Job summary
The Nursing Directorate is responsible for developing a strategic approach to ensuring people have a positive experience of care and treatment and that people are cared for in a safe environment as well as providing professional leadership to nurses and midwives.
- The regional team is led by the Regional Chief Nurse and a senior management team who work closely with all members of the Directorate, regionally and nationally.
- The Directorate supports six Integrated Care Board (ICB) areas within the footprint which includes Norfolk & Waveney, Suffolk & North East Essex, Cambridge and Peterborough, Mid & South Essex, West Essex & Hertfordshire and Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes.
- The Nursing Directorate has high expectations to meet the challenges of national policy and consistently strives to deliver clinical best practice in Nursing and Midwifery so that patients receive the right care in the right place at the right time.
- The Nursing Directorate is a highly dedicated and committed team who work together drawing on NHS Values.
- The Nursing Directorate works closely internally with colleagues across NHS England to ensure a comprehensive regional approach is taken and maintained delivery of patient care.
The Directorate continues to establish robust working practices alongside external agencies including Local Authorities, Regulators, Healthwatch and other voluntary and private sector organisations.
Main duties of the job
This system-facing role will provide senior nursing leadership in the following areas:
- Provides senior nursing and midwifery support and guidance in an advisory or supervisory capacity to frontline staff
- Supports quality improvement, surveillance and assurance, including safety, safeguarding and patient experience
- Supporting clinical sustainability
- Driving improvements in priority areas of the long-term plan, directors of nursing and infection, prevention and control nurses.
This post is a clinical post to be filled by a candidate with a nursing or midwifery qualification & extensive experience as a nurse, midwife or health visitor and current registration with the NMC. The postholder will be expected to deputise for the Regional Chief Nurse.
Working in collaboration with relevant colleagues, they will take regional leadership responsibility in one or more of the following areas: patient safety, assurance and organisational improvement and supporting the delivery of national priorities e.g. the Long Term Plan.
The post holder will play a key role managing the overarching quality framework within the region and ensure that Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), including constituent organisations, have a clear and consistent focus on quality, quality improvement and related nursing/ midwifery matters.
The post holder will act in accordance with the statutory and regulatory frameworks of NHS Improvement and NHS England.
About us
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Providing system leadership and clinical improvement advice to support local healthcare system resilience with a focus on positive outcomes and overall quality and safety of patient care.
- Working with other nursing and clinical colleagues, determine clinical support for trusts in the recovery support programme for reasons of quality (and challenged trusts that are at risk of entering the programme) to ensure that trusts receive the necessary support to improve quality.
- The Director of Nursing Quality and Leadership will take the lead on initiatives identified by the Regional Directors and through personal action and professional leadership shape and develop a culture of continuous service improvement that benefits patients.
- Operating in a matrix fashion, the post holder will utilise specialists, and bring their clinical expertise, senior nursing experience and knowledge to bear across the organisation to ensure clinical engagement and coordination is at the heart of the assurance and improvement roles.
- The post holder, as a member of the senior nursing and midwifery team, will support the Chief Nurse to deliver the objectives of the region.
- Improving quality and outcomes
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description.
If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today! We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out!
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Providing system leadership and clinical improvement advice to support local healthcare system resilience with a focus on positive outcomes and overall quality and safety of patient care.
- Working with other nursing and clinical colleagues, determine clinical support for trusts in the recovery support programme for reasons of quality (and challenged trusts that are at risk of entering the programme) to ensure that trusts receive the necessary support to improve quality.
- The Director of Nursing Quality and Leadership will take the lead on initiatives identified by the Regional Directors and through personal action and professional leadership shape and develop a culture of continuous service improvement that benefits patients.
- Operating in a matrix fashion, the post holder will utilise specialists, and bring their clinical expertise, senior nursing experience and knowledge to bear across the organisation to ensure clinical engagement and coordination is at the heart of the assurance and improvement roles.
- The post holder, as a member of the senior nursing and midwifery team, will support the Chief Nurse to deliver the objectives of the region.
- Improving quality and outcomes
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description.
If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today! We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified nurse or midwife with a current registration with the Nursing & Midwifery Council.
- Relevant Master's degree or equivalent.
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Significant experience as a senior nurse or Midwife
- Experience at board level (including as a deputy) or equivalent within a provider NHS trust/ foundation trust, ICS/CCG or an Arm's length body.
- High level of understanding of the NHS and care system, political environment and evidence-based approach to decision making.
Skills, Abilities and Attributes
Desirable
- Proven high level leadership skills at a national and senior level within the health service.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focussed on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified nurse or midwife with a current registration with the Nursing & Midwifery Council.
- Relevant Master's degree or equivalent.
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Significant experience as a senior nurse or Midwife
- Experience at board level (including as a deputy) or equivalent within a provider NHS trust/ foundation trust, ICS/CCG or an Arm's length body.
- High level of understanding of the NHS and care system, political environment and evidence-based approach to decision making.
Skills, Abilities and Attributes
Desirable
- Proven high level leadership skills at a national and senior level within the health service.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focussed on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
