Are you passionate about Children, Young People, Families (CYPF) and putting individuals at the heart of everything you do? Are you an experienced, compassionate senior nurse or AHP who strives for excellence in the delivery of safe, effective and recovery focused care?

If you are we would love to hear from you and encourage an application from you for our exciting new role.

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You will work in a variety of settings across Herefordshire and Worcestershire, providing highly visible professional leadership for Nurses and AHPs, ensuring that the highest standards of clinical care for CYPF are delivered in line with national and local standards. We are developing our services to offer the best possible outcomes for the people we care for and this role will be integral to that journey.

The directorate also incorporates specialist primary care services including sexual health services and dentistry and an ability to use transferable skills to offer professional leadership and quality oversight to these teams will be required.

In return we will offer you a supportive team environment that cares for the staff working as part of it. We strive to be compassionate and kind in everything we do, and hope this creates the environment for our teams and staff to offer that kindness and compassion to the service users they work with.

Please call to discuss this fantastic opportunity.

Main duties of the job

Is a core member of the triumvirate senior leadership team and is responsible for ensuring Nurses and AHPs have the right skills, in the right place to provide the right care at the right time and are capable, confident and competent to deliver high quality service user centred care.

Is accountable and responsible for providing the professional leadership of the registered and non-registered Nursing and AHP workforce across defined services. The post holder will ensure services are appropriately resourced and able to meet all the regulatory care standards required.

Will provide senior strategic visible clinical and professional leadership, for Nursing and AHPs. Providing specialist expertise and taking specific responsibility for patient safety, quality and experience.

Will hold overall responsibility for the standard of Nursing and AHP care within the service delivery unit.

Will work with the Associate Director and Associate Medical Director to ensure that services have a clear clinical model, that staff understand their roles in relation to this, and that a system of agreed quality metrics is used to demonstrate efficacy of care delivery.

Will provide strategic and operational Nursing and AHP input to ensure appropriate advice is provided to the clinical teams so that effective, high quality, safe, recovery focussed services are delivered consistently across the services.

Interviews to be held 06/01/2025

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. Its why we were named Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year award at the 2022 Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer

27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service

Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours

Flexible and agile working opportunities

Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support

Wide range of staff networks such as LGBT+ and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage)

Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes

Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit our careers website.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Translation of current national strategy into practice
• Thorough and up to date knowledge of health professional therapy and best practice particularly within speciality areas and application to practice
• Up to date knowledge of clinical and corporate governance issues

Values & Behaviours

Essential

• Put patient care at the heart of the work you do to improve health care outcomes and service delivery
• Encourage others to develop themselves and the service through improvement, innovation and continuous development

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Compassionate and courageous leadership, motivating and inspiring others
• Ability to challenge poor behaviour and role model good behaviour
• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse or Registered Allied Health Professional with relevant
• experience
• NMC or HCPC current registration
• A range of professional qualifications in clinical practice
• Masters degree or relevant experience
• Evidence of up to date personal and continuing professional development
• Management/leadership qualification
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working and influencing at a senior level (including sub-Board level) and being operationally accountable for a team or service
• Well-developed clinical understanding in mental health and learning disabilities.
• Able to advise on and implement improvements to the quality and efficiency of care for patients in the organisation.
• Experience of achieving changed clinical practice
• Experience of effective and collaborative working across a range of clinical and service areas
• Experience of applying a range of leadership and management strategies
• Experience of leading and developing change
• Experience of partnership working, decision making, negotiation and conflict resolution

Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

2 Kings Court

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1JR

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