Job overview
This post will have devolved responsibility and accountability for the professional leadership of nursing at Harefield Hospital.
The main components of the role are:
1. To work in partnership with the Clinical Group Executive to ensure that all aspects of the Clinical Group’s annual plan are achieved and there is a clear strategy for nursing workforce, service, education, andresearch
2. TocontributetotheclinicalleadershipandmanagementofthewiderTrust,workingin collaboration with the Group Senior Nursing team, ensuring that the voice of nursing is strongandeffective,andrepresentingtheClinicalGroupandthewiderTrustnationally andinternationally
3. To work with the Clinical Group Director of Nursing to ensure overall structures, processes and oversight of clinical governance and management of risk, including CQC readiness and compliance
Main duties of the job
The main components of the role are:
4. To work in partnership with the Clinical Group Executive to ensure that all aspects of the annual plan are achieved and there is a clear strategy for nursing workforce, service, education, andresearch
5. ToholddelegatedresponsibilityonbehalfoftheDirectorofNursingtoensuretheTrust fulfils its statutory duties – these portfolios will be determined on an individual basis relevant to the Clinical Group corebusiness.
6. TocontributetotheclinicalleadershipandmanagementofthewiderTrust,workingin collaboration with the Group Senior Nursing team, ensuring that the voice of nursing is strongandeffective,andrepresentingtheClinicalGroupandthewiderTrustnationally andinternationally.
7. With the Director of Nursing to ensure overall structures, processes and oversight of clinical governance and management of risk, including CQC readiness and compliance.
Working for our organisation
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy's and St Thomas' in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see documents attached (Job Description for Associate Director of Nursing - Harefield Hospital)
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
8. Registered Nurse
9. First degree
10. Relevant management qualification or equivalent senior management experience
11. Master