Job summary
CARE YOU CAN BE PROUD OF
Whatever you're looking for in your next career move, you'll find it all at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. Bringing together hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we're pooling our knowledge, skills and resources to provide even better care for the diverse communities of our thriving city and further. It also means more opportunities for you. With state-of-the-art facilities and strong research links, you can advance your specialism, progress your career, and take your knowledge further. We want talented people from all backgrounds to choose to join our diverse teams, and so we'll support your work-life balance with flexible and agile working options. And, with the best of both inner city and country living on our doorstep, you can enjoy a better quality of life too.
So why not make your best and next career move joining our senior leadership team us as Deputy Director of Nursing for our group of four hospitals; Wythenshawe, Trafford, Altrincham and Withington.
Main duties of the job
The Role
We're seeking a passionate and inspired individual to be responsible for the day to day professional leadership of Nursing. Reporting to the WTWA Director of Nursing, this is an exciting opportunity for you to help drive change, empower senior nurses to develop and utilise clinical leadership skills, ensuring they have appropriate levels of authority to undertake their role effectively and fulfil their accountabilities. It's an extremely rewarding role, working with the wider multi-disciplinary team to develop and implement new models of care to ensure that patients and families are able to receive the best care possible, supporting the move from hospital to the community setting.
What's more, you'll support the development and implementation of group policies and will contribute to the Group-wide projects so expect huge variety in this role. In addition, you'll actively promote the Trust as a centre of excellence and represent the profession as a role model for the values and behaviors using every opportunity to celebrate excellence in nursing and midwifery practice.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
About You
Resilient and ambitious with a wealth of experience working as a senior nurse within an Acute Trust, youll be eager for this new challenge. With an empowering leadership style and evidence of effectively managing change, youll be focused to drive and improve performance within others and throughout WTWA. Youll be an innovative thinker with a passion for contributing to research and be able to successfully drive a compassionate style of leadership behaviour and culture.
Inevitably, youll carry a vibrant can do attitude and mirror our values perfectly, with the skill and flexibility to operate at a high pace and overcome challenges readily, positively and collaboratively. Outstanding communication, negotiation and influencing skills will be imperative to your success.
This is a truly valuable opportunity to take your career to the next level. Working within a supportive senior leadership team and with the chance to really develop your own skills in the role, you will witness your vision having a direct impact on the lives of thousands of people across Manchester and beyond. Join an organisation thats as ambitious as you are. We offer unparalleled career opportunities and a great work-life balance in one of the countrys most exciting cities.
The Trust values statement of Together Care Matters captures the very essence of who we are, and if this appeals to you, this role could very much be made for you.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
About You
Resilient and ambitious with a wealth of experience working as a senior nurse within an Acute Trust, youll be eager for this new challenge. With an empowering leadership style and evidence of effectively managing change, youll be focused to drive and improve performance within others and throughout WTWA. Youll be an innovative thinker with a passion for contributing to research and be able to successfully drive a compassionate style of leadership behaviour and culture.
Inevitably, youll carry a vibrant can do attitude and mirror our values perfectly, with the skill and flexibility to operate at a high pace and overcome challenges readily, positively and collaboratively. Outstanding communication, negotiation and influencing skills will be imperative to your success.
This is a truly valuable opportunity to take your career to the next level. Working within a supportive senior leadership team and with the chance to really develop your own skills in the role, you will witness your vision having a direct impact on the lives of thousands of people across Manchester and beyond. Join an organisation thats as ambitious as you are. We offer unparalleled career opportunities and a great work-life balance in one of the countrys most exciting cities.
The Trust values statement of Together Care Matters captures the very essence of who we are, and if this appeals to you, this role could very much be made for you.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications Academic & Professional
Essential
- oRGN
- oGraduate
- oMasters in health related subject
- oUnderstanding of integrated health and social care models
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- oExtensive senior nursing and managerial experience within an acute Trust
- oExtensive experience as an experienced clinical practitioner
- oExtensive experience in workforce planning and modelling
- oDemonstrates breadth and depth of understanding of current NHS Policy and ability to interpret and implement in practice
- oExperience in developing clinical teams
- oExperience of working with national programmes and initiatives
- oExperience in managing large scale change successfully
- oEvidence of influence and negotiating skills
- oEvidence of successful change management
- oEvidence of managing conflict and deploying successful conflict resolution strategies
- oEvidence of securing funding to support organisational initiatives
- oAbility to work with different disciplines across the health, education and social care settings
- oEvidence of undertaking audit and contributing to research programmes
Desirable
- oContributor to research studies
- opublications
Personal Attributes
Essential
- oDemonstrates high degree of autonomy & decision making
- oAble to work unsupervised and manage deadlines
- oAbility to work under pressure
- oAbility to manage different projects simultaneously
- oEvidence of transformational change management
- oDemonstrates values based leadership style
Person Specification
Qualifications Academic & Professional
Essential
- oRGN
- oGraduate
- oMasters in health related subject
- oUnderstanding of integrated health and social care models
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- oExtensive senior nursing and managerial experience within an acute Trust
- oExtensive experience as an experienced clinical practitioner
- oExtensive experience in workforce planning and modelling
- oDemonstrates breadth and depth of understanding of current NHS Policy and ability to interpret and implement in practice
- oExperience in developing clinical teams
- oExperience of working with national programmes and initiatives
- oExperience in managing large scale change successfully
- oEvidence of influence and negotiating skills
- oEvidence of successful change management
- oEvidence of managing conflict and deploying successful conflict resolution strategies
- oEvidence of securing funding to support organisational initiatives
- oAbility to work with different disciplines across the health, education and social care settings
- oEvidence of undertaking audit and contributing to research programmes
Desirable
- oContributor to research studies
- opublications
Personal Attributes
Essential
- oDemonstrates high degree of autonomy & decision making
- oAble to work unsupervised and manage deadlines
- oAbility to work under pressure
- oAbility to manage different projects simultaneously
- oEvidence of transformational change management
- oDemonstrates values based leadership style
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).
