Job Title: Director of AHP and Nursing

Division: Divisional

Care Group: Cancer and Core Clinical Services

Band: 8d

Salary: �88,168 - �101,677 per annum

Interview Date: 26th/17th September 2024

We are recruiting for a Director of AHP and Nursing who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Please note this post is subject to an open consultation, therefore this could result in this post being no longer available. In this instance, candidates will be informed prior to the interview stage.

Main duties of the job

The Director of AHP and Nursing is managerially and professionally accountable for the leadership and clinical effectiveness of all nurses and AHPs across a variety of clinical settings within the Division. Providing effective clinical leadership in ensuring that the nursing and AHP agenda is clearly part of the Divisional Triumvirate Team decision making, service developments and contributes to both the local Division and Trust strategic objectives including quality initiatives and targets.

The Director of AHP and Nursing is the divisional lead for Quality Governance and Risk Management, ensuring processes are in place for monitoring, management and analysis of incident reporting at divisional level in addition will be the divisional lead for complaints and patient experience ensuring patients and users of the services are given the opportunity to feedback on their experiences and to be involved in service development and redesign.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

About us

At Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Director of AHP and Nursing will lead, inspire and develop the AHP and nursing workforce within the Division to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care that meets the needs of the patient. Ensuring the Division has a comprehensive, progressive and sufficiently robust systems of internal control in place to implement and monitor the Patient First Strategy, so as to ensure the Trust consistently delivers on its vision of exceptional healthcare, personally delivered, are established and working effectively from ward to Board.

The Director of AHP and Nursing will support the Chief Nursing Officer with the delivery of a wider corporate AHP and nursing and quality agenda including (but not limited too) patient safety, patient experience, improved outcomes and the delivery of the Trusts Patient First Strategy for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (AHP) which will strengthen the nursing and AHP voices and secure the workforce of the future.

With the Chief Operating Officer and the Divisional Triumvirate Team the Director of AHP and Nursing will have shared accountability for the operational performance and strategic development of their Division.

The Director of AHP and Nursing will ensure ongoing compliance with the Care Quality Commissions regulations and that the fundamentals of care standards are delivered effectively within the Division and that competence in clinical practice is both maintained and developed in order to maximise the patient experience as well as the safety and quality of service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered and practising nurse with current live HCPC or NMC registration.
• Degree in relevant clinical or nursing subject
• Masters Degree in relevant subject or equivelant level of experience, supplemented further by evidence of continuing professional
• evidence of comprehensive continuing personal and professional development

Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to analyse complex and sensitive problems and to develop and successfully implement practical and workable solutions to address them.
• High-level problem-solving approach, proactive and resourceful, professional, negotiation, interpersonal, administrative, analytical, advocacy, training and counselling skills.
• Ability to develop strategic priorities and to organise staff and resources to achieve high quality patient care and delivery of health care targets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people and professionals, policy, guidance, board and other reports.

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable previous success in leading and delivering significant change and performance with and through multiple and diverse clinical teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
• Experience of managing care group-wide operational teams, targets and budgets.
• Experience in providing advice on complex professional issues to the executive/non- executive team and all other levels of the organisation, external agencies and stakeholders e.g. NHSi/e, CCG etc.
• Experience of leading on significant change management project across an organisation

Skills

Essential

• Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
• Excellent inter-personal skills with the ability to positively interact in difficult, highly emotive and potentially hostile situations, including to distressed and or large groups of people in a politically aware and sensitive manner
• Advanced planning and organisational skills - able to lead/organise multiple projects ensuring timely delivery of goals and milestones. Ability to use relevant software packages utilising standard keyboard skills
• Ability to interpret overall health service policy and strategy in order to establish goals and standards

Employer details

Employer name

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Medway Maritime Hospital

Windmill Road

Gillingham

ME7 5NY

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