To provide professional leadership for health visiting ensuring safe and effective quality of care is delivered within the resources available while ensuring the care environment is organised to meet the needs of the patient enhancing their experience and supporting staff to meet the Divisional and Trust objectives through:

• The provision of visible, authoritative professional leadership support and direction for health visiting and by ensuring standards of practice and care are set and maintained.
• Ensuring that safe, high quality clinical services are delivered in line with national policy, Trust priorities, available evidence, and patient care needs.
• Lead programmes of improvement work related to patient harm, falls, pressure ulcer prevention and to support the delivery of the Trust and directorate clinical governance

Main duties of the job

The Main Tasks & Overview of Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain communication with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations.

Develop oneself and contribute to the development of others.

Maintain and develop an environment and culture that improves health, safety and security.

Appraise, interpret and apply suggestions, recommendations and directives to improve services.

Contribute to improving quality as part of the governance agenda

Promote equality and value diversity.

Plan, deliver and evaluate interventions and or treatments when there are complex issues including safeguarding and SEND.

Test and review new concepts, models, methods practices whilst working in partnership with other stakeholders.

Coordinate, monitor and review the use of financial resources.

Plan, develop, monitor and review the recruitment, deployment and management of people.

Facilitate the development of capacity and capability.

Provide clear leadership across the services.

Support the development of business cases as appropriate.

To adhere at all times to the NMC Code

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care , appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.

The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receivea full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/

We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current NMC registration
• First Level Nurse

Desirable

• Post basic qualification in management / leadership

Professional registration

Essential

• Current NMC registaration

Desirable

• Specialist Public Health Nurse - Health Visiting

Knowledge Training & Experience

Essential

• Clinical Management
• Experience at middle management level in the NHS
• Business planning and budgetary management
• Change management
• Organisational development
• Delivery of NHS targets
• Notable post registration experience and substantial experience are at a senior level in nursing / midwifery
• Understanding of health and social care management environment and the roles and responsibilities within it.
• Understanding of operational management within Acute setting
• Performance management methodology
• Knowledge of National Targets and Clinical Governance
• Knowledge of service improvement methods

Desirable

• Preparation of business cases including tender applications
• Evidence of extensive expert professional knowledge supplemented by post reg. specialist managerial / leadership training and CPD
• Roles and responsibilities of CCG, NHSE and LA Commissioners

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Ability to establish the respect of colleagues
• Self-motivated and results orientated.
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to adapt to rapid change
• Confident and decisive
• Sensitive to staff issues
• Evidence of persuasive and strong influencing skills and the ability to manage conflict
• Evidence of effective people management and leadership skills
• Proven record of leading and effectively managing change across organisations

Desirable

• Evidence of relevant involvement in meeting the Trust clinical governance objectives

Employer details

Employer name

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Chatsworth House

Roach Bank road

Bury

BL98RN

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