Job summary
Job Title: Head of Nursing for Urgent and Emergency Care
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Closing Date: 11th October 2024
Interview Date: 23rd October 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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Main duties of the job
Lead on and implement the nursing quality agenda.
Lead a team of Matrons within the Urgent and Emergency Care Unit.
You will form part of the Urgent and Emergency Care Units Triumvirate delivering service development, business planning ensuring achievements in key local and national targets.
You will be directly involved in embedding a positive culture and driving improvements within the Urgent and Emergency Care Unit.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide leadership to Matrons, Unit Managers, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Emergency Nurse Practitioners within the Directorate and work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary teams across the Trust.
Provide direct line management, clinical, professional leadership to the Matrons within the Directorate, ensuring nursing care is delivered to a high standard.
Maintain clinical credibility through clinical practice.
Take part in the Senior Nurse Rota.
Please note that this list is not exhaustive, for more information please find that the full details can be found in the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide leadership to Matrons, Unit Managers, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Emergency Nurse Practitioners within the Directorate and work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary teams across the Trust.
Provide direct line management, clinical, professional leadership to the Matrons within the Directorate, ensuring nursing care is delivered to a high standard.
Maintain clinical credibility through clinical practice.
Take part in the Senior Nurse Rota.
Please note that this list is not exhaustive, for more information please find that the full details can be found in the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of recent relevant continual professional development
- Significant experience at Matron/Clinical Lead level
- Expert and up to date knowledge and understanding of the key
- Experience of managing a budget
- Knowledge and experience of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements
- Experience of nurse leadership and operational management
- Experience working in a team environment
- Broad range of clinical experience
Qualifications and Professional Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse (1st Level)
- Educated to degree level
- Teaching Qualification (7307, 998 or Mentoring and Assessing)
- Educated to Masters level or working towards completion of Masters programme or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Leadership/Management Qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate the ability to facilitate and present to groups
- Excellent communication skills and highly developed interpersonal and influencing skills
- Must be able to demonstrate use of IT skills
- Open, participative, dynamic and supportive leadership with a flexible management style
- Must be able to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department
- Must have a good understanding of both primary and secondary care and the aims and priorities of the NHS
- Ability to organise diverse teams to deliver high standard quality patient care
- Proven ability of complex case management
- Multi-disciplinary team working across health, social and voluntary sectors
- To prepare written reports and contribute to business planning and service delivery
- Experience in motivating staff and improving individuals and team performance
Desirable
- Must have an understanding and appreciation of service redesign and agenda
- Evidence of having led clinical audit
- Ability to analyse complex and diverse local data in order to identify trends in order to demonstrate changes that will be required to be undertaken
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to manage a team
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to influence and persuade
- Ability to be self-motivated
- Be a positive role model with the ability to demonstrate a credible, professional approach and manner at all times
- Good organisational skills
Other
Essential
- Must be willing to participate in the Manager On-call Rota
- Has an independent means of transport
- Must be a non-smoker during working hours
- Must be willing to undertake Criminal Records Bureau disclosure to Enhanced/Standard level
- Must be legally entitled to work in this country
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of recent relevant continual professional development
- Significant experience at Matron/Clinical Lead level
- Expert and up to date knowledge and understanding of the key
- Experience of managing a budget
- Knowledge and experience of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements
- Experience of nurse leadership and operational management
- Experience working in a team environment
- Broad range of clinical experience
Qualifications and Professional Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse (1st Level)
- Educated to degree level
- Teaching Qualification (7307, 998 or Mentoring and Assessing)
- Educated to Masters level or working towards completion of Masters programme or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Leadership/Management Qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate the ability to facilitate and present to groups
- Excellent communication skills and highly developed interpersonal and influencing skills
- Must be able to demonstrate use of IT skills
- Open, participative, dynamic and supportive leadership with a flexible management style
- Must be able to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department
- Must have a good understanding of both primary and secondary care and the aims and priorities of the NHS
- Ability to organise diverse teams to deliver high standard quality patient care
- Proven ability of complex case management
- Multi-disciplinary team working across health, social and voluntary sectors
- To prepare written reports and contribute to business planning and service delivery
- Experience in motivating staff and improving individuals and team performance
Desirable
- Must have an understanding and appreciation of service redesign and agenda
- Evidence of having led clinical audit
- Ability to analyse complex and diverse local data in order to identify trends in order to demonstrate changes that will be required to be undertaken
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to manage a team
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to influence and persuade
- Ability to be self-motivated
- Be a positive role model with the ability to demonstrate a credible, professional approach and manner at all times
- Good organisational skills
Other
Essential
- Must be willing to participate in the Manager On-call Rota
- Has an independent means of transport
- Must be a non-smoker during working hours
- Must be willing to undertake Criminal Records Bureau disclosure to Enhanced/Standard level
- Must be legally entitled to work in this country
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).
