Associate Divisional Director of Nursing

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Main area: Renal Services

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8c

Contract: Permanent: Includes Trust on call manager duties

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Expected to work a 5 day week M-F with out of hours on call manager duties, evenings & weekends.)

Job ref: 343-6666097-RB-SK

Site: St Helier Hospital

Town: Carshalton

Salary: £80,025 - £91,336 pa Inclusive of HCAS

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 14/10/2024 23:59

At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.

Job overview

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. The post holder will also work collaboratively with the Corporate Nursing services. 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.

Car driver essential

On call manager duties essential

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.
• Lead on clinical efficiencies and service improvement programmes, thereby raising standards of practice, productivity and value for money.
• As part of the directorate senior management team, the Associate Director of Nursing will alongside the Director of Nursing to support the delivery of quality governance for the Division. They will support the improvement and strengthening of quality of care (patient safety, patient experience and clinical effectiveness) by working closely with local governance leads. A key part of the role will include ensuring the delivery of CQC standards and to work with the Director of Nursing, Director of Operations and Medical Director to move the services in the Division to a continuously improving CQC rating.
• Be a key lead professional for all nursing teams in the Division and be an advocate for patients, families and carers in the achievement of clinical excellence. Locally the post holder will lead on optimising and strengthening the role and responsibility of nurse within the Division and on nursing workforce resilience and succession planning.
• Lead by example, ensuring that leadership is visible and role models the values of the Trust and that they maintain a strong clinical presence across the Division, keeping up to date in their own field of practice.
• Lead on the delivery of excellent nursing care to ensure that local objectives align to the Trust’s nursing and midwifery strategic priorities and take a Trust lead on one or more of the corporate nursing priorities.
• Champion strong collaboration across clinical pathways and ensure the engagement of other Divisions to maintain flow across the hospital and wider local system.

Person specification

Qualifications & training

Essential criteria

• Renal course or equivalent
• 1st level degree
• Evidence of significant continuing professional and leadership development.
• Recognised teaching and assessing certificate
• Registered Nurse

Desirable criteria

• Masters degree or working toward

Experience

Essential criteria

• 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 the 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

Essential criteria

• 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 to the wider team.
• Ability to effectively manage resources to deliver sustained improvement.

Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form.

Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Disability Advice Line: SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our Confidential Disability Advice Line at:

Telephone: 02082963786

Text: 07501066267

Email: esth.dal@nhs.net.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.