Head of Nursing

As Head of Nursing, you will be a highly visible presence accountable to the Chief Nurse and CMG Clinical Director. Your focus will be to ensure the provision of high quality, evidence based, responsive services that hold the needs of the patient at the centre of care delivery.

The successful post-holder will be essential to supporting and delivering these complex, large-scale projects. They will be supported by a closely-knit Senior Management Team with a good track record of team-working and peer support. The SMT place huge importance on a strong Triumvirate, which we believe is vital to delivering high quality care and are keen to promote this at Matron, Head of Service and General Manager level also.
You will need to be an inspiring and motivated nurse, committed to the delivery of high standards of compassionate care and with the ability to challenge and influence practice. You will be a champion of all registered healthcare professionals and challenge the status quo of healthcare delivery.

You will need to have experience of leading nursing and clinical services as well as a proven track record putting safety, quality and patient experience at the heart of all you do.

The Head of Nursing for the Clinical Management Group (CMG) is managerially and professionally accountable for the leadership and clinical effectiveness of all nurses across a variety of clinical settings within the CMG. To provide effective clinical and professional leadership in ensuring that the nursing and midwifery agenda is clearly part of the CMG
decision making, service developments and contributes to both the local CMG and Trust strategic objectives including quality initiatives and targets.

See Supporting Documents for a more detailed job description and person specification.

We are one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the country, incorporating the General, Glenfield and Royal Infirmary hospitals. We have our very own Children’s Hospital and run one of the country’s leading heart centres.

Our team is made up of more than 17,000 staff providing a range of services primarily for the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We work with partners at the University of Leicester and De Montfort University providing world-class teaching to nurture and develop the next generation of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, many of whom go on to spend their working lives with us.

Our purpose is to provide ‘Caring at its best’ and our staff have helped us create a set of values that embody who we are and what we’re here to do. They are:

- We focus on what matters most
- We treat others how we would like to be treated
- We are passionate and creative in our work
- We do what we say we are going to do
- We are one team and we are best when we work together

Our patients are at the heart of all we do and we believe that ‘Caring at its best’ is not just about the treatments and services we provide, but about giving our patients the best possible experience.

**About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust**: (leicestershospitals.nhs.uk)

Communications

Develop and maintain communication with people on complex matters and highly complex matters regarding issues and ideas and/or in complex situations. This requires imparting sensitive information to staff and patients showing empathy when communicating.

Network closely with clinical leaders within the CMG across CMG’s, corporately and externally

Contribute to strategy formation and organisational decisions and interpret and explain these to a varied audience e.g. on changes to service model or re-direction of services to different sites etc.
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Head of Operations
Clinical Director
- Chief Nurse
- Deputy Chief Nurse
- Deputy Head of Nursing
- Heads of service
- General managers
- Clinical Management Teams
- Matrons
- CNS/ANP
- Patient Partner’s
- HR Business Partners
- Corporate Risk and Complaints teams
- Ward/Department Sisters and Charge Nurses
- Allied Health Professionals
- DeMontfort University, University of Leicester and other academic partners.

KEY RESULT AREAS
1. PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
- At all times work in accordance with the NMC The Code, Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives (2015)
- Responsible for the professional leadership of nursing services within the CMG, including devising, implementing and reviewing strategies for the development of clinical practice, education, and management and quality issues;
- Provide clear clinical leadership ensuring that all Professional staff are appropriately managed and developed and that they are therefore efficient, engaged, and highly motivated;
- Coach deputies, matrons/sisters and charge nurses in management and delivery(e.g., how to optimise use of resources against acuity models, effectivePractice development);
Provide leadership and direction to the deputies and matrons, ensure that nursing
- staff