Job summary
This interim deputy Head of Nursing role will provide clinical and operational leadership to the Surgery Department within the STA Division, as part of a team with the STA Head of Nursing, Clinical Directors and Operational Director. A key element of the role is setting the tone and modelling collective and compassionate leadership behaviours to build positive staff engagement, and an inclusive culture to ensure that our patients experience the best and safest care. We are looking for a leader who can support teams across Surgery to build their clinical capability and confidence. We are interested, not just in your clinical excellence, but also your ability to be a visible, optimistic and compassionate leader who will develop staff by understanding their needs and aspirations.
Main duties of the job
You will play a key role in clinical governance and quality management. Close working with the STA Head of Nursing will be essential in providing cohesive nursing leadership across the whole Division.
We also want to hear from you if you are as concerned about the lack of diversity at senior nursing levels within the NHS as we are. We believe that a greater combination of difference in our teams will bring more openness, energy and discussion and will make a real difference to the experience of our diverse staff. Can you help us to make that change?
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (NMC)
- Post registration Masters degree in nursing or related field or working towards
- Substantial leadership experience across clinical areas
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development including in the area of EDI.
Desirable
- Desirable Post graduate qualification in teaching within health care.
- Emergency planning / critical incident management course (this could be HMIMMs / ALS)
Experience
Essential
- Can you show us through experience/examples from your personal and/or professional life how you:
- Have a proven track record (through feedback from peers, other colleagues and patients) that you can lead staff in a way that is compassionate and collective; in situations that can be as different as a cardiac emergency to simply giving comfort and holding a patient's hand
- Give honest and professional challenge to colleagues
- Collaborate effectively with operational and other clinical professionals to lead teams
- Have good working knowledge of clinical and quality governance with particular knowledge of assurance and risk management
- Will help us to further diversify the nursing leadership within an organisation, to improve the employment journey for staff with protected characteristics
- Adapt your leadership style as required in order to encourage innovation for staff to allow them to make the most of the opportunities offered at Royal Papworth.
- Are able to balance the administrative requirements of a role with being visible and accessible to the team
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (NMC)
- Post registration Masters degree in nursing or related field or working towards
- Substantial leadership experience across clinical areas
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development including in the area of EDI.
Desirable
- Desirable Post graduate qualification in teaching within health care.
- Emergency planning / critical incident management course (this could be HMIMMs / ALS)
Experience
Essential
- Can you show us through experience/examples from your personal and/or professional life how you:
- Have a proven track record (through feedback from peers, other colleagues and patients) that you can lead staff in a way that is compassionate and collective; in situations that can be as different as a cardiac emergency to simply giving comfort and holding a patient's hand
- Give honest and professional challenge to colleagues
- Collaborate effectively with operational and other clinical professionals to lead teams
- Have good working knowledge of clinical and quality governance with particular knowledge of assurance and risk management
- Will help us to further diversify the nursing leadership within an organisation, to improve the employment journey for staff with protected characteristics
- Adapt your leadership style as required in order to encourage innovation for staff to allow them to make the most of the opportunities offered at Royal Papworth.
- Are able to balance the administrative requirements of a role with being visible and accessible to the team
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
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).
