Head of Nursing and AHP’s

Job summary

We are recruiting to the position of Head of Nursing for Urgent Care at Southport & Ormskirk NHS Trust. We are looking for a talented and highly motivated individual with a proven track record of managing and influencing at a senior level, who wants to make a real difference to our patients and staff, to join our team.

We are seeking an inspirational leader who is confident, dynamic, visible and has significant experience working at a strategic senior level in healthcare.

The successful candidate must be a role model demonstrating the Trust values, who will be able to lead clinically and strategically to ensure the delivery of the best possible care to our particularly elderly population throughout the directorates of the clinical business unit.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will join the senior leadership team alongside the Associate Director of Operations and the Associate Medical Director, and will form part of senior on-call management rota. They will provide senior clinical support, operationally managing the Urgent Care Matron Team and working closely with the emergency care, general medicine and specialty medicine directorates.

With a new leadership team in the Urgent Care Clinical Business Unit, this is a really exciting time and any aspiring candidates are welcomed to contact Mark Carmichael, Associate Director of Operations - Urgent Care via mark.carmichael@nhs.net or Bridget Lees, Executive Director of Nursing via b.lees1@nhs.net

About us

This role presents the opportunity to join the urgent care triumvirate, who are committed to continuously improving, adapting and trialing new innovative workforce and clinical models, to deliver a positive environment in which our staff can flourish and fundamentally to ensure excellent patient experience and outstanding care.

The individual must have extensive experience in senior leadership, quality improvement and managing risk as well as the skills and ability to critically appraise and offer leadership to the strategic developments within the CBU and Trust.