Chief Nurse

Job summary

We are looking for a new Chief Nurse to join our Board team and enable our committed colleagues to deliver ambitious goals. This opportunity represents an outstanding clinical leadership role for a talented and inclusive board director to provide strategic leadership to nurses and midwives and Allied Health Professionals.

In joining our executive team, you will have the opportunity to support our vision and make a tangible difference to our patient population. We are an ambitious organisation, and as we continue our improvement journey to ensure the future success of the organisation, we will require an outstanding Chief Nurse to inspire staff to deliver the highest levels of nursing and midwifery standards. You will play a major system role across our ICS, developing strategic partnerships, contributing to the configuration of our community services model, embracing and working collaboratively across the local health, mental health and social care system, demonstrating a genuine commitment to patients, the promotion of excellent healthcare, and reduction of health inequalities.

Main duties of the job

To help us meet these objectives, we would like to appoint a Chief Nurse who can play a key role in the Trust, Integrated Care System and the local 'place'. Whether you have operated at Director level previously or are looking to assume your first Chief Nurse post from a sub-board role at a major provider, as our successful candidate you have a significant leadership track record within a complex healthcare setting and must have demonstrable commitment to putting patients first, have a vision for innovative clinical service delivery and be a genuine role model for our clinical workforce. You will also demonstrate the inclusive leadership abilities needed to develop a high quality working environment, embedding our values in every aspect of our organisation's work.

In joining our Trust at this critical juncture, you will have the opportunity to work alongside a strong, capable, ambitious and committed executive team and Board of Directors, and will be instrumental in shaping and delivering real sustainable innovation and improvement in the delivery of our services. We are seeking to increase the diversity of our Board to make it truly representative of our workforce and local population. We would particularly welcome applications from people that are from groups which are under-represented at Board level.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bringwhat's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse or Midwife Masters Degree or Equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

Currently/recently operating at or reporting to Board level in an Acute NHS Trust, or operating at site CNO level in a Group model Significant senior nursing/midwifery experience in the NHS Experience of successfully leading and managing a diverse team Experience of large scale budget and workforce management

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