ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience gained to make inferences and decision making
- Significant ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
- Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
- Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management
- Demonstrable ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
- Demonstrable ability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues Demonstrable ability to use autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation
- Ability to use quality improvement methodology to analyse and respond to challenges to inform quality improvement approaches
Values & behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
Other
Essential
- Able to travel across various sites where applicable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Midwife with appropriate professional qualification
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
Desirable
- Formal qualification in quality improvement
Knowledge & experience
Essential
- Significant Senior Management level experience in the NHS (provider and commissioning)
- Experience of working in a senior Nursing role in a Commissioning organisation
- Experience of representing NHS England on national panels
- Extensive experience of developing and successfully implementing national strategies and initiatives
- Well-developed networks across the NHS
- Experience of working with local politicians, media, and other significant stakeholders, particularly in times of crisis
- Significant evidence of contribution to nursing leadership
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to Nursing leadership and Direct Commissioned services
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment
- Proven experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies or a Prince 2 or managing successful projects practitioner
- Experience and/or understanding of the UK Health Economy
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
- Experience of leading major change initiatives with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment
- Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial process requirements
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
- Member of a relevant professional body
Desirable
- Extensive experience of developing and delivering national strategies
Skills, capabilities & attributes
Essential
- Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment with knowledge of and experience in handling media relations
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical)
- Demonstrable ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience gained to make inferences and decision making
- Significant ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
- Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
- Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management
- Demonstrable ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
- Demonstrable ability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues Demonstrable ability to use autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation
- Ability to use quality improvement methodology to analyse and respond to challenges to inform quality improvement approaches
Values & behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation
- Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
Other
Essential
- Able to travel across various sites where applicable
Additional information
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).
