Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a well motivated individual to join us at Independent Health Group as Chief Nurse. This will be a key post in ensuring the delivery of quality and patient
safety outcomes across our growing organisation. You will provide professional
leadership for all Nursing and all non-medical professionals by ensuring high
quality standards of clinical care within the resources available and adherence
to professional standards of practice.
The role
offers hybrid working with the requirement to attend our Hub in Peasedown St
John as well as visiting our clinical sites. It is a full time role, 37.5 hours per week, worked Monday to Friday.
In addition to a competitive salary,
Independent Health Group offers an employer pension contribution of 6% of your
earnings. We also offer 25 days annual
leave, a day off for your birthday (if it falls on one of your working days),
bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to a further 2 weeks of annual leave.
Main duties of the job
The Chief Nurse is responsible for ensuring all clinical services are well-led and effectively managed, in line with NHS contractual requirements and CQC regulations.
You will promote a high performance, values-based culture which enables staff to deliver outstanding care and ensures the organisation delivers its contractual requirements and business plan.
You will work in partnership with the Medical Director for the delivery of effective Clinical and Care Governance disciplines, systems, and processes within Independent Health Group
The Chief Nurse will be a key member of the Independent Health Groups Board and Senior Management Team, you will set the framework for the design, delivery and monitoring of the risk management and quality strategies thereby ensuring patient safety, patient experience and clinical outcomes maintain and improve on the CQC outstanding rating.
At corporate level you will hold the following portfolios and accountability:
- Patient Safety and Experience
- Risk Management
- Organisational Lead for Infection, Prevention and Control
- Organisational Lead for Safeguarding Vulnerable people (Level 4)
- Care Quality Commission engagement and inspection
- Professional lead and senior responsible officer for Nursing and all non-medical professions
For further discussion about this role please contact Susie Taylor, Head of HR, at susannah.taylor1@nhs.net. If you prefer to apply via CV, please forward this along with a covering letter to inhg.hr@nhs.net.
About us
Independent Health Group (IHG) was set up in 2004 by Dr Matthew Wordsworth with the aim of offering patients the choice of being
treated out of hospital, closer to home. Matt wanted to create a new health care organisation in which
like-minded health care professionals could deliver truly patient centred care. Our aim was to be a
leading provider of community-based diagnostic and treatment services of the highest quality,
where patients always come first.
In the summer of 2022 we were proud to receive an OUTSTANDING CQC rating.
Since 2004 we have grown the range of services we offer, and the sites we work from, and we believe that IHG offers you an opportunity to make a real difference to patients
care and treatment.
We pride ourselves on the quality of care we offer our patients.
IHG provides services from several locations in Wiltshire, Leicester, Gloucester and Devon, providing
surgical services including hand surgery, podiatric surgery, hernia, vasectomy and ophthalmology. All
the work we undertake is for the NHS
We work in a different kind of environment to that of an acute hospital setting. Our patients see the same
clinician and are offered specific appointment times. Our staff work within small teams with plenty of time
for patient contact. Working with us will offer you the opportunity to contribute to the
development of a fantastic organisation, as well as the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge
in a health care setting.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Principal
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Contribute fully to the development and implementation of
strategies and policies for developing and modernising nursing clinical
practice and services to ensure high quality, safe health care services for our
patients and for the delivery of statutory and corporate responsibilities
aligned to this.
- Ensure contribution to the workforce plans; ensure the
development of new roles that meet the needs of the organisation and ensure a
focus on the recruitment and retention priorities for nursing staff.
- Provide professional leadership and direction to all nurses
and non-medical professionals, promoting a culture which values continual professional
development that strives for excellence in all aspects of equitable and
inclusive high quality care delivery.
- Provide leadership, oversight, and support to the implementation
of the quality improvement priorities and quality measurements as described in
the quality accounts. Ensure the delivery of the Quality Accounts within the
prescribed timeframes.
- Work in collaboration with Chief Operating Officer to ensure
effective, safe, and high quality of all IHG services that meet the needs of
the day-to-day organisational requirements and any new business development or
services in line with the business plans.
Professional Leadership:
- Provide the Board of Directors, the Senior Management team
and Clinical Divisions with professional support and direction in all aspects
relating to nursing and quality.
- Provide professional clinical leadership to nursing staff
that supports innovation and quality improvement of care and services.
- Ensure the highest standards of professional care that
demonstrates full compliance with regulatory professional requirements.
Risk
and Quality:
- Responsibility for developing the quality and risk
management strategies through a process of clinical and managerial engagement.
The strategies will ensure that a learning organisation is maintained and that
there is a focus on near miss reporting and learning and organisational sharing
of learning from incidents.
