The Deputy Head of Nursing will support the Divisional Director of Nursing (DDoN) to help lead and manage the nurses, AHP's and ACP's across all settings within the division. The Deputy Head of Nursing will work under the supervision of the Divisional Director of Nursing and in partnership with the Care Group Managers and Clinical Directors and Leads to provide strong and effective leadership to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of services to clinical users and patients.

The post holder will have direct line management Cancer Services (Nursing), Service Leads and CNS's for the Division, as well as professional support for the Matron's within the service. They will provide leadership to these individuals ensuring processes are in place to set objectives, monitor performance and agree, review and deliver personal development needs.

The Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing will deputise when required for the Divisional Director of Nursing in day to day activity, to provide a high level of professional, operational and clinical leadership across the Division and wider Trust.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

You will need to be enthusiastic and driven, with the willingness to go the extra mile to achieve what is required for our patients and your services. You will be educated to a master's level or equivalent and have demonstrable and credible experience of senior management roles in the health sector.

With excellent communication skills you will need to be able to establish your credibility at all levels internally and externally and be able to quickly build relationships within your own team and the wider organisation. Demonstrating a resilient and flexible can-do attitude and a strong focus on high delivery of quality, safe patient care is essential.

The existing Divisional Director of Nursing is looking for a strong compassionate leader who has core nursing values at the heart of how they practice, in order to provide outstanding quality of care. Alongside core nursing values they should bring a modern-day professional feel to being supportive, dynamic and engaging the nursing team on our journey to outstanding using patient pathway to drive excellence in care and by implementing principles and methodology in order for our teams to have a voice, feel valued and invested.

About us

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work with and lead a dynamic and high-profile team as a Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing within the Division of Surgery & Critical Care here at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust.

The post requires someone with the ability to think and act strategically, set direction in a complex environment, and manage relationships with a wide range of senior colleagues within the multi-disciplinary team. You will be required to be able to demonstrate a high level of analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, and a strong understanding of clinical specialty management and patient safety, quality care assurances across several specialties at once. You will need to be able to manage multiple competing priorities at one time whilst also demonstrating compassionate leadership.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing will support the Divisional Director of Nursing (DDoN) to help leadand manage the nurses and ACPs across all settings within the division. The Deputy DDoN will work under the supervision of the Divisional Director of Nursing and in partnershipwith the Care Group Managers and Clinical Directors and Leads to provide strong and effectiveleadership to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of services to clinical users andpatients.The post holder will have direct line management of the Cancer Services (Nursing), Service leads, and CNSs forthe division. They will provide leadership to theseindividuals ensuring processes are in place to set objectives, monitor performance and agree,review and deliver personal development needs.

For more details please refer to the JD attached

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Registered Nurse with Current NMC Registration.
• Master's degree in Nursing or evidence of study at this level
• Management Qualification or equivalent management experience
• Demonstrates evidence of ongoing continuous professional development

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential

• Demonstrates commitment to an empathetic and caring approach to patients and relatives and ability to motivate staff to demonstrate this to ensure that all patients' dignity & respect are maintained at all times
• Well-developed analytical and problem solving skills capable of interpreting and evaluating information
• Able to maximise leadership skills in Clinical Managers, Matrons, Midwives, Nurse Consultants and the wider team so all nursing and multidisciplinary staff are managed effectively through effective standard-setting, monitoring, feedback, appraisal, mentoring, clinical supervision and reflective practice
• Ability to influence, persuade and motivate others
• Ability to collaborate constructively with all key stakeholders (internal and external) and to create the conditions for successful partnership working
• Ability to provide a clear vision for change which is a source of inspiration and motivation for others skilled in all aspects of managing change, including supporting staff
• Ability to monitor and act to improve and deliver performance and establish high levels of quality and to hold others to account for delivery
• Highly skilled in identifying opportunities for partnership working, managing on going stakeholder relationships and proving support to others in this area
• Well-developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams
• Understand the vision for the future of nursing and be able to demonstrate the opportunities this will provide
• A strong commitment to openness, honesty and integrity
• Highly developed communication skills to resolve situations in complex environments
• High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement and flexibility in approach

TRAINING & EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Minimum of five years' experience working operationally as a senior clinical nurse
• A broad and well developed understanding of nursing and midwifery policy
• Experience of working across other NHS organisations
• Experience of successfully managing many services including people and budgetary management
• Demonstrable experience of successful change management
• Experience of providing clinical advice to and liaising with, managers and staff at all levels
• Understanding diversity and equality issues and how they impact on services
• Understanding of NMC Code and requirements of it for the practice & behaviour and its application to the management of staff and self
• Effective understanding of the multidisciplinary team and how the roles and team can function to maximise quality, efficiency and motivation
• Evidence of engaging in research activities

Employer details

Employer name

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Walsall

WS2 9PS

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

407-SURGERY-6505724