This role offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to become part of an integrated team to deliver a hospital fit for the future in West Norfolk.

The New Hospital Programme is part of a rolling programme of investment in new health capital infrastructure to deliver new hospitals up to 2030 and beyond. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn is part of this fantastic project. This role will allow you to help shape the services, how they are delivered and in what environment they will be delivered from.

Main duties of the job

The Nursing Lead New Hospital-Strategic Projects will work alongside the Associate Medical Director to provide multidisciplinary clinical leadership for the design of the clinical services, their pathways, and their processes. The role is responsible for engaging staff, patients and the public in the co-production process that will create a new health and care facility which meets the needs of both the population it will provide care for and the staff who will provide that care. This process will centre on bringing together the views of QEHKLs clinicians with those of its service users and system wide stakeholders, to design a clinical model which is fit for the future.

The initial output is a clinical design brief that informs the shape and content of the new facility in a way that drives material strides in quality and outcomes, whilst addressing key healthcare issues such as sustainability, inequality and prevention. Beyond that, the Nursing Lead New Hospital-Strategic Projects will provide nursing leadership for the adoption of the new model of care and the transition into the new facility. The outputs will have to be delivered within the challenging time, cost, and quality parameters of the Future Hospitals Program.

About us

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is located near some of the most beautiful scenery in the UK, along the north Norfolk coast, and not far from Sandringham House.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based healthcare services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire.

We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers, approximately 530 beds, and a helipad for air ambulances. We work with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services, including as part of regional partnership and network models of care, such as the trauma network.

In February 2022 the significant progress that has been made at QEH was recognised by the Care Quality Commission who rated the Trust as 'Good' in all of the core services they inspected. They recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Trust is planning a major rebuild of the Hospital. The current estimated capital cost of circa �900m. The Trust intends to develop a facility that is exemplary in its design, sustainability and wider regeneration and economic value.

The Strategic Outline Case was approved in Spring 2021 and the Trust will seek Outline Business Case approval by July 2024 with Full Business case approval by September 2025. It is the Trusts desire to move at pace with the construction of this development and will have commenced works on the site by the end of 2025 (subject to agreement of procurement route).

The Nursing Lead New Hospital-Strategic Projects will work alongside the Associate Medical Director to provide multidisciplinary clinical leadership for the design of the clinical services, their pathways, and their processes. The role is responsible for engaging staff, patients and the public in the co-production process that will create a new health and care facility which meets the needs of both the population it will provide care for and the staff who will provide that care. This process will centre on bringing together the views of QEHKLs clinicians with those of its service users and system wide stakeholders, to design a clinical model which is fit for the future. The initial output is a clinical design brief that informs the shape and content of the new facility in a way that drives material strides in quality and outcomes, whilst addressing key healthcare issues such as sustainability, inequality and prevention. Beyond that, the Nursing Lead New Hospital-Strategic Projects will provide nursing leadership for the adoption of the new model of care and the transition into the new facility. The outputs will have to be delivered within the challenging time, cost, and quality parameters of the Future Hospitals Program.

Person Specification

Qualifications/training and professional development

Essential

• Evidence of academic pathway equivalent to degree in Nursing/Midwifery or health related study
• Evidence of Masters qualification.
• Professional nursing/midwifery qualification
• Demonstration and evidence of personal professional development

Desirable

• Management or leadership qualification, which has been tested in a management post

Experience

Essential

• Proven experience at senior nurse/midwifery level in an acute setting with highly developed and detailed knowledge and experience of the following: Current health policy and its impact on the management and development of acute health services Experience of effective budgetary management
• Providing advice to specialist and non-specialist staff
• Experience of analysing and making judgements involving situations where there are a number of conflicting issues, and where there is no obvious outcome - some of which be conflicting
• Experience of ability to manage change quickly and effectively
• Presentation skills

Desirable

• Evidence of effective working relationships both inside and outside the organisation
• Experience of leading strategic/cross Trust changes
• Experience in preparing business cases

Skills, abilities, and knowledge

Essential

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to liaise and negotiate
• Proven track record in improving patient measured outcomes/patient safety indicators within their current role
• Ability to plan and prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands
• IT literate
• Knowledge and application of research methodologies
• Implementation of clinical audit methodologies
• Have an ability to be able to analyse, interpret and act upon complex data
• An understanding and experience of staff and organisational development
• Significant knowledge and understanding of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Safeguarding
• Ability to make autonomous decisions as required
• Ability to communicate complex, and in some instances highly complex information effectively with colleagues and other agencies
• Ability to motivate others
• Ability to create a compelling vision to persuade other to follow certain courses of action, with sound underpinning justification
• Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty & integrity in undertaking the role
• Ability to motivate team to maximize performance

Desirable

• Experience of working to a strategic direction and have contributed to this.
• Experience of managing change across a range of settings

Employer details

Employer name

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

Address

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

Gayton Road

King's Lynn

PE30 4ET

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426-686-23DC