Job summary
This is a key leadership role within the Institute of Care Excellence, supporting and enabling the Institute Clinical Lead for Quality, Innovation and Transformation in relation to local accreditation and care excellence standards; including relevant national/international accreditation programmes. The post holder is responsible for the development of systems and policies supporting nursing and midwifery care excellence across the Trust and within the Institute for Care Excellence. This includes initiating and developing a long term strategy for care excellence aligned with ANCC programmes
Main duties of the job
Specifically the remit involves:
Planning, conducting and supporting high quality clinical improvements and innovations, ensuring alignment with reporting standards for ANCC accreditation programmes and driving the local accreditation programmes.
Providing expertise in design, development, analysis, and dissemination of new knowledge and the use of evidence to guide and support clinical practice.
Advising Divisional Nurses and their teams to deliver an integrated excellence in care strategy for their Division.
Working collaboratively, autonomously, and with authority arising from the use of knowledge and skills, to deliver, shape and develop scientific nursing and midwifery research across organisational, geographical and professional boundaries.
Acting as a catalyst of change for practice and service development, challenging and redefining professional and organisational boundaries.
About us
With over 20,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Specifically the remit involves:
Planning, conducting and supporting high quality clinical improvements and innovations, ensuring alignment with reporting standards for ANCC accreditation programmes and driving the local accreditation programmes.
Providing expertise in design, development, analysis, and dissemination of new knowledge and the use of evidence to guide and support clinical practice.
Advising Divisional Nurses and their teams to deliver an integrated excellence in care strategy for their Division.
Working collaboratively, autonomously, and with authority arising from the use of knowledge and skills, to deliver, shape and develop scientific nursing and midwifery research across organisational, geographical and professional boundaries.
Acting as a catalyst of change for practice and service development, challenging and redefining professional and organisational boundaries.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Specifically the remit involves:
Planning, conducting and supporting high quality clinical improvements and innovations, ensuring alignment with reporting standards for ANCC accreditation programmes and driving the local accreditation programmes.
Providing expertise in design, development, analysis, and dissemination of new knowledge and the use of evidence to guide and support clinical practice.
Advising Divisional Nurses and their teams to deliver an integrated excellence in care strategy for their Division.
Working collaboratively, autonomously, and with authority arising from the use of knowledge and skills, to deliver, shape and develop scientific nursing and midwifery research across organisational, geographical and professional boundaries.
Acting as a catalyst of change for practice and service development, challenging and redefining professional and organisational boundaries.
Person Specification
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's behavioural standards
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered nurse or dual qualified nurse/midwife.
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing or closely health related degree.
- Evidence of completed Masters level training.
- Additional related clinical specialist qualification.
Desirable
- Post graduate teaching and assessing qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Recent experience at a senior level including project management, change management and multidisciplinary working.
- In-depth understanding and experience of Local Accreditation, ANCC Magnet/Pathway to Excellence Accreditation programmes
- Experience of leading and managing large improvement projects/study.
- Evidence of having achieved challenging organisational targets.
- Experience of leading projects in a complex organisation.
- Experience and understanding of key nursing and midwifery objectives and how research and education links to the Nursing and Midwifery strategic plan
- Experience of teaching, developing and facilitating innovation programmes to the inter-professional team across health and social care settings.
- Evidence of current clinical practice in a range of acute care settings
- Evidence of presenting to national/ international audiences.
Desirable
- Evidence of leading projects across health and social care settings /clinical practice, teaching and research
Communication and Relationship skills
Essential
- Excellent communications skills (written and oral) to the multi-professional team at a variety of levels.
- Ability to lead and build successful teams and ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver challenging targets.
- Able to influence the direction and decisions of Nursing and Midwifery services, Trust and external audiences as required including Higher Education Institutions and commissioning organisations.
- Ability to present highly complex data to a variety of audiences.
- Good negotiating skills. Ability to manage conflict
Desirable
- Peer reviewed publications.
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential
- Excellent problem solving skills using internal and external sources of expertise when appropriate.
- Business focused. Sensitive to clinical and political demands.
- Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change. Evidence of an ability to analyse, interpret and present complex, multi-stranded data in appropriate forms
- Ability to think laterally, identify and evaluate options for education, training and research programmes in delivering the aims of the Institute for Nursing and Midwifery Care Excellence , Trust and the wider health and social care community,.
- Develop and present workable solutions to complex service and research and innovation issues taking into account internal and external political environments.
- Presents plans supported by reasoned argument and evidence.
Planning and organisation skills
Essential
- Excellent organisation skills. Ability to sustain high workload through times of service and organisational pressure
- Ability to chair and/or participate actively in meetings, seminars and conferences.
- Performance management skills and techniques to enable accurate real-time progress
- Ability to diagnose and take remedial action where excellence programmes are slipping from their targets.
Desirable
- Experience of supporting ANCC Magnet/Pathway to Excellence submissions.
Physical skills
Essential
- Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information systems.
- Able to undertake clinical duties as required by a registered nurse or midwife within NUH
- Able to work flexibly across campuses and different locations as required.
Person Specification
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's behavioural standards
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered nurse or dual qualified nurse/midwife.
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing or closely health related degree.
- Evidence of completed Masters level training.
- Additional related clinical specialist qualification.
Desirable
- Post graduate teaching and assessing qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Recent experience at a senior level including project management, change management and multidisciplinary working.
- In-depth understanding and experience of Local Accreditation, ANCC Magnet/Pathway to Excellence Accreditation programmes
- Experience of leading and managing large improvement projects/study.
- Evidence of having achieved challenging organisational targets.
- Experience of leading projects in a complex organisation.
- Experience and understanding of key nursing and midwifery objectives and how research and education links to the Nursing and Midwifery strategic plan
- Experience of teaching, developing and facilitating innovation programmes to the inter-professional team across health and social care settings.
- Evidence of current clinical practice in a range of acute care settings
- Evidence of presenting to national/ international audiences.
Desirable
- Evidence of leading projects across health and social care settings /clinical practice, teaching and research
Communication and Relationship skills
Essential
- Excellent communications skills (written and oral) to the multi-professional team at a variety of levels.
- Ability to lead and build successful teams and ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver challenging targets.
- Able to influence the direction and decisions of Nursing and Midwifery services, Trust and external audiences as required including Higher Education Institutions and commissioning organisations.
- Ability to present highly complex data to a variety of audiences.
- Good negotiating skills. Ability to manage conflict
Desirable
- Peer reviewed publications.
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential
- Excellent problem solving skills using internal and external sources of expertise when appropriate.
- Business focused. Sensitive to clinical and political demands.
- Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change. Evidence of an ability to analyse, interpret and present complex, multi-stranded data in appropriate forms
- Ability to think laterally, identify and evaluate options for education, training and research programmes in delivering the aims of the Institute for Nursing and Midwifery Care Excellence , Trust and the wider health and social care community,.
- Develop and present workable solutions to complex service and research and innovation issues taking into account internal and external political environments.
- Presents plans supported by reasoned argument and evidence.
Planning and organisation skills
Essential
- Excellent organisation skills. Ability to sustain high workload through times of service and organisational pressure
- Ability to chair and/or participate actively in meetings, seminars and conferences.
- Performance management skills and techniques to enable accurate real-time progress
- Ability to diagnose and take remedial action where excellence programmes are slipping from their targets.
Desirable
- Experience of supporting ANCC Magnet/Pathway to Excellence submissions.
Physical skills
Essential
- Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information systems.
- Able to undertake clinical duties as required by a registered nurse or midwife within NUH
- Able to work flexibly across campuses and different locations as required.
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
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).