- In partnership with the Medical Director, ensure that
Independent Health Groups statutory obligations in clinical services are met
and ensure safe and proper standards of clinical practice.
- Encourage, support, and develop evidence-based practice.
- Promote and develop innovative and creative approaches to
clinical quality and quality performance, establishing key performance
indicators for benchmarking and ensure scope for continuous improvement.
- As Organisation lead for the Quality & Standards ensure
the functional requirements for patient safety, patient experience, clinical
effectiveness, complaints, litigation, risk management, safeguarding vulnerable
people and clinical audit and quality improvement are met.
- You will ensure the proper systems and processes are in
place thereby providing assurance to the Board of Directors.
- Provide corporate leadership on the compliance with the Care
Quality Commission key lines of enquiry and ensure a system of assurance for
providing evidence of compliance.
Strategy development and business planning:
- As a director and member of the senior management team, you
will share full corporate responsibility for the overall strategic development
and the day to day running of the organisation.
- Contribute to the development of the strategy and
implementation of the long-term plan.
- As a member of the senior management team, take an active
role in developing performance improvement and service innovation initiatives
that respond to patient and commissioner needs
- Share corporate responsibility for the execution, monitoring
and achievement of quality, financial and performance standards.
- Ensure the reporting of quality measures to the Board
demonstrating continuous improvement and achievement of quality standards.
Leadership
and Workforce Planning:
- Advise the Board on issues of skill mix, deployment, and
utilisation of the nursing workforce consistent with NMC standards and those of
other appropriate professional bodies.
- In partnership with the Head of Human Resources ensure that
workforce planning, retention and recruitment of nursing and non-medical
professionals is of a standard that delivers high quality care, whilst
delivering the workforce plans.
- Foster compassionate leadership and an inclusive and respectful
culture where colleagues value and seek diverse perspectives and actively build
healthy and effective teams.
- Drive conversations around creating cultures where nursing
staff can thrive and ensure that barriers to this are addressed.
- Ensure the link between psychologically safe teams, staff
engagement and retention, and the delivery of safe, high quality patient care
is recognised.
- Ensure that professional, managerial and leadership
development of nursing is maintained and reviewed annually.
- Ensure support, through objective setting, appraisal, and
personal development, to all direct reports. Manage the budget and ensure value
for money.
Core
Requirements for all Directors:
- To contribute to the strategic direction of the Independent
Health Group and to ensure that agreed direction is joined up and well
communicated and understood within the organisation.
- Demonstrate our company values (Patient First, Teamwork
& Continuous Improvement) and promote within our organisation, always leading
by example.
- Contribute to the development of corporate objectives and
overall performance of the organisation.
- Ensure that patients, staff, and other persons are protected
against risks, including HCAI through the provision of appropriate care and
environmental facilities.
- Contribute effectively as a member of the Board of Directors.
- Build and foster high level progressive working
relationships with external bodies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Principal
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Contribute fully to the development and implementation of
strategies and policies for developing and modernising nursing clinical
practice and services to ensure high quality, safe health care services for our
patients and for the delivery of statutory and corporate responsibilities
aligned to this.
- Ensure contribution to the workforce plans; ensure the
development of new roles that meet the needs of the organisation and ensure a
focus on the recruitment and retention priorities for nursing staff.
- Provide professional leadership and direction to all nurses
and non-medical professionals, promoting a culture which values continual professional
development that strives for excellence in all aspects of equitable and
inclusive high quality care delivery.
- Provide leadership, oversight, and support to the implementation
of the quality improvement priorities and quality measurements as described in
the quality accounts. Ensure the delivery of the Quality Accounts within the
prescribed timeframes.
- Work in collaboration with Chief Operating Officer to ensure
effective, safe, and high quality of all IHG services that meet the needs of
the day-to-day organisational requirements and any new business development or
services in line with the business plans.
Professional Leadership:
- Provide the Board of Directors, the Senior Management team
and Clinical Divisions with professional support and direction in all aspects
relating to nursing and quality.
- Provide professional clinical leadership to nursing staff
that supports innovation and quality improvement of care and services.
- Ensure the highest standards of professional care that
demonstrates full compliance with regulatory professional requirements.
Risk
and Quality:
- Responsibility for developing the quality and risk
management strategies through a process of clinical and managerial engagement.
The strategies will ensure that a learning organisation is maintained and that
there is a focus on near miss reporting and learning and organisational sharing
of learning from incidents.
- In partnership with the Medical Director, ensure that
Independent Health Groups statutory obligations in clinical services are met
and ensure safe and proper standards of clinical practice.
- Encourage, support, and develop evidence-based practice.
