Associate Divisional Director of Nursing

Associate Divisional Director of Nursing

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Renal trained Nurse with senior leadership experience to join this well-established team at the South West Thames, Renal & Transplant Centre. The service is a Renal Tertiary service supporting SW London and Surrey. It consists of inpatient, outpatient, Home therapies and supports 9 Dialysis units across Surrey.

The post holder will work collaboratively with the Director of Nursing to provide high quality, strategic, professional and visible nursing leadership. Advising and supporting on Divisional Nursing issues across the service will be a main requirement of the role. Experience of managing workforce and budget is essential to this role, as is the ability to be responsive to the ever-changing NHS landscape.

The Renal service is currently planning for future integration with Renal colleagues at St Georges, with an exciting new building on the St George's site. The role will require the ability to lead, manage and support change and the vision to design patient pathways to achieve excellent, high-quality pathways for our patient population. The ability to work across and at off-site services is essential where services cover a large geographical area.

Main duties of the job

Work with the Director of Nursing and Divisional Medical Directors to meet the division's key performance targets, leading effective and efficient delivery operational and clinical services with particular emphasis on effective clinical care, as well as implementing the strategic, financial and operational plans and efficiently deploying the resources of the Directorate.

Job responsibilities

• Lead on clinical efficiencies and service improvement programmes, thereby raising standards of practice, productivity and value for money.
• Support the delivery of quality governance for the Division, ensuring the improvement and strengthening of quality of care (patient safety, patient experience and clinical effectiveness).
• Ensure the delivery of CQC standards and work with the Director of Nursing, Director of Operations and Medical Director to improve CQC ratings.
• Be a key lead professional for all nursing teams in the Division and advocate for patients, families and carers in achieving clinical excellence.
• Lead by example, ensuring visible leadership and maintaining a strong clinical presence across the Division.
• Champion strong collaboration across clinical pathways and ensure engagement of other Divisions to maintain flow across the hospital and wider local system.

Person Specification

Qualifications & training

• Renal course or equivalent
• Evidence of significant continuing professional and leadership development.
• Recognised teaching and assessing certificate
• Registered Nurse
• Masters degree or working toward

Experience

• Substantial Renal experience at Senior level
• Substantial experience and achievement in a senior clinical nursing role.
• Substantial experience & understanding the delivery of Quality & safety in clinical areas, including identifying and managing risk.
• Substantial experience of managing workforce and budget.
• Evidence of delivering complex change, involving wide engagement.
• Demonstrable experience of people management including experience of chairing capability / disciplinary hearings.

Knowledge & skills

• Ability to demonstrate expert clinical knowledge.
• Significant budgetary experience and demonstrable experience of achieving financial savings without compromising clinical care.
• Ability to analyse complex information and provide a range of options to share information with the wider team.
• Ability to effectively manage resources to deliver sustained improvement.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Salary: £80,025 to £91,336 a year inclusive of HCAS.