Job summary
Lead Nurse / Deputy Associate Director of Nursing - Emergency and Integrated Medicine Integrated Care Service Unit (ICSU)
Whittington Health has an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to join the senior nursing leadership team of the Emergency and Integrated Medicine (EIM) ICSU.
Emergency and Integrated Medicine covers the Emergency Department and Ambulatory Care Services, the Acute Assessment Unit, six medical wards, Endoscopy Services, all medical specialities, the Clinical Site Team, Palliative Care services, TB Community Services and hospital therapy services.
Main duties of the job
Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way welook after our staff.
We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.
The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES
Clinical and Professional Leadership
- Ensure that, as a group the nursing services successfully contribute to the Trusts clinical strategy
- Ensure that the services have appropriate mission statements and objectives in line with this and that the ICARE values are incorporated into the work of all teams and individuals.
- To provide guidance, support and professional leadership to all nursing staff in their clinical areas with regards to service provision.
- To act as a positive role model though the provision of effective professional leadership for relevant clinical areas, maintaining high visibility through undertaking activities such as clinical practice or observations of care.
- To be highly visible, approachable and to be available to respond to patients, relatives, carers and staff, maintaining open and honest communication channels.
- To monitor clinical standards, evaluate patient care, ensuring practice is evidence based and that clinical guidelines and care pathways are developed and implemented.
- To identify and deal effectively with poor practice or declining standards of care.
- To report concerns regarding quality or professional practice. NB: Quality includes safety, effectiveness and patient experience.
- Ensure staff understand their role and contribution to patient safety in relation to infection prevention and control and have knowledge and competencies to ensure optimal care delivery by setting clear objectives, ensuring good links with clinical areas to ensure promotion of best practice.
- To encourage communication with patients, visitors and staff and through observations of practice and monitoring of standards ensure the maintenance of an optimal environment for patient care
- Engage with appropriate agencies as a nursing leader in the development of innovative nursing and AHP strategy
- To deputise for the Associate Director of Nursing in their absence on both ad hoc and planned basis
- To deliver the outcomes necessary for Peer Review to ensure the quality and safety of care as well as optimising the patient experience throughout the patient journey. To work closely with the Patient Experience Team to implement systems to monitor clinical standards ensuring high standards of care, that are evidence based and integral to service delivery , involving patients and others in developing and enhancing services. To ensure there are mechanisms in place to ensure National performance measures are achieved in their clinical areas (such as infection control targets and peer review measures)Take part in management on call rota.
Job description
Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES
Clinical and Professional Leadership
- Ensure that, as a group the nursing services successfully contribute to the Trusts clinical strategy
- Ensure that the services have appropriate mission statements and objectives in line with this and that the ICARE values are incorporated into the work of all teams and individuals.
- To provide guidance, support and professional leadership to all nursing staff in their clinical areas with regards to service provision.
- To act as a positive role model though the provision of effective professional leadership for relevant clinical areas, maintaining high visibility through undertaking activities such as clinical practice or observations of care.
- To be highly visible, approachable and to be available to respond to patients, relatives, carers and staff, maintaining open and honest communication channels.
- To monitor clinical standards, evaluate patient care, ensuring practice is evidence based and that clinical guidelines and care pathways are developed and implemented.
- To identify and deal effectively with poor practice or declining standards of care.
- To report concerns regarding quality or professional practice. NB: Quality includes safety, effectiveness and patient experience.
- Ensure staff understand their role and contribution to patient safety in relation to infection prevention and control and have knowledge and competencies to ensure optimal care delivery by setting clear objectives, ensuring good links with clinical areas to ensure promotion of best practice.
- To encourage communication with patients, visitors and staff and through observations of practice and monitoring of standards ensure the maintenance of an optimal environment for patient care
- Engage with appropriate agencies as a nursing leader in the development of innovative nursing and AHP strategy
- To deputise for the Associate Director of Nursing in their absence on both ad hoc and planned basis
- To deliver the outcomes necessary for Peer Review to ensure the quality and safety of care as well as optimising the patient experience throughout the patient journey. To work closely with the Patient Experience Team to implement systems to monitor clinical standards ensuring high standards of care, that are evidence based and integral to service delivery , involving patients and others in developing and enhancing services. To ensure there are mechanisms in place to ensure National performance measures are achieved in their clinical areas (such as infection control targets and peer review measures)Take part in management on call rota.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- NMC Registration
- Masters Degree level qualification or relevant experience
- Evidence of training in management processes and other HR issues
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of significant management experience, communicating at all levels of the organisation
- Budgetary management experience and understanding of the current NHS financial regime
- Experience of staff management including: managing recruitment, performance monitoring, and appraisal, induction and mentoring
- Experience of system leadership
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of key Govt. legislation, national guidance / drivers relating to the ICSU
- Knowledge of a wide range of staff management practices including: IPR, Disciplinary process, Recruitment, performance, redeployment and absence management
- Comprehensive understanding of clinical risk and clinical governance principles and their application
Skills
Essential
- High-level interpersonal skills.
- Ability to write reports and papers
- Computer literate
- Analytical skills in relation to client, organisational and staffing issues
- Ability to manage stressful situations
- Ability to communicate information to senior colleagues in multi-disciplinary and multiagency fora
- Ability to motivate and lead teams of staff
Aptitude and Dispsotion
Essential
- Commitment to working jointly with users, practitioners and other agencies to develop high quality services.
- Flexibility and enthusiasm for working within a changing environment
- Sense of humour with the motivation required for delivery of targets and priorities
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- NMC Registration
- Masters Degree level qualification or relevant experience
- Evidence of training in management processes and other HR issues
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of significant management experience, communicating at all levels of the organisation
- Budgetary management experience and understanding of the current NHS financial regime
- Experience of staff management including: managing recruitment, performance monitoring, and appraisal, induction and mentoring
- Experience of system leadership
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of key Govt. legislation, national guidance / drivers relating to the ICSU
- Knowledge of a wide range of staff management practices including: IPR, Disciplinary process, Recruitment, performance, redeployment and absence management
- Comprehensive understanding of clinical risk and clinical governance principles and their application
Skills
Essential
- High-level interpersonal skills.
- Ability to write reports and papers
- Computer literate
- Analytical skills in relation to client, organisational and staffing issues
- Ability to manage stressful situations
- Ability to communicate information to senior colleagues in multi-disciplinary and multiagency fora
- Ability to motivate and lead teams of staff
Aptitude and Dispsotion
Essential
- Commitment to working jointly with users, practitioners and other agencies to develop high quality services.
- Flexibility and enthusiasm for working within a changing environment
- Sense of humour with the motivation required for delivery of targets and priorities
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).
