Professional Lead

Job responsibilities

The Professional Lead role is accountable to the Deputy Chief Nurse but will be operationally responsible and line managed within Directorate Structure and posts holders will provide clinical and professional leadership across the profession specific clinical Workforce in Allied Health Professions, Dental Nursing, Adult Nursing, Childrens Nursing. The role will lead the development of initiatives within the organisation to support workforce priorities across the profession specific clinical workforce

The post holder must possess the professional knowledge and attributes to professionally lead the profession specific teams, innovate current practice, manage change and address quality issues when required.

The post holder will be required to work collaboratively to ensure we deliver excellent care with compassion across the profession specific services. This is a key role for the trust to ensure the Nursing and AHP strategy are progressed and delivered.

The post holder will provide highly visible professional leadership for all professionals within the organisation working with clinical and operational leaders to ensure compliance with professional standards and high-quality care.

The role will provide professional leadership in the implementation of an organisational level strategic workforce plan and will establish initiatives within the Trust to identify professional and workforce priorities for registered and support workers within the Professional group.

Will work closely with key stakeholders internally and externally as part of the Trusts commitment to implementing the Peoples Plan providing representation at appropriate groups including the Workforce POD and the Quality Council.

The post holder will hold responsibility for the education and development of clinical staff to achieve a flexible and competent workforce fit for the future.

The post holder will provide expertise and clinical leadership to ensure the highest possible standards of clinical care are delivered and the Trust clinical and quality strategies are implemented across the Trust.

The post holder will manage a designated group of staff and service.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Communication

The post holder will:

1. Be responsible for sharing information and best practice, driving and influencing change in services with clinicians and a range of other stakeholders. These will often be challenging and difficult discussions around the detail of national and local policy.
2. Be required to relay and explain complex information to a range of lay, managerial and clinical audiences
3. Prepare and present complex information to project boards, senior managers, Trust meetings, clinical/workforce teams and external stakeholders.
4. Establish effective matrix working relationships with members of the Directorate leadership team, professional/clinical workforce and leads within the quality and nursing teams.

Professional Leadership

The post holder will:

5. To work with the quality leadership team in the delivery of the corporate and borough objectives by promoting excellence and quality improvement in all areas of clinical practice and ensuring professional staff are empowered to deliver the objectives.

6. To represent the clinical workforce at Trust level to ensure the corporate professional agenda relating to clinical leadership for all groups is considered and included.

7. Contribute to the development of directorate strategies and lead their implementation through staff development and establishing, communicating and monitoring standards for practice.

8. Be responsible for attending regional profession specific working groups and implementing agreed changes across the clinical workforce.

9. Support the Senior Nursing and Governance leads within the Trust in implementation of a safe and learning culture in the organisation, learning from clinical incidents and in line with the introduction of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.

10. Responsible for working with profession specific group and Directorate to support clinical teams to evidence quality in alignment with the CQC single assessment framework and be a core member of the quality visit assurance process in the trust.

Workforce Planning/Development

The post holder will:

11. To work with the Deputy Chief Nurse / Directors of Nursing to develop an organisational workforce plan for services to incorporate future skill mix to meet service/patient pathways within local health economy.

12. Provide expertise and senior leadership in translating relevant national, regional and local policy initiatives and updates associated with new and ongoing programmes within the Trust, and provide the plans to ensure that these are rolled out and embedded at clinical level

13. Provide expertise and senior leadership on specific transformation programmes and projects aligned to delivery of the Trusts Strategic Plans, NHS Operating Framework objectives and the NHS People Plan.

14. Establish and maintain groups and forums to develop and implement required changes.

15. Act as a key influence in the development of the Trusts education and development programmes ensuring training activities and opportunities to support service delivery, succession planning and growth of the clinical workforce.

Strategic Development

The post holder will:

16. Contribute to the wider strategic development of services ensuring the Trust quality strategy and clinical strategies.

17. Develop frameworks that ensure close working across agencies in securing delivery of specific initiatives promoting shared approaches across services.

18. Advise and support the operational managers on all aspects of professional practice.

19. Support the provision of specialist advice in relation to clinical pathways and leadership to ensure that staff are empowered and enabled to deliver the professional agenda.

20. To ensure that staff effectively influence the transformation agenda for to support enhance patient care.

21. Take professional lead in establishing and maintaining professional networks within the Trust and regional and national networks.

Policies

The post holder will:

22. Map examples of best practice locally, nationally and internationally, and create and implement plans to ensure that these are incorporated into the Trusts policies and procedures, and are adopted by the relevant clinical services

1. Provide expertise and advice on corporate policies which relate to clinical services, or involve enablers that need to be taken into account in delivering in specialist areas, where they would be expected to advise on how best to proceed
2. Oversee the adaptation of local and national care pathways, supporting the development and implementation at clinical level

Staff Management

The post holder will:

25. Provide full line management responsibilities including recruitment, induction, appraisal, development and retention of identified staff group.

26. Manage sickness and absence, disciplinary and performance issues that may arise.

27. Be responsible for developing and motivating staff through effective personal leadership, ensuring views and decisions are communicated both up and down the management structure.

28. Develop workforce plans which anticipate service changes and developments and which address recruitment, retention and workforce supply issues to minimise the impact of these on service delivery.

29. Lead and support organisational change to ensure efficient service delivery and productivity and compliance with Trust requirements.

30. Manage delegated budget responsibilities for the services, ensuring adherence to agreed budget plans, identifying cost improvement savings and implementing plans to reduce costs safely.

31. Produce comprehensive project plans to support the implementation of service changes.

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree level qualification, or equivalent
• Professional qualification in Allied Health Profession / Registered Nurse / Registered Dental Nurse or Health Care Science, or equivalent

Desirable

• project management qualification
• Specialist Practice Qualification in area of professional practice

Experience

Essential

• Significant demonstrable experience of NHS operation and clinical management
• Significant demonstrable experience of delivering large scale, complex change management projects and/or service redesign within the NHS environment
• Experience and ability to coordinate work across multiple teams, organisations, and other health bodies
• Full understanding of what good governance constitutes and its application to practice.
• Proven ability to manage resources effectively

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Do you have the right to stay and work in the UK without sponsorship (share-codes will be checked if applicable)

Additional Criteria

Essential

• If you are related to a director, or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship:

Skills and Attributes

Essential

• Excellent leadership skills, with the ability to drive and motivate teams of people at all levels of the Trust, and to manage conflict
• Highly developed project management skills with a demonstrable track record in the delivery of successful clinical redesign and change projects
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex information, and make decisions based on highly complicated and sometimes incomplete information
• Ability to build strong working relationships at all levels
• Strategic understanding and knowledge of the wider NHS and social care structures, policy, legislation and guidance.

Travel / Working Hours

Essential

• Ability to analyse, interpret and present quantitative and qualitative data to a range of audience
• Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
• Able to obtain and evaluate information to aid decision making.
• Able to promote team working and best practice.
• Able to lead and manage other staff.
• Commitment to CPD of self and others.
• Ability to prioritise
• Able to write a formal paper/report and present to a group.
• Innovative and responsive to change.
• The ability to travel independently across the Trust
• The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).