Deputy Chief Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

DUTIES:

1. Provide visible leadership across the Trust promoting a culture of safe Care with positive experiences for patients and carers and good clinical outcomes
2. Lead the Trust in the achievement of all Care Quality Commission fundamental standards including evidence gathering, and leading programmes of improvement work. The post holder will be responsible for providing leadership to the Nursing and Midwifery workforce in achieving CQC standards and delivering improvements across the Trust.
3. Play a significant leadership role in the delivery of the Quality Strategy and Operating Plans by ensuring appropriate programmes of work are developed and delivered.
4. Play a significant leadership role for the production, implementation and monitoring of the Quality Strategy and operating plans, with emphasis on ensuring that staff are skilled in quality Improvement methodologies to help foster a culture of continuous quality improvement within the Trust, where staff at all levels have the confidence to highlight areas for improvement, and have the skills, knowledge and support to be able to implement those improvements.
5. In conjunction with the Chief Nurse, embed the Trusts Quality Strategy, ensuring that quality priorities identified for improvements in patient safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience are informed via ward to Board integrated reporting.
6. The post holder will support the development, implementation and maintenance of Trust wide nursing policy and best practice. The post holder will lead the development and implementation of systems and processes that place patient quality and safety initiatives at the core of Trust practice and business. They will promote a culture of learning and openness and ensure clinical staff has the knowledge, capability, systems, and support to embed lessons learned in practice for the improvement of patient care.
7. Actively promote and use the Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust improvement methodology to enable the organisation to achieve its vision and strategy.
8. Ensure that the Trust complies with statutory, regulatory, and best practice requirements in relation to nursing and professional standards, with effective assurance monitoring processes in place. This will include producing reports, presenting up to board level which may contain highly contentious information regarding patients, safe staffing etc.
9. Ensure professional standards are maintained and the quality of care to patients continuously improves through leadership of the nursing profession.
10. Play a significant role in the management of risk in the Trust, specifically providing leadership and expertise to the Nursing and Midwifery workforce and all other employees. Lead on the management of the corporate nursing risk register on behalf of the Chief Nurse
11. Receive and analyse reports to identify any trends in risk, incident or quality issues including the raising of concerns providing detailed information and recommendations for actions.
12. Provide analytical reports on themes and trends arising from incidents, claims and inquests to inform Trust level actions and learning; take a lead role in capturing learning and develop strategies in conjunction with clinical teams for sharing lessons learned.
13. To support the Serious Incident (SI) panel by preparing reports and participating in the panel meetings to ensure scrutiny of SI investigation, management, and reporting processes.
14. Oversee the management of relevant external assessments/accreditation visits within areas of responsibility ensuring implementation of resulting actions.
15. The post holder will be responsible for reviewing and interpreting highly complex, sensitive, and contentious information and presenting in a user-friendly format up to Executive Board Level. This may include data from CQC, Risk Register and staffing levels. The post holder will be responsible for reviewing organisational wide data and escalating concerns appropriately.
16. Proactively support the use of quality metrics in driving up standards
17. Support the Assistant Director of Integrated Governance to ensure quality governance systems are in place in line with the CQC well-led framework

Communications:

1. Exhibit the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills and develop effective communication strategies with the executive team, divisional teams and Heads of Nursing and other staff.
2. Provide, analyse, and receive highly complex and sensitive information as appropriate.
3. Use considerable influencing and negotiating skills to lead on the Trusts transformation programmes for which the Chief Nurse is Senior Responsible Officer.

Responsibility for Patient Care

1. In conjunction with the Chief Nurse and the Medical Director, work with the senior nursing and midwifery team and other senior clinical staff and managers to ensure the successful delivery of the Trust's Quality Strategy.
2. Work with the Assistant Director of Integrated Governance to achieve the annual CQUIN programme.
3. With the Integrated Safeguarding team, ensure delivery of the Trusts dementia strategy.

1. To develop the strategic management and capability of the Trusts nursing and midwifery leaders, and ensure that their teams are fully supported, involved, and engaged in strategic planning and management of the Trust.
2. The post holder will be responsible for leading on producing and implementing long term strategic plans including Recruitment and Retention, Workforce Planning/Transformation, Infection Prevention and Control and Patient Experience. The post holder will work closely with other departments in the Trust to look innovatively at how the Trust delivers Nursing, Midwifery and AHP services to ensure patients receive the best possible care.
3. Be responsible for the direct implementation of Nursing, Quality and Safety and Patient Safety strategies across all areas of the organisation.
4. Support the Assistant Director of Integrated Governance on the implementation and embedding of PSIRF.

1. Deputise for the Chief Nurse across the full portfolio of the Directors responsibilities in their absence and act in his/her place as required, including representation at Trust Board level and meetings external to the Trust, keeping the Executive Director of informed of issues/events as they arise.
2. Work as a key member of the Corporate team to ensure that organisational delivery objectives are met; in line with Tameside and Glossop ICFT NHS FT vision to be a leader in national and international healthcare.
3. Be accountable for and manage the delegated revenue budgets within Corporate Nursing to ensure the expenditure and income is within Directorate financial plans and budget.
4. Actively contribute to the performance management and monitoring of standards across the Corporate Team taking remedial action where necessary to ensure that corporate objectives and targets are achieved and that all performance monitoring requirements are achieved
5. This is a central role in providing professional leadership and advice across the trust acute and community services and will provide professional leadership advice and support to the Divisional triumvirates
6. To contribute to the Trusts efficiency targets by the effective use of resources and contributing to the Trust Efficiency Programme and Cost Improvement planning process.

Person Specification

First Level Registered Nurse. with current NMC registration

Essential

• Educated to Masters level in appropriate Health or Social Care related subject or equivalent lived experience.
• Evidence of CPD in line with professional regulatory guidance.
• Extensive senior nursing, managerial experience and professional leadership in a Healthcare setting
• Extensive senior nursing, managerial experience and professional leadership in a Healthcare setting
• Advanced decision making, problem solving, negotiating, and influencing skills. Extensive experience as a clinical practitioner
• Experience in workforce planning and modelling
• Demonstrates breadth and depth of understanding of current NHS Policy and ability to interpret and implement in practice
• Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of Integrated Health and Social Care models
• Experience in developing diverse clinical teams
• Experience in managing large scale change successfully
• Experience of developing services to respond to the needs of diverse communities to address healthcare inequalities
• Evidence of inclusively involving patients, families, local communities, service users and staff in shaping plans and delivering service improvements.
• Evidence of using influence and negotiating skills
• Evidence of successful change management
• Evidence of managing conflict and deploying successful conflict resolution strategies
• Ability to work with different disciplines across education, health and social care settings
• Experience of managing and leading safeguarding issues.
• Experience of managing and mitigating risk.
• Experience of undertaking audit and quality improvement
• Experience of Implementation of HR policies / procedures and managing complex employee relations situations
• Knowledge, understanding and management of a culture of integrated governance
• Knowledge of quality improvement tools and methodology including implementation of quality frameworks.
• Understands and applies principles of quality assurance and control
• Established and authentic leadership abilities, able to provide inclusive leadership and empower diverse staff at all levels.

Desirable

• Registered Midwife

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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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).

Employer details

Employer name

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tameside and Glossop ICFT

Fountain Street

Ashton - Under- Lyne

OL6 9RW

Employer's website

https://www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)