Director of Nursing

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role Purpose

To lead the development and delivery of the organisations nursing strategy, ensuring excellent standards of care are delivered across all services.

To operate effectively as part of Vias multidisciplinary senior leadership team, role modelling collaborative, solution focused and innovative approaches to current, new and emerging challenges.

Key duties and activities of the role

To provide expert, experienced, and dynamic nurse leadership across the organisation. To include guidance, advice, clinical decision-making and support to nurses, independent prescribers and to wider clinical and non-clinical colleagues.

To deliver strategic vision, clarity of purpose and clinically safe, cost-effective care as part of a broader multi-disciplinary clinical and operational leadership team. To demonstrate and deliver on our commitment to coproduction and service user engagement within this.

To take the lead on infection prevention and control.

To support excellence against regulatory standards (e.g. care quality commission), delivering against the clinical governance agenda and working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve excellent standards of care and outcomes.

To take accountability for the nurse workforce and to identify and deliver opportunities that establish Via as an employer of choice, where nurses want to train, develop and specialise.

To work collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholders across multi-disciplinary teams to deliver on Vias strategic and business plans.

To ensure adherence with all Via policies and Safeguarding principles as well as ensuring service delivery meets CQC, NMC and RCN requirements and standards.

To lead on the recruitment, selection, and development of nurses, ensuring line management and clinical supervision are in place, training and encouraging an inspirational and motivating learning environment for all staff.

To lead on and support relevant external strategic and service delivery partnerships and represent Via at external events, meetings and external influencing activity.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Passion for and knowledge of substance misuse services and other socially excluded or vulnerable groups.
• Experience of leadership and management, including managing recruitment, performance monitoring and appraisal, induction and mentoring.
• Demonstrable commitment to working in partnership with other professionals such as NHS Trusts and CMHT, primary care providers, Criminal Justice System, community groups, housing providers and sexual health services. Experience of developing strong integrated pathways which support the achievement of good outcomes for service users.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines, record information accurately in a timely way and to work calmly under pressure.
• Experience of achieving and maintaining exceptional performance against KPIs and evidence of understanding of audit frameworks and guidance relating to drug and alcohol services (particularly CQC).
• Great team working, communication and interpersonal skills. Demonstrating a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues and the whole team to deliver objectives.
• Excellent IT skills including use of Microsoft Office programs and digital meeting platforms and Case Management Systems like Nebula, System One or Theseus.
• Understanding of and ability to apply excellent Safeguarding and risk management practices and a demonstrable understanding of the Health and Social Care regulatory requirements of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), National Institute for Clinical Excellence standards for Health and Social Care and the GDPR confidentiality and privacy regulations.

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC/HCPC Registration.
• Degree in Nursing/Health related subject.
• Master's level qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development relevant to this role.
• Level 5 Qualification in Leadership and management. Or the ability and commitment to complete this during time in post.
• Nurse Independent Prescriber Qualification.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Via

Address

18 Dartmouth Street

London

SW1H 9BL

Employer's website

https://via.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/vacancy (Opens in a new tab)