Interview Date: Friday 27th September 2024

A unique and exciting opportunity for an exceptional nurse leader!

The Integrated Care and Community Division is seeking a Divisional Director of Nursing with a passion and commitment to integrated care. The Division is responsible for adult community services in Swindon along with two Primary Care practices, an intermediate care unit, cancer services, palliative care and outpatient's services at Great Western Hospital and we're working with our system partners to integrate care and deliver the very best care for our patients.

This is a unique role where you have the opportunity to ensure the community, primary and secondary nursing workforce work collaboratively to improve patient outcomes and experience. Our Trust is ideally placed to build a workforce that offers attractive, fulfilling and flexible careers, and you will lead, inspire and create a culture of innovation and willingness to create new ways of working.

Main duties of the job

We have exciting developments in all our services to ensure the expertise and expanded role of the community nurse is maximised in planning and decision-making. Supported by experienced and dedicated Heads of Nursing you will lead and promote new roles from Advanced Clinical Practitioners to Nurse Associates across secondary and community care developing patient centred pathways that create capacity and promote health and wellbeing.

As a division we are innovative with a can do reputation and you will build on this profile celebrating successes such as our Urgent Community Response, Hospital at Home and End Of Life Care Teams to continue to influence decision-makers, colleagues and system partners.

You won't be doing this alone. You'll be part of a fantastic senior leadership team, divisional triumvirate and will work increasingly closely with partners to build capacity within the Integrated Care System. You will also be a member of the Trust senior nursing team working alongside the Chief Nurse to drive and lead improvements in the standards of care Trust wide.

Roles like this, with real potential to shape local care delivery and directly impact upon the care patients receive across primary, secondary, and community settings, don't come around very often. We're therefore looking for an experienced, passionate and compassionate senior nurse leader to support our transformation strategy to better integrate care.

About us

To do this you'll need to provide strategic influence in service planning, future workforce and quality and safety initiatives. Working in partnership you will bring focus to population health and wellbeing, optimize digital innovation and work to improve patient outcomes, experience and access.

You'll be joining a great team in a great place, where your commitment will be genuinely valued, your skills respected, and your ambition rewarded.

For Further information or to arrange an informal visit please contactPaul Devenish (Associate Medical Director) and/or Helen Mee (Divisional Director)

Email: paul.devenish@nhs.net & /or helenmee@nhs.net

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Divisional Director of Nursing is responsible for the effectiveness of professional leadership and development of nursing within the Division and other allocated areas in order to facilitate the delivery of excellent clinical practice. The post holder may hold delegated responsibility for areas of practice from the Chief Nurse.

Please see the full Job description attached

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife or Registered Nurse with the Nursing & Midwifery Council
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to masters level or equivalent
• Demonstrates evidence of on-going continuous professional development.

Desirable

• Management qualification - NEBs, CMS, DMS etc. Some form of management qualification is highly desirable

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of senior nursing and/or midwifery leadership and management experience.
• Evidence of clinical management experience.
• Experience of managing a range of departments which includes managing workforce, operational delivery, finance management.
• Experience in delivering quality improvement projects with defined outcomes
• Demonstrable experience of achieving changed clinical practice and improving services to increase quality and efficiency.
• Experience of working at and influencing at a senior level.
• Experience of developing collaborative working within teams.
• Thorough understanding of equality & diversity and its application to managing self, staff and patients across the Trust.
• Understanding of NMC Code of practice and requirements of it for the practice & behaviour and its application to the management of staff and self.
• Proven experience of budgetary/financial management.
• Proven track record in co-design and production

Desirable

• Experience of developing business cases / business planning
• Track record of serving on a range of committees both internal and external to the organisation
• Project management experience.
• Evidence of community experience in leadership or clinical role

Employer details

Employer name

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Orbital Office

1st floor, North Swindon District Centre, Thamesdown Drive,

Swindon

SN25 4AN

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