Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality

4 weeks ago

Wakefield, United Kingdom Spectrum Community Health CIC Full time

Job summary

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join Spectrum as a new Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality. You will be an enthusiastic, experienced and focused Registered Nurse who has held position as a senior nurse with a strong track record of delivering high quality standards of professional practice across multiple services.

The post is vacant due to internal promotion and is an ideal opportunity for an aspiring Director of Nursing to make an impact by supporting the delivery of an organisational objective to deliver excellence in care. You will provide highly visible motivational senior leadership and management to the nursing and allied health professional workforce.

The ability to build strong relationships with all stakeholders and to be an ambassador for Spectrum is essential to the success of this role. Patients and staff with lived experience are vital to ensure that we deliver the services that are safe, caring and effective.

Applicants should have held senior nursing leadership roles delivering high quality, patient-centred care. You must be able to demonstrate in your application how you meet the essential criteria as only candidates who demonstrate this will be shortlisted. You will need to be comfortable being visible, accessible and be a compassionate leader who role models the values for all Spectrum staff.

Main duties of the job

You will act as the Deputy to the Director of Nursing and Quality, across the full range of duties with the specific responsibility to ensure the responsive day to day delivery of safe, effective and compassionate care. Deputising will include travel across the North Region at local, regional and national levels as required.

You will be responsible for providing strong professional leadership, be responsible for risk management, infection prevention and control, patient safety and embedding the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.

The postholder will lead the development, maintenance and improvement of systems and processes. This is to ensure robust clinical practice, clinical governance and patient safety is enhanced and embedded to meet regulatory and commissioned requirements.

Lead on quality assurance, clinical governance and patient safety agenda - including supporting the embedding of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework and delivering on the Patient Safety Incident Response Plan.

Lead the review, development and implementation of the Organisation's Nursing and Allied Health Professional Strategy/Clinical Strategy, supporting the development of strategies that promote a culture of ownership and accountability whilst encouraging innovation and staff empowerment.

About us

BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE

Join our team

We're looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.

Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we've got a role for you

Access to NHS Pension Annual leave on your Birthday Welcome payment for some posts Refer a friend scheme Training and Development opportunities Flexible Working Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes Up to 33 days annual leave

We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them.

We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people - our patients, service users, staff and partners.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Shortlisting :

Interview : to be held either in Darlington or Navigation Walk

Dates are subject to change.

For further information regarding the advertised vacancy, please see attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

oRegistered Nursing Qualification oMaster's degree or equivalent experience oAppropriate management and/or post graduate qualification

Desirable

oProfessional Nurse Advocate oCoaching and Mentoring qualification

Experience

Essential

oExtensive experience as a senior nurse leader oAble to lead and demonstrate compassionate leadership oSignificant knowledge of the quality assurance framework and Quality Improvement tools and techniques oLeading a team working in a complex system demonstrating improvements for clinical governance and meeting regulatory/ commissioned requirements

Desirable

oQuality and improvement work in a prison environment oExperience of working in more than one type of service delivered by Spectrum

Skills

Essential

oAwareness of finance and budgetary management oCan demonstrate a high level of organisational skills and ability oAbility to work within deadlines oExercise judgement involving complex facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options oComprehensive understanding of local and national policy in relation to nursing and quality

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