Head of Nursing

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The Urgent Care Head of Nursing is a key position. The post holder is professionally accountable to the Group Chief Nurse / Director of Patient Safety and Quality, with a prime focus on the day to day delivery of high standards of patient centred care across integrated care pathways and services. The post holder will work closely with the Alliance Partnership Tees - Service Lead.

Main duties of the job

Working closely as a triumvirate with the Urgent Care Clinical Director and the Alliance Partnership Tees, Service Lead, the Head of Nursing is responsible for the Group's operational and strategic nursing leadership and will lead improvements in care and service delivery to support the achievement of organisational priorities to improve services for patients using our urgent care services.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Head of Nursing is responsible and accountable for the development and delivery of safe and high quality patient care across the University Hospital Tees Group - Urgent Care Services. This key role has specific responsibility for leading the development of professional nursing services ensuring that the highest standard of care is delivered, supported by a robust clinical governance framework. The Head of Nursing has a responsibility to guide and support operational teams in embedding the Trusts Patient Quality strategy.

The Head of Nursing will provide high profile, visible leadership within the Group with responsibility for ensuring that the delivery of safe and high quality patient care is underpinned by robust systems for planning, service delivery and performance management. The post holder will be working across 4 hospital sites.

The post holder will provide professional nursing leadership and appropriate line management to all of the urgent care teams and ensure professional leadership arrangements and supervision are in place for the relevant practitioners / non registered workforce.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Masters degree
• Clinical Skills qualification
• Leadership qualification
• Paediatric skills competency
• Evidence of professional development and continuous improvement in an urgent care setting

Desirable

• Project management training

Skills and Attributes

Essential

• Excellent leadership skills within an urgent care setting demonstrating the ability to motivate others
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience of performance management and delivering on key standards

Desirable

• Experience of coaching and teaching skills

Resources

Essential

• Evidence of budgetary responsibilities

Desirable

• HFMA training

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of clinical and managerial experience in an urgent care setting
• Evidence of advance clinical skills and supervising others
• Ability to respond to escalation based on demand
• Evidence of partnership working across primary and secondary care
• Evidence of leading transformational change

Desirable

• Demonstrates an understanding of high level streaming

Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrates the importance of safety practices and techniques within adults and paediatrics

Management and communication

Essential

• Evidence of business relationships both internal and external to an organisation
• Ability to manage conflict

Employer details

Employer name

North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

Address

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

Hardwick Road

Stockton-on-Tees

TS19 8PE

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