• The Site Deputy Chief Nursing Officer (DCNO) is required to work at pace to support the Site Nursing and Medical Leadership Team and regularly interact with healthcare professionals and patients.
• As an integral part of the professional nursing senior leadership team the postholder will work proactively with senior colleagues to provide professional leadership and support operational delivery of services at Site with strategic oversight and support from a lead at Group.
• They are responsible for supporting the Site CNO with overseeing and coordinating the hospital's nursing and AHP workforce and its daily operations.
• Together the Site DCNO and Site CNO's primary focus is on Site leadership for day to day operational issues and the provision of support to Group Corporate Functions, Site Nursing and Medical Leadership and Site clinical divisions.
• Together with the Site CNO they are responsible by working in partnership with Group colleagues for the delivery of all nursing strategies with reference to 12 service functions which will be managed and overseen at Group.

Main duties of the job

• Led by the Site CNO, the DCNO and Site Nursing Teams are responsible for day to day quality and safety on site, alongside the Site Chief Medical Officer (CMO).
• The Site DCNO and nursing/AHP teams are accountable for operational service delivery on Site in conjunction with the COO and CMO as directed by the Managing Director.
• In addition to site-based focus and leadership the Site DCNO will support the Site CNO in their professional leadership and operational responsibility for a group wide function (as agreed with Site CNO colleagues and delegated by the GCNO).
• They will support the strategic oversight of this function with additional support from a Group lead in coordination and delivery.
• The Site Deputy CNO together with the Site CNO also holds responsibility for patient experience on the Site.
• The Site Deputy CNO will support the Site CNO and work in partnership with Group to provide collective leadership of Professional Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Healthcare Professionals in all 12 Corporate Nursing Functions.

About us

After many years of collaboration and creating closer working ties, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust formed a hospital group and appointed a Group Chief Executive in August 2021 (following the appointment of a Chairman in Common in 2019) and a single executive team in January 2022.

Working as a hospital group under one executive leadership team allows for more joined up decision making for local people, a larger and more resilient clinical workforce, reduced variation in care and access to a wider range of services for our patients.

The Group Chief Nurse (GCNO) and Group Chief Medical Officer (CMO) are the Executive Directors jointly accountable to the Trust Boards for the delivery of the quality and safety agenda, including patient experience.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse

Desirable

• Management Qualification

Experience

Essential

• Relevant senior Nurse management experience within a Health care environment. Recent experience at a divisional management level or equivalent.
• ideally recent and or should be at Divisional management level or equivalent.

Desirable

• Previous experience in a Corporate Role

Skills

Essential

• Committed to improving patient care and raising clinical and professional standards

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Georges Hospital

Blackshaw Road

Tooting

SW17 0QT

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