The vacancy of Deputy Director of Nursing has arisen at Whipps Cross Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust.

We are looking for a nurse leader with significant experience of nursing leadership and corporate nursing experience.

You will need to have extensive experience of workforce safeguards and professional development. Highly competent with the use of workforce roster platforms. Ability to analyse and write summary reports of workforce productivity and efficiency. Experience of developing and implementing workforce strategy.

Main duties of the job

You must have senior nurse leader experience in Emergency Medicine, have a clear understanding of patient flow within the hospital and safe patient placement in a pressured hospital.

You will also need to have good understanding of adult, children and maternity safeguards. Significant experience of managing allegations against staff with good professional understanding, clear governance process and compassionate to all parties concerned.

An informal visit is highly recommended.

The post holder will be directly managed by the Director of Nursing for Whipps Cross Hospital.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Significant nursing leadership experience at senior level.
• Evidence of senior managerial responsibilities and operational experience in an acute setting.
• Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
• Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programmes in the face of competing demands.
• Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources
• Experience in the supervision of staff and students, including HR issues.
• Experience of audit in evaluating and developing a service
• Change management experience
• Experience of close multi-professional working in an inpatient environment
• Experience of managing other professional groups.
• Manager on-call.

Desirable

• Experience in a similar role.

Skills

Essential

• Capable of critical thinking and problem solving
• Excellent communication skills and presentation skills (written and in person).
• Honed leadership through influence skills.
• Good analytical & organisational ability
• Ability to influence and facilitate MDT working.
• Awareness of developments in the NHS and service delivery
• Ability to develop or source professional development materials

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential

• First Level registered nurse (child, adult or midwife)
• Evidence of ongoing, relevant postgraduate education.
• Masters level education
• Management/Leadership qualification.

Personal and People Development

Essential

• Demonstrates a real commitment to working with, involving and consulting patients and other stakeholders in decisions about service delivery and improvement:
• Lead by example, promoting the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, integrity and probity
• High level of work organisation, self- motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
• Committed to the continuous development of staff and self.
• Decisive, using sound judgement in decision making and delivering in a timely and confident manner
• High self-awareness, understanding own emotions, strengths and limitations.

Communication

Essential

• Able to lead a multi-disciplinary team
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings
• Able to communicate with patients in an empathetic manner regarding their treatment and procedures
• Able to clarify key points from diverse and complex sets of information.
• Able to move easily between the detail and the big picture on issues in understanding and explaining the complexity of challenges and possible solutions.
• Models, and is able to encourage others in being innovative in finding ways of improving the quality of services.

Desirable

• Experienced in giving presentations to diverse audiences.

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Whipps Cross Hospital

London

E11 1NR

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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