Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 409-S6447714
- Employer
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospital
- Town
- Prescot
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/08/2024
Employer heading
Head of Quality Nursing
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
Are you a forward thinking and inspirational leader?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an exceptional individual to join us as our Head of Quality - Nursing. We are looking for someone who can drive the strategic quality assurance framework and who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary services to our patients.
The successful post holder will have proven leadership skills and will develop effective systems that provide assurance of good quality patient care. We are seeking someone who will take a facilitative and empowering approach, nurturing creativity and leading others to adopt best practice throughout the Trust to support consistent delivery of fundamental nursing care.
Working collaboratively with senior nurses and other key stakeholders, the successful candidate will play a key role in the development and delivery of excellent fundamental nursing care practice.
We look forward to hearing from you if you are interested in hearing more about the role and would like to join our friendly senior nursing team.
Please note this recruitment process will involve an assessment centre.
Assessment Centre will be held on Wednesday 21st August 2024.
This may be subject to change
Main duties of the job
The Head of Quality (Nursing) will have managerial experience in leading teams and will possess leadership skills to deal competently with complex issues in ensuring that policy is implemented, and performance managed within the Division.
Working closely with the Divisional Leadership Team they will support the implementation of patient centered clinical operational strategy and plans, ensuring that systems and processes are in place to comply with relevant legislation and governance requirements, linking with external bodies such as commissioners about service developments, contracts and clinical care pathways whilst utilising the expertise and skills of the wider Divisional team.
Reporting to the Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing and accountable to the Divisional Director of Operations, the post holder is expected to function at a senior level within the Divisional senior leadership team, proactively leading and providing solutions to resolve complex operational issues, in accordance with agreed Trust objectives, targets, quality standards and resource constraints.
The post holder will participate in the on-call rota.
Working for our organisation
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.
From 1st July we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.
The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.
Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:
- CARE that is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
- SAFETY that is of the highest standards
- COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
- SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
- PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients
Our achievements include:
- Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our staff benefits. Accessible version available upon request.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Leading the promotion of the trust’s values, standards, and behaviour within the delivery of improved health services to the local population.
- Be an authentic, compassionate, and conscientious leader, a role model to all within the Division.
Promote and celebrate diversity and equal opportunities for provision of services and within the workforce. Upholds ethics and values; demonstrates integrity; promotes and defends equal opportunities, builds diverse team. - Ensuring that implementation plans, and monitoring processes are in place to deliver clinical and operational plans with particular emphasis on quality standards and contribution of the nursing service on behalf of the Division , including monitoring systems, structures, and processes for managing clinical quality, risk, and controls assurance.
- Delegated responsibility for nursing budgets across the Division in collaboration with Matrons and ward managers, reporting incidences of variance to the Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing.
- Responsible for developing Cost reduction and Cost Improvement plans for nursing in partnership with Matrons, Specialist Nurses and Ward Managers reporting progress and results to the Divisional team.
- Working with the senior leadership team, engineer the development of nurses, within the Division to ensure that patient care and services are led by competent, capable, high performing teams.
- Working with the senior leadership team, ensure that staff health and well-being is at the heart of all people management practice, and that there are mechanisms in place to develop resilience, reduce pressure points, and provide support for staff to manage their working lives, including application of Trust HR policy as and when required. Shows respect for the views and contributions of other team members; shows empathy; listens, supports and cares for others; consults others and shares information and expertise with them; builds team spirit and reconciles conflict; adapts to team and fits in well.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered
- Nursing degree or equivalent qualification
- Management qualification at master’s level or equivalent qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Currently working a senior clinical manager capacity, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls
- Experience of leading quality improvement initiatives with demonstrable outputs
- Experience of ward management
Desirable criteria
- Experience of ward management
- Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, managements, budgetary management, and workforce information systems
- Knowledge and understanding of governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy
Skills
Essential criteria
- Understanding and appreciation of diversity
- Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff, stakeholders and in developing high performance teams
- A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training, and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile difference, and resolve conflicts.
- Analyse data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks, and forming judgements often within tight timescales
- Champion the day-to-day quality of care provided by the nursing professions to meet challenging performance targets within tight financial controls
- Cope with competing priorities and a demanding workload
- Work in an environment with frequent disruptions and within stressful, unpredictable situations including responding to and solving urgent and emergency situations day to day
Desirable criteria
- Key issues and pace of changing facing the NHS nationally and locally, assess and describe impact on nursing/clinical professional service
- Principles and impact of the NHS Constitution
- Solve difficult problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lynn Evans
- Job title
- Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 676 5864
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