Job summary
Interview Date: Friday 27th September 2024
A unique and exciting opportunity for an exceptional nurse leader!
The Integrated Care and Community Division is seeking a Divisional Director of Nursing with a passion and commitment to integrated care. The Division is responsible for adult community services in Swindon, an intermediate care unit, cancer services, palliative care and outpatient's services at Great Western Hospital and we're working with our system partners to integrate care and deliver the very best care for our patients.
This is a unique role where you have the opportunity to ensure the community and secondary care nursing workforce work collaboratively to improve patient outcomes and experience. Our Trust is ideally placed to build a workforce that offers attractive, fulfilling and flexible careers, and you will lead, inspire and create a culture of innovation and willingness to create new ways of working.
Main duties of the job
We have exciting developments in all our services to ensure the expertise and expanded role of the community nurse is maximised in planning and decision-making. Supported by experienced and dedicated Heads of Nursing you will lead and promote new roles from Advanced Clinical Practitioners to Nurse Associates across secondary and community care developing patient centred pathways that create capacity and promote health and wellbeing.
As a division we are innovative with a "can do" reputation and you will build on this profile celebrating successes such as our Urgent Community Response, Hospital at Home and End Of Life Care Teams to continue to influence decision-makers, colleagues and system partners.
You won't be doing this alone. You'll be part of a fantastic senior leadership team, divisional triumvirate and will work increasingly closely with partners to build capacity within the Integrated Care System. You will also be a member of the Trust senior nursing team working alongside the Chief Nurse to drive and lead improvements in the standards of care Trust wide.
Roles like this, with real potential to shape local care delivery and directly impact upon the care patients receive across primary, secondary, and community settings, don't come around very often. We're therefore looking for an experienced, passionate and compassionate senior nurse leader to support our transformation strategy to better integrate care.
About us
To do this you'll need to provide strategic influence in service planning, future workforce and quality and safety initiatives. Working in partnership you will bring focus to population health and wellbeing, optimize digital innovation and work to improve patient outcomes, experience and access.
You'll be joining a great team in a great place, where your commitment will be genuinely valued, your skills respected, and your ambition rewarded.
For Further information or to arrange an informal visit please contactPaul Devenish (Associate Medical Director) and/or Helen Mee (Divisional Director)
Email: paul.devenish@nhs.net &/or helenmee@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Divisional Director of Nursing is responsible for the effectiveness of professional leadership and development of nursing within the Division and other allocated areas in order to facilitate the delivery of excellent clinical practice. The post holder may hold delegated responsibility for areas of practice from the Chief Nurse.
Please see the full Job description attached
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Divisional Director of Nursing is responsible for the effectiveness of professional leadership and development of nursing within the Division and other allocated areas in order to facilitate the delivery of excellent clinical practice. The post holder may hold delegated responsibility for areas of practice from the Chief Nurse.
Please see the full Job description attached
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife or Registered Nurse with the Nursing & Midwifery Council
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to masters level or equivalent
- Demonstrates evidence of on-going continuous professional development.
Desirable
- Management qualification - NEBs, CMS, DMS etc. Some form of management qualification is highly desirable
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of senior nursing and/or midwifery leadership and management experience.
- Evidence of clinical management experience.
- Experience of managing a range of departments which includes managing workforce, operational delivery, finance management.
- Experience in delivering quality improvement projects with defined outcomes
- Demonstrable experience of achieving changed clinical practice and improving services to increase quality and efficiency.
- Experience of working at and influencing at a senior level.
- Experience of developing collaborative working within teams.
- Thorough understanding of equality & diversity and its application to managing self, staff and patients across the Trust.
- Understanding of NMC Code of practice and requirements of it for the practice & behaviour and its application to the management of staff and self.
- Proven experience of budgetary/financial management.
- Proven track record in co-design and production
Desirable
- Experience of developing business cases / business planning
- Track record of serving on a range of committees both internal and external to the organisation
- Project management experience.
- Evidence of community experience in leadership or clinical role
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife or Registered Nurse with the Nursing & Midwifery Council
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to masters level or equivalent
- Demonstrates evidence of on-going continuous professional development.
Desirable
- Management qualification - NEBs, CMS, DMS etc. Some form of management qualification is highly desirable
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of senior nursing and/or midwifery leadership and management experience.
- Evidence of clinical management experience.
- Experience of managing a range of departments which includes managing workforce, operational delivery, finance management.
- Experience in delivering quality improvement projects with defined outcomes
- Demonstrable experience of achieving changed clinical practice and improving services to increase quality and efficiency.
- Experience of working at and influencing at a senior level.
- Experience of developing collaborative working within teams.
- Thorough understanding of equality & diversity and its application to managing self, staff and patients across the Trust.
- Understanding of NMC Code of practice and requirements of it for the practice & behaviour and its application to the management of staff and self.
- Proven experience of budgetary/financial management.
- Proven track record in co-design and production
Desirable
- Experience of developing business cases / business planning
- Track record of serving on a range of committees both internal and external to the organisation
- Project management experience.
- Evidence of community experience in leadership or clinical role
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Orbital Office
1st floor, North Swindon District Centre, Thamesdown Drive,
Swindon
SN25 4AN
Employer's website
https://www.gwh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
