Job vacancy: Associate Chief Nurse, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Chelsea

Job summary

Main area: Nursing
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8d
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 282-OD431

Employer: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Royal Marsden Chelsea
Town: Chelsea
Salary: £96,340 - £109,849 per annum inc HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/05/2025 23:59

Associate Chief Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 8d

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

• Lead the nursing element on the introduction of nursing apprenticeships to the organisation at scale.
• Work with key corporate colleagues in EPRR to ensure the role out of fire training and simulated evacuation, distribution, and shift presence of fire wardens across the departments on all sites.
• To work with key EPRR colleagues to ensure COSHH compliance in all wards and departments.
• Support the organisation with risk and governance related aspects of nursing workforce, specifically supporting delivery of rostering improvement plans.
• Work with divisional colleagues to explore and support the potential roll out of the national uniform strategy.
• Lead the PPI team to continue to deliver a person-centred and enhanced patient experience offer.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered nurse
Masters degree/higher qualification or equivalent experience
Recognised Cancer Qualification

Desirable criteria

Further evidence of management/leadership qualification or training

Experience & Knowledge

Essential criteria

Significant experience at a senior nurse level within a Health care environment
Significant experience of successfully implementing large change projects across services
Experience of working with cancer and / or palliative patients/service users to improve experience.
Experience in implementing safe/quality initiatives and service improvement projects
Significant in setting objectives and performance management and holding staff to account.
Extensive experience of effective workforce planning and can demonstrate an understanding of establishment and acuity dependency tools
Experience in providing advice on complex professional issues
Experience of producing high quality reports in a timely manner for consideration at Senior level internally and externally.
Thorough knowledge and experience of clinical governance issues, quality improvement and minimising risk for the organisation
Understanding of the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda and its practical application to nursing and AHP services.

Desirable criteria

Experience in a corporate role.

Skills and Ability

Essential criteria

Knowledge of Nursing & Midwifery Policy & Practice and NMC standards and requirements.
Analytical skills, managing conflicting priorities, analyse complex data and develop services in partnership
Committed to improving patient care and raising clinical and professional standards.
Good knowledge of financial Standing Instructions.
Able to influence at a variety of levels of seniority and professional groups.
Evidence of leading change through others
Ability to translate policy, plan targets and vision into effective strategic and operational plans.
Ability to perform under pressure while delivering high quality outcomes within agreed timescale.
Proactive and solution driven and willingness to deliver consistently high standards of work.

Desirable criteria

Experience in managing the Nursing & Midwifery Education Agenda

Planning and Organisation Skills

Essential criteria

Evidence of ability to operate effectively with a variety of leadership styles as appropriate to the circumstances
Evidence of skill and effectiveness as a member of a team, contributing especially to team building and inspirational leadership. Evidence of the ability to motivate and to enthuse colleagues (i.e. personality, credibility, intelligence and charisma) locally and across organisational boundaries.
Evidence of the ability to take hard decisions when needed, or to be firm or compassionate as the situation demands and to be credible throughout the behavioural spectrum
Ability to encourage participation of all team members encouraging balancing the needs of cynics and visionaries.
Ability to constructively challenge
Proven abilities to push the boundaries, such as novel solutions to long term problems
Ability to empower team members to take smart risks within an appropriate governance framework.
Recognises others anxieties and problems and encourages them to find ways of dealing constructively with their stress: models a healthy work life balance

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

All applicants will be contacted by email to the address supplied on your application. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.

Flu Vaccination – What We Expect of our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.