Job summary
We have an
exciting and rewarding opportunity to join our Trust as Deputy Chief Nurse. Reporting
to the Chief Nurse, the Deputy Chief Nurse supports our Executive team in the
coordination and delivery of quality, safety and safeguarding across the Trust.
As Deputy Chief Nurse, you will lead the development and implementation of our
corporate Quality Strategy, and support delivery of the patient equality and
diversity agenda. The role of Deputy Chief Nurse is a crucial and pivotal role
within our leadership team and will provide support to the Chief Nurse, Trust
Board, and Divisional Management Teams regarding issues that support quality, safety,
clinical leadership and professionalism.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from underrepresented groups. In recruiting to our Trust, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We especially welcome applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage, LGBTQ+ communities, and from people with lived experience of disability.
If you would like a further discussion on the role, in the first instance please contact our executive search partner Finn McNulty at Hunter Healthcare on 07966 006091 or fmcnulty@hunter-healthcare.com.
Interview Date: 1st June 2023
Main duties of the job
The successful postholder will have significant experience in issues relating to quality, patient safety, safeguarding and clinical governance. We are looking to speak with credible and motivated Senior Nurses, with a successful track record of leading and inspiring teams. The Deputy Chief Nurse will support the Chief Nurse in providing leadership, strategic direction, advice, supervision and support to Nurses, Midwives, AHPs and Clinical Professionals throughout the Trust, ensuring that high quality clinical practice is integrated and embedded into all patient services.
About us
The Trust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients and communities and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission report published 2020 and became a University Hospital. We are ranked as the third in the country for research; embedding education and training across the organisation and we continuously strive to achieve our core values which are at the heart of everything we do. The Trusts main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, starting life as a military hospital over a century ago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast and you may have seen us on the TV series Nurses on the Ward. The Trust provides comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire. The Trust employs over 8,000 staff and are #ProudtobePHU; our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because its the right thing to do, but because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for providing outstanding care and support for patients, colleagues and our community you will find a home at PHU. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in
terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender
identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans
status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Title: Deputy Chief Nurse
Band: VSM
Reports to: Chief Nurse
PLEASE REFER TO THE ATTACHED CANDIDATE BRIEF FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Job description
Job responsibilities
Title: Deputy Chief Nurse
Band: VSM
Reports to: Chief Nurse
PLEASE REFER TO THE ATTACHED CANDIDATE BRIEF FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree, supplemented by specialist training to doctorate or equivalent level
- Post graduate qualification e.g. MSC or the equivalent applied post-graduation management learning relating to a number of disciplines
- Membership of a clinical and/or management professional body
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Previous successful management experience, at a senior level
- Proven successful track record in:
- Leading and sustaining transformational change within a complex organisation
- Developing and translating business strategy into operational delivery
- Managing operating budgets and delivering financial surplus
- Leading and performance-managing teams and individuals
- Extensive senior management experience within the NHS
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Strong customer service skills
- Judgments involving complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
- Exercise expert reasoning and professional judgment to resolve complex problems including areas such as procurement and management support, service delivery and supporting arrangements
- Highly developed leadership skills
- Ability to quickly establish effective working relationships and develop strong team working
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of clinical and corporate governance and risk management systems and processes
- Highly developed interpersonal and facilitation skills, with ability to gain and maintain credibility with senior clinicians
- Highly effective presentation skills and the ability to present well-reasoned and structured argument orally and in writing
- Highly developed analytical skills
- Proficiency in the use of ICT applications to support efficient work activity, including the analysis, interpretation and presentation of complex data
- Ability to manage priorities in order to meet specific deadlines
- Ability to hold direct and non direct reports to account
- Detailed knowledge of Clinical Quality and Safety methodologies
- Detailed knowledge of Clinical and Corporate Governance frameworks, legislation and best practice
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Tenacity: demonstrates high levels of self-belief, drive, enthusiasm and stamina to achieve goals and see things through
- Ability to motivate, inspire and provide innovative solutions
- Excellent judgement
- Ability to achieve consistently good results in an inclusive and collaborative manner
- Ability to work effectively in a complex and changing environment
- Ability to work under pressure to demanding timetables
- Understands the need to deliver short-term priorities and achieve long-term goals (sense of balance)
- High degree of political awareness
- Displays innovative and lateral thinking
- Prepared to work totally flexibly
- High degree of self-awareness
- Ability to maintain confidence, at all times
- High levels of personal integrity and loyalty
- Intellectual flexibility that enables the reasoned assessment of a situation and the ability to draw pragmatic conclusions
- Ability to broad scan to keep abreast of developments in the Health Care sector
- Ability to deal with confidential issues in a professional and sensitive manner
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree, supplemented by specialist training to doctorate or equivalent level
- Post graduate qualification e.g. MSC or the equivalent applied post-graduation management learning relating to a number of disciplines
- Membership of a clinical and/or management professional body
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Previous successful management experience, at a senior level
- Proven successful track record in:
- Leading and sustaining transformational change within a complex organisation
- Developing and translating business strategy into operational delivery
- Managing operating budgets and delivering financial surplus
- Leading and performance-managing teams and individuals
- Extensive senior management experience within the NHS
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Strong customer service skills
- Judgments involving complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
- Exercise expert reasoning and professional judgment to resolve complex problems including areas such as procurement and management support, service delivery and supporting arrangements
- Highly developed leadership skills
- Ability to quickly establish effective working relationships and develop strong team working
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of clinical and corporate governance and risk management systems and processes
- Highly developed interpersonal and facilitation skills, with ability to gain and maintain credibility with senior clinicians
- Highly effective presentation skills and the ability to present well-reasoned and structured argument orally and in writing
- Highly developed analytical skills
- Proficiency in the use of ICT applications to support efficient work activity, including the analysis, interpretation and presentation of complex data
- Ability to manage priorities in order to meet specific deadlines
- Ability to hold direct and non direct reports to account
- Detailed knowledge of Clinical Quality and Safety methodologies
- Detailed knowledge of Clinical and Corporate Governance frameworks, legislation and best practice
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Tenacity: demonstrates high levels of self-belief, drive, enthusiasm and stamina to achieve goals and see things through
- Ability to motivate, inspire and provide innovative solutions
- Excellent judgement
- Ability to achieve consistently good results in an inclusive and collaborative manner
- Ability to work effectively in a complex and changing environment
- Ability to work under pressure to demanding timetables
- Understands the need to deliver short-term priorities and achieve long-term goals (sense of balance)
- High degree of political awareness
- Displays innovative and lateral thinking
- Prepared to work totally flexibly
- High degree of self-awareness
- Ability to maintain confidence, at all times
- High levels of personal integrity and loyalty
- Intellectual flexibility that enables the reasoned assessment of a situation and the ability to draw pragmatic conclusions
- Ability to broad scan to keep abreast of developments in the Health Care sector
- Ability to deal with confidential issues in a professional and sensitive manner
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
