Queen Victoria Hospital wish to secure a permanentChief Nurse (CN), to provide professional leadership of the Nursing, Allied Health professional and Healthcare Scientist workforce ensuring the delivery of safe, high quality, compassionate care for patients and service users. As a voting member of the Board of Directors, the CN will work closely with the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Operating Officer to embed clinical leadership across QVH and ensure high quality care remains central to QVHs strategic direction and decision making. This critical role will lead on quality and governance arrangements for infection prevention and control and safeguarding alongside developing a culture that focuses on patient safety, learning, improvement and innovation.

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Main duties of the job

The Chief Nurse is the patient safety specialist responsible for the professional leadership of the Nursing, Allied Health Professional (AHP) and Healthcare Scientist (HCS) workforce, ensuring the delivery of safe, high quality, compassionate care for patients and service users.

The post holder will also be the executive lead for infection prevention and control and the executive lead for safeguarding.

This is a critical role that will embed clinical leadership across QVH, to develop a culture that focuses on patient safety, learning, improvement and innovation.

About us

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (QVH) is a specialist NHS trust providing life-changing reconstructive surgery, burns care and rehabilitation services for people across the South of England. The hospital specialises in conditions of the hands and eyes head and neck cancer and skin cancer reconstructive breast surgery maxillofacial surgery and prosthetics. In addition, QVH provides a minor injuries unit, expert therapies, a sleep service, and other community-based services.Patients consistently rate QVH amongst the top hospitals in the country for quality of care.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please follow this link https://andersonquigley.com/job/aq2751/ to apply and see full details of the role, working at the trust and essential person requirements

Person Specification

Offline

Essential

• offline

Agency led

Essential

• Agency led

Employer details

Employer name

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

East Grinstead

RH19 3DZ

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