Head of Nursing

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Head of Nursing & Quality (Care Groups) - Planned Care Division who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Planned Care Division is looking for an individual to join the senior nursing team in a permanent position, to support a number of clinical services within the division, due to the successful promotion of the present post-holder.

We are currently progressing to a clinical leadership model of leadership across the organisation and this position will be responsible for leading a care group alongside an operational and medical colleague, with the support of the Divisional director of Nursing and Quality.

The successful candidate will need to be a registered professional with the ability to provide strong professional clinical leadership, experience of quality care provision and oversight and an understanding of finance, Hr processes and clinical governance.

They will support the Divisional Director of Nursing and be a key member of the Senior Management Team across the Division. The post holder will support the Divisional Director of Nursing to continually improve patient care, experience and assist with the implementation of National and Trust initiatives.

Our Trust Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that as a leader your style and behaviours match these and are role modelled within your natural leadership style.

Main duties of the job

This exciting position will be integral to ensuring continued safe and successful services within the planned care division.

As the Head of Nursing and Quality, you will make a real difference to patient care and pathways. As a subject matter expert and specialist, you will provide visible professional leadership and demonstrate a strong commitment to support the team in the delivery of both the nursing and trust strategy.

You will support the teams in the transformation agenda in redesigning models of care and patient pathways to provide the best possible care and outcome for our patients.

Provide day to day operational management of nursing clinical services, liaising effectively with all internal and external stakeholders, ensuring that service planning and operational activity satisfy the requirements of governance.

On a day to day basis, you will have professional line management, supervision responsibilities and over sight of the well being of Matrons, Clinical nurse Specialist and other healthcare professionals and their teams ensuring support, professional growth and leadership development are provided for all the staff.

You will provide reports for the Divisional Director of Nursing & Quality for use internally or externally to the Division. These reports are expected to include highly sensitive, complex and at times contentious information related to the clinical activities of the Division.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specificationQualifications/TrainingEssential criteria

• Registered Nurse Degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Effective nursing registration – RN or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• Master’s level qualification/ working towards or equivalent experience

Previous ExperienceEssential criteria

• Extensive experience in Senior Nursing position
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Specific management and/or leadership training
• Experience of managing people
• Experience of managing change and associated behaviors
• Experience of developing policies and procedures
• Evidence of outcomes from application of professional leadership
• Evidence of clinical leadership regarding multiple clinical professions
• Evidence of managing a team
• Evidence of chairing and managing meetings

Desirable criteria

• Experience of managing resources including financial resources
• Proven record of leading change and innovation
• Experience of managing teams across specialties and multi-disciplinary team members including AHP’s

SkillsEssential criteria

• Proven record of accomplishment of achieving objectives
• Excellent clinical and clinical leadership skills
• Excellent organisational and leadership skills
• Ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences, verbally and in written reports
• Ability to use IT, including Microsoft Office and Power Point
• Able to work within a multi - professional team
• Flexibility – adapts to ensure achievement of objectives within changing environment
• Able to work collaboratively with partner organisations
• Ability to present complex data to different audiences with different information needs
• Ability to manage conflict
• Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change
• Proven record of accomplishment of performance management

KnowledgeEssential criteria

• Knowledge of developments in renal services from a national and local perspective, including ICP / STP’s
• Knowledge of DoH Policies and professional guidelines in children and young people’s care
• Knowledge and experience of change management
• Knowledge and experience of risk management issues

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of NHS Finance

Other requirementsEssential criteria

• Ability to work under pressure and within set timescales
• Ability to engage and motivate staff to deliver targets
• Self-motivated and able to work autonomously
• Adaptability
• Flexible approach to work
• Ability to withstand pressure of work, frequent interruptions, demanding conflicting priorities and to respond effectively to these
• Ability to deal with sensitive information
• Has sense of humour and understands when to use it to relieve stress and pressure within a team or situations

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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