Main Responsibilities and Duties: Leadership, professional standards and accountability- Ensure that patient care is delivered wi.....
Main Responsibilities and Duties: Leadership, professional standards and accountability- Ensure that patient care is delivered with care and compassion to a high standard, to ensure a positive patient experience and achievement of clinical quality standards as measured through the collection and use of relevant clinical indicators and High Impact Intervention audits.- Work to fully implement ANCC Pathway to Excellence within delegated areas of authority, ensuring successful delivery of the Trusts application and maintenance of status.- Maintain a highly visible leadership profile, undertaking quality rounds and being proactive about engaging with service areas and patients where required.- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive information where there are barriers or difficulties to understanding or accepting the information: present complex information or contentious information to large groups where there may be significant barriers to acceptance, hostility or antagonism and in situations where emotions are high.- Contribute to the development of a strong and effective senior team within the Division.- Ensure that nursing and care staff are suitably qualified and competent and maintain professional registration in order to deliver safe quality patient care.- Ensure safe standards of nursing care of the highest quality are consistently delivered ensuring that all services comply with the requirements of the equality and diversity agenda, including impact assessments.- Ensure NMC and/or HCPC standards are consistently delivered against.- Lead the development of strong and effective clinical teams within all areas of responsibility across the Division.- Create an environment in which nursing and care staff feel properly valued and can practice and deliver their practice with confidence.- Ensure standards of training and mentorship for students are consistent with the requirements of the profession and that the links with the university are robust.- Lead and initiate the regular audit of the standards of patient care and ensure that any issues highlighted are regularly reported to the Director of Quality and Chief Nurse and appropriate quality groups.- Lead work on the extended scope of practice and multi-disciplinary working and evidence-based practice; ensuring education needs are appropriately identified and met.- Facilitate the delivery of all development projects within the roles remit including the implementation of the patient experience strategy.- Ensure that the services patients receive are appropriate, accessible when they need them and are delivered in a manner that respects their privacy, dignity and individuality.- Advise and appraise the Director of Quality and Chief Nurse of professional nursing and care issues within the Division.- Provide on-going support to the Director of Quality and Chief Nurse and Senior team representing them at meetings, internal and external to the Trust, as and when required.- Network locally, regionally and nationally to share best practice and benchmark services.- Ensure that nursing resource decisions within the Division have been taken with full professional advice and input to ensure that patient quality/ safety/ experience are not compromised.- Ensure public and patient involvement in the wider work of the Division.- Developing policies, both locally and cross divisionally, to support clinical care and practice, and ensuring the implementation of policies across the service. Performance management- With the divisional management team develop and ensure a culture of performance management, improvement and appraisal as a foundation for excellent organisational performance.- In partnership with the quality team and the Gloucestershire Quality and Safety Improvement Academy, lead on the implementation and development of programmes to measure the quality of services provided.- Benchmark best practice across the Trust and within the Division and adopt practice to best suit patients needs and ensure audit and improvement programmes are delivered anSd research activity supported.- Actively contribute to the Divisional and corporate performance management framework ensuring delivery of locally/corporately determined performance management targets and standards. Service improvement and Research development- Co-develop the divisional Business Plans, as appropriate ensuring that patient involvement contributes to the shape and expectations of the Divisions business plans, taking into account service needs, workforce planning, estate issues, financial constraints, commissioners priorities in terms of contracts, quality targets. Therefore, formulating longer term strategic plans with may involve uncertainty and which may impact cross-divisionally.- Support the Director of Quality and Chief Nurse with the delivery of a wider corporate nursing agenda including the development and implementation of an innovative strategy for nursing and midwifery to strengthen the nursing voice and to secure the workforce of the future.- Undertake delegated corporate, trust-wide lead for delivery of aspects of the nursing agenda as directed by the Director of Quality and Chief Nurse, Deputy Chief Nurse and Deputy Director of Quality. Operational planning and service delivery- Through the implementation performance management arrangements ensure objectives are cascaded and delivered through each nursing team meeting corporate targets for budget management, patient activity, infection prevention and control and quality standards.- Ensure the quality, standard and range of care provided is consistently optimised within the available resources and in line with contract requirements.- Through the provision of nursing input assist the division with the production of Specialty Business Plans and Service Specifications- Identify and provide organisational support to clinical teams and support teams enabling each to access resources efficiently and effectively.- Provide operational day to day management and leadership to senior nursing staff within the Division (Senior Matrons, Matrons and CNS). People management and development- Ensure and monitor the utilisation of the optimum use of staff to deliver safe quality patient care within agreed expenditure targets and agree with specialist staff the appropriate use of overtime, locum, Bank and Agency cover.- In consultation and under the direction of the Deputy Chief Nurse and the Deputy Director for People and Organisational Development, develop a workforce plan to include competencies required and availability of experienced staff that meets the Trust requirements and is in line with professional developments in nursing.- Improve and continually maintain staff morale by effective communication, leadership, optimism and consultation within the Division and with other services, as appropriate and in situations where the subject is highly complex and as in investigations of practice could be hostile, antagonistic or highly contentious.- Develop with the Chief of Service and Director of Operations a flexible workforce in line with national requirements capable of adapting to peaks and troughs in activity where appropriate across the Trust.- Ensure that specialties and departments benefit from the application of effective HR policies, procedures and practices for all staff, e.g., recruitment and selection, employee relations, absence management.- Ensure Individual Performance Review is cascaded to all nursing staff and providing forums for objective setting, performance review and Continuing Professional Development.- Ensure access to training and development programmes to realise the capabilities and fullest possible contribution of all staff taking into consideration the future demands upon the medical profession and other professions allied to medicine- Ensure effective arrangements for the conduct of employee relations and the maintenance and on-going improvement of communications throughout the Trust. Working collaboratively with trade unions and other external stakeholders Finance and performance management- Oversee the nursing and other clinical budgets for staff groups under professional responsibility and manage directly budgets for staff directly reporting to post holder.- Take a lead in developing Senior Nurses budgetary skills to promote ownership and delivery of local responsibilities.- Represent the needs of nursing and patient care in the business and service planning cycle and the transformation work streams and reconcile these with the needs of the service.- Promote and ensure the effective use of bank and agency nursing staff within the cluster, meeting the need to provide safe nursing standards within agreed financial targets. Promote timely and accurate feedback to the Divisional Director. - Ensure the availability to the divisional team of relevant strands of information relating to general nursing performance, contract activity and quality, and participate in agreeing strategies responding to trends.- With the Chief of Service and Director of Operations lead the effective delivery of cost improvement programmes, ensuring sufficient oversight of the quality impact assessment process. Information management and research- Encourage and facilitate audit and research as required, ensure findings are disseminated appropriately and recommendations implemented and reviewed as part of a comprehensive governance framework.- Lead and participate in the development of both Trust-wide NursingFor further information about the opportunity, please contact: Name: Margaret CoyleJob Title: Chief of Service, Surgery (PA Judith Pennycooke)Phone Number: 0300 422 5177Email address: margaret.coyle2@nhs.net judith.pennycooke@nhs.net Interview: Thursday 11th April 2024