- Promote and develop innovative and creative approaches to
clinical quality and quality performance, establishing key performance
indicators for benchmarking and ensure scope for continuous improvement.
- As Organisation lead for the Quality & Standards ensure
the functional requirements for patient safety, patient experience, clinical
effectiveness, complaints, litigation, risk management, safeguarding vulnerable
people and clinical audit and quality improvement are met.
- You will ensure the proper systems and processes are in
place thereby providing assurance to the Board of Directors.
- Provide corporate leadership on the compliance with the Care
Quality Commission key lines of enquiry and ensure a system of assurance for
providing evidence of compliance.
Strategy development and business planning:
- As a director and member of the senior management team, you
will share full corporate responsibility for the overall strategic development
and the day to day running of the organisation.
- Contribute to the development of the strategy and
implementation of the long-term plan.
- As a member of the senior management team, take an active
role in developing performance improvement and service innovation initiatives
that respond to patient and commissioner needs
- Share corporate responsibility for the execution, monitoring
and achievement of quality, financial and performance standards.
- Ensure the reporting of quality measures to the Board
demonstrating continuous improvement and achievement of quality standards.
Leadership
and Workforce Planning:
- Advise the Board on issues of skill mix, deployment, and
utilisation of the nursing workforce consistent with NMC standards and those of
other appropriate professional bodies.
- In partnership with the Head of Human Resources ensure that
workforce planning, retention and recruitment of nursing and non-medical
professionals is of a standard that delivers high quality care, whilst
delivering the workforce plans.
- Foster compassionate leadership and an inclusive and respectful
culture where colleagues value and seek diverse perspectives and actively build
healthy and effective teams.
- Drive conversations around creating cultures where nursing
staff can thrive and ensure that barriers to this are addressed.
- Ensure the link between psychologically safe teams, staff
engagement and retention, and the delivery of safe, high quality patient care
is recognised.
- Ensure that professional, managerial and leadership
development of nursing is maintained and reviewed annually.
- Ensure support, through objective setting, appraisal, and
personal development, to all direct reports. Manage the budget and ensure value
for money.
Core
Requirements for all Directors:
- To contribute to the strategic direction of the Independent
Health Group and to ensure that agreed direction is joined up and well
communicated and understood within the organisation.
- Demonstrate our company values (Patient First, Teamwork
& Continuous Improvement) and promote within our organisation, always leading
by example.
- Contribute to the development of corporate objectives and
overall performance of the organisation.
- Ensure that patients, staff, and other persons are protected
against risks, including HCAI through the provision of appropriate care and
environmental facilities.
- Contribute effectively as a member of the Board of Directors.
- Build and foster high level progressive working
relationships with external bodies.
Person Specification
Personal Competencies
Essential
- Committed to the values of excellent patient care, continuous improvement, and teamwork.
- Collaborative and able to bring people together.
- Supportive and approachable
- Highly motivated and able to work autonomously.
- Resilient.
Qualifications
Essential
- Able to demonstrate working at masters level.
- Continuous professional development.
Desirable
- Formal training in leadership and management
- Registered practitioner
Experience
Essential
- Significant senior operational management experience in a health care setting.
- Leading a multi-disciplinary team.
- Development and delivery of clinical service improvement.
- Development and delivery of business plans.
- Managing corporate and individual performance.
- Leading and managing change.
Desirable
- Experience as a member of a senior management team
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Clinical and corporate governance arrangements.
- Financial and business management.
- Able to communicate effectively with people at all levels, including complex information to a lay audience.
- Excellent analytical/critical reasoning skills.
- Coaching skills.
- Influencing skills.
- Willing and able to challenge.
- Understanding of the NHS and health care commissioning.
Person Specification
Personal Competencies
Essential
- Committed to the values of excellent patient care, continuous improvement, and teamwork.
- Collaborative and able to bring people together.
- Supportive and approachable
- Highly motivated and able to work autonomously.
- Resilient.
Qualifications
Essential
- Able to demonstrate working at masters level.
- Continuous professional development.
Desirable
- Formal training in leadership and management
- Registered practitioner
Experience
Essential
- Significant senior operational management experience in a health care setting.
- Leading a multi-disciplinary team.
- Development and delivery of clinical service improvement.
- Development and delivery of business plans.
- Managing corporate and individual performance.
- Leading and managing change.
Desirable
- Experience as a member of a senior management team
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Clinical and corporate governance arrangements.
- Financial and business management.
- Able to communicate effectively with people at all levels, including complex information to a lay audience.
- Excellent analytical/critical reasoning skills.
- Coaching skills.
- Influencing skills.
- Willing and able to challenge.
- Understanding of the NHS and health care commissioning.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
