Job summary
Are
you passionate about Children, Young People, Families (CYPF) and putting
individuals at the heart of everything you do? Are you an experienced,
compassionate senior nurse or AHP who strives for excellence in the delivery of
safe, effective and recovery focused care?
If you are we would
love to hear from you and encourage an application from you for our exciting
new role.
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You
will work in a variety of settings across Herefordshire and Worcestershire,
providing highly visible professional leadership for Nurses and AHPs, ensuring
that the highest standards of clinical care for CYPF are delivered in line with
national and local standards. We are
developing our services to offer the best possible outcomes for the people we
care for and this role will be integral to that journey.
The
directorate also incorporates specialist primary care services including sexual
health services and dentistry and an ability to use transferable skills to
offer professional leadership and quality oversight to these teams will be
required.
In
return we will offer you a supportive team environment that cares for the staff
working as part of it. We strive to be
compassionate and kind in everything we do, and hope this creates the
environment for our teams and staff to offer that kindness and compassion to
the service users they work with.
Please call to discuss this
fantastic opportunity.
Main duties of the job
Is a core member of the
triumvirate senior leadership team and is responsible for ensuring Nurses and
AHPs have the right skills, in the right place to provide the right care at
the right time and are capable, confident and competent to deliver high quality
service user centred care.
Is accountable and responsible for
providing the professional leadership of the registered and non-registered
Nursing and AHP workforce across defined services. The post holder will ensure
services are appropriately resourced and able to meet all the regulatory care
standards required.
Will provide senior strategic visible
clinical and professional leadership, for Nursing and AHPs. Providing
specialist expertise and taking specific responsibility for patient safety,
quality and experience.
Will hold overall responsibility for
the standard of Nursing and AHP care within the service delivery unit.
Will work with the Associate Director
and Associate Medical Director to ensure that services have a clear clinical
model, that staff understand their roles in relation to this, and that a system
of agreed quality metrics is used to demonstrate efficacy of care delivery.
Will
provide strategic and operational Nursing and AHP input to ensure appropriate
advice is provided to the clinical teams so that effective, high quality, safe,
recovery focussed services are delivered consistently across the services.
Interviews to be held 06/01/2025
About us
At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.
We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. Its why we were named Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year award at the 2022 Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.
What we offer
27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
Flexible and agile working opportunities
Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
Wide range of staff networks such as LGBT+ and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage)
Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes
Health and wellbeing opportunities
If you would like to know more, please visit our careers website.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the duties and criteria for the role
please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the duties and criteria for the role
please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Translation of current national strategy into practice
- Thorough and up to date knowledge of health professional therapy and best practice particularly within speciality areas and application to practice
- Up to date knowledge of clinical and corporate governance issues
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Put patient care at the heart of the work you do to improve health care outcomes and service delivery
- Encourage others to develop themselves and the service through improvement, innovation and continuous development
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Compassionate and courageous leadership, motivating and inspiring others
- Ability to challenge poor behaviour and role model good behaviour
- A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
- Ability to praise and be supportive to others
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse or Registered Allied Health Professional with relevant
- experience
- NMC or HCPC current registration
- A range of professional qualifications in clinical practice
- Masters degree or relevant experience
- Evidence of up to date personal and continuing professional development
- Management/leadership qualification
- I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working and influencing at a senior level (including sub-Board level) and being operationally accountable for a team or service
- Well-developed clinical understanding in mental health and learning disabilities.
- Able to advise on and implement improvements to the quality and efficiency of care for patients in the organisation.
- Experience of achieving changed clinical practice
- Experience of effective and collaborative working across a range of clinical and service areas
- Experience of applying a range of leadership and management strategies
- Experience of leading and developing change
- Experience of partnership working, decision making, negotiation and conflict resolution
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Translation of current national strategy into practice
- Thorough and up to date knowledge of health professional therapy and best practice particularly within speciality areas and application to practice
- Up to date knowledge of clinical and corporate governance issues
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Put patient care at the heart of the work you do to improve health care outcomes and service delivery
- Encourage others to develop themselves and the service through improvement, innovation and continuous development
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Compassionate and courageous leadership, motivating and inspiring others
- Ability to challenge poor behaviour and role model good behaviour
- A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
- Ability to praise and be supportive to others
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse or Registered Allied Health Professional with relevant
- experience
- NMC or HCPC current registration
- A range of professional qualifications in clinical practice
- Masters degree or relevant experience
- Evidence of up to date personal and continuing professional development
- Management/leadership qualification
- I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working and influencing at a senior level (including sub-Board level) and being operationally accountable for a team or service
- Well-developed clinical understanding in mental health and learning disabilities.
- Able to advise on and implement improvements to the quality and efficiency of care for patients in the organisation.
- Experience of achieving changed clinical practice
- Experience of effective and collaborative working across a range of clinical and service areas
- Experience of applying a range of leadership and management strategies
- Experience of leading and developing change
- Experience of partnership working, decision making, negotiation and conflict resolution
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).
