Head of Nursing

This is a key role, working alongside another Heads of Nursing, the Divisional Director of Nursing and alongside the broader multi-disciplinary team, you will provide high quality strategic, professional, operational, and visible nursing leadership, advising and supporting on directorate nursing issues. We are keen to engage someone with the experience and drive to deliver high quality care and an appreciation of the value of respect and of multidisciplinary teamwork. The Head of Nursing will be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the Care Group nursing staff and for the delivery of consistently reliable high quality nursing standards. This is a key role within the senior Nursing leadership team which supports the continuous development of the workforce to deliver high quality care and fundamental nursing standards, ensuring it is safe, effective and person centered treating all patients, their families and their carers with dignity and respect.

The role is focused on delivering the best outcomes and experience of care for our patients, ensuring that the nursing teams are developed, competent and supported to deliver the highest standards of care and professionalism As part of the Care Group triumvirate, you will provide strong, visible, professional leadership, focusing on the delivery of care throughout the Division. You will be accountable for a range of services ensuring they are flexible and responsive. The Head of Nursing will support the Divisional Director of Nursing in the local development and implementation of the Divisional managerial and strategic objectives ensuring safe, effective and appropriate care delivery The Head of Nursing will support the Divisional Director of Nursing the development and implantation of the Trusts Quality and Nursing Strategy, ensuring robust action plans are in place leading to improvements in care and enabling shared learning across the Division. Support the regular reviewof services within the Care Group and Division; in line with informed opinions, information from patients, the changing needs of the patients accessing the service, the organisational aims and objectives and local regional and national evidence based guidance.

In partnership with the General Manager and Clinical Director jointly develop servicestrategies, ensure delivery and foster positive partnerships across the organisationand other NHS Organisations Lead, manage and motivate staff within the Care Group, ensuring appropriate management and delegation structures, policies and practices are in place to achieve high levels of performance in meeting objectives. Ensure that responsibility for achievement of constitutional targets is well known, and management of sub-optimal performance is managed and appropriately escalated. Contribute to the effective management of human, financial and physical resources within the Care Group. Provide leadership on professional issues within the Care Group and ensure related issues from professional bodies are disseminated through to the Care Group.

Set, monitor, implement and maintain standards of clinical practice and patient care through a range of quality improvement and measurement activities that include clinical practice benchmarking, clinical audit, patient satisfaction, performance review and professional accountability