Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Networked Services Division to join us as the Divisional Nursing Director.
- Do you exude our values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence?
- Are you an inspirational, engaging, and inclusive nursing leader who is committed and passionate about making a difference in developing and nurturing the nursing and AHP workforce to ensure optimum service delivery to our patients?
If so, you could be the exceptional individual we are looking for to join our high performing Divisional Management Team
As Divisional Nursing Director, you will be the operational clinical lead for the nursing workforce in the Division. You will lead the Division's clinical governance functions, championing quality and safety and working closely with the Divisional Medical Director and Divisional Director in the leadership of Divisional Strategy.
In this role you will also be part of the corporate nursing leadership for the Trust taking on key Trustwide responsibilities on behalf of the Executive Chief Nurse.
This role will deputise in the absence of the Deputy Director of Nursing and will be required to participate in an on call rota
Main duties of the job
Working closely with the Divisional Director, Associate Medical Director and Executive Chief Nurse you will be accountable for providing a high level of professional, operational and transformational leadership across the Division and wider Trust. You will have operational accountability for the Division's nursing workforce.
As a highly experienced and credible senior nurse, you will be responsible for driving excellent professional standards and leading improvements to deliver high standards of care whilst role modelling the Trust's values.
You will provide professional nursing expertise and advice on operational and strategic management issues regarding quality and governance for the Division and across the Trust.
The Divisional Nurse Director will form part of the corporate nursing resource holding a portfolio of responsibility to be managed Trust wide reporting to the Executive Chief Nurse.
- To support the Chief Nurse/Deputy Director of Nursing in the delivery of the Trusts Nursing/Quality strategy.
- To provide managerial, operational and professional leadership to the Divisional Nursing Team.
- Responsible for the development and application of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements in the Division, which ensure full compliance with internal and external governance procedures and to the benchmark against best practice requirements.
- To be accountable for the direct delivery of safe, effective clinical care providing a high quality patient experience
About us
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's leading providers of non-surgical cancer treatment, caring for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and parts of Lancashire.
Our flagship specialist cancer hospital in Liverpool opened in June 2020, supported by our hospital on the Clatterbridge Health Park in Wirral providing outpatient cancer treatment and supportive care, and our radiotherapy treatment centre on the Aintree Hospital site.Together, working across three sites and operating specialist chemotherapy clinics in four of Merseyside's district hospitals, we are able to deliver a comprehensive range of inpatient care, advanced radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies including gene therapies and immunotherapies. We also deliver a pioneering Treatment at Home and Work service; are the only facility in the UK providing low-energy proton beam therapy to treat rare eye cancers and host the region's Teenage and Young Adult Unit, (supported by the Teenage Cancer Trust).
Working with leading experts from The University of Liverpool and the Cancer Research UK Liverpool Cancer Trials Unit we strive to stay at the forefront of novel treatments and techniques to deliver more effective and personalised treatments than ever before.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead on specific areas of work as agreed with the Divisional Director including the planning and management of projects and the implementation of change across the Trust, ensuring professional relationships are maintained and cross divisional partnerships encouraged.
- To lead the Patient Experience Agenda for the Division. Actively seek and utilise feedback from the patient experience surveys to action improvements in all aspects of the patients journey.
- To lead the implementation of the Infection, Prevention and Control Agenda for the Division, ensuring changes to practice are implemented and evaluated and to ensure that National, Regional and local standards and objectives are achieved.
- Contribute to the implementation and delivery of the Divisions governance framework by supporting and promoting the development and implementation of nursing care services that reflects the principles of robust clinical governance and the required CQC standards.
- Ensure agreed systems and processes are in place to consistently provide safe, effective and high-quality patient care and a culture of improvement focusing on the organisational quality KPIs to measure practice and variation to inform the need for improvement projects.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead on specific areas of work as agreed with the Divisional Director including the planning and management of projects and the implementation of change across the Trust, ensuring professional relationships are maintained and cross divisional partnerships encouraged.
- To lead the Patient Experience Agenda for the Division. Actively seek and utilise feedback from the patient experience surveys to action improvements in all aspects of the patients journey.
- To lead the implementation of the Infection, Prevention and Control Agenda for the Division, ensuring changes to practice are implemented and evaluated and to ensure that National, Regional and local standards and objectives are achieved.
- Contribute to the implementation and delivery of the Divisions governance framework by supporting and promoting the development and implementation of nursing care services that reflects the principles of robust clinical governance and the required CQC standards.
- Ensure agreed systems and processes are in place to consistently provide safe, effective and high-quality patient care and a culture of improvement focusing on the organisational quality KPIs to measure practice and variation to inform the need for improvement projects.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
- Masters level qualification
- Leadership Qualification
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of successfully leading and managing change resulting in innovation in practice
- Significant, varied experience in a senior nursing role including current experience of leading and managing as a senior nurse within a large / specialist trust
Knowledge and Expertise
Essential
- Experience of resource management
- Experience in workforce planning
- Evidence of developing successful clinical teams based on empathy, pride and compassion
- Evidence of leading teams at a strategic level
- Evidence of developing a culture of respect and mutual trust. Inspires others and leads by example
- Evidence of partnership and inter-agency working
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Evidence of leading on and presenting investigations demonstrating that lessons have been learnt across the organisation
- Experience in complaints management
Key Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to interpret data to support improvements in practice and service reconfiguration
- Able to articulate with advanced verbal and written skills with evidence of report writing and presentation skills
- Ability to make calm rational decisions in difficult situations
- IT/word processing skills
- Ability to communicate with colleagues and service users in an open and honest manner with dignity and respect
- Evidence in negotiating and influencing skills
- Evidence of emotional intelligence and ability to involve the wider multidisciplinary team
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
- Able to demonstrate the Trust core values and behaviours in day to day approach to work
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
- Masters level qualification
- Leadership Qualification
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of successfully leading and managing change resulting in innovation in practice
- Significant, varied experience in a senior nursing role including current experience of leading and managing as a senior nurse within a large / specialist trust
Knowledge and Expertise
Essential
- Experience of resource management
- Experience in workforce planning
- Evidence of developing successful clinical teams based on empathy, pride and compassion
- Evidence of leading teams at a strategic level
- Evidence of developing a culture of respect and mutual trust. Inspires others and leads by example
- Evidence of partnership and inter-agency working
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Evidence of leading on and presenting investigations demonstrating that lessons have been learnt across the organisation
- Experience in complaints management
Key Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to interpret data to support improvements in practice and service reconfiguration
- Able to articulate with advanced verbal and written skills with evidence of report writing and presentation skills
- Ability to make calm rational decisions in difficult situations
- IT/word processing skills
- Ability to communicate with colleagues and service users in an open and honest manner with dignity and respect
- Evidence in negotiating and influencing skills
- Evidence of emotional intelligence and ability to involve the wider multidisciplinary team
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
- Able to demonstrate the Trust core values and behaviours in day to day approach to work
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).
Additional information
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).
