Divisional Director of Nursing - Emergency and Integrated Care

Job summary

Divisional Director of Nursing - Emergency and Integrated Care

We are seeking a candidate with strong leadership and management experience to join our team in the Division of Emergency and Integrated Care. The organisation and the Division have an ambitions continuous improvement journey to ensure it delivers high quality care to its patients and be the employer of choice for its staff.

As Divisional Director of Nursing you will be responsible for the leadership of all nursing and support staff within the Division, including our A&Es and Urgent Care Centre, Ambulatory Emergency Care, inpatient wards and Clinical Nurse Specialists. You will work as part of the Divisional management team to deliver the strategic plan for the Division.

Main duties of the job

You will work across sites at our Acute Hospitals based on the Fulham Road in Chelsea and at West Middlesex Hospital in Hounslow. You will also be part of the Senior Manager on Call rota for one of the acute hospital sites.Working as part of the senior nursing leadership team you will shape the future of nursing at the organisation and ensure that the voice of nursing is heard from ward to board. With a strong emphasis on clinical quality and patient experience this role is pivotal in the delivery of Trust strategies.

About us

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have over 6,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

In 2020 Trust was rated by the Care Quality Commission as Outstanding in the well-led and use of resources domains and Good in the safe, effective, caring, and responsive domains. The Trust as a whole was Good, but the Chelsea site was Outstanding.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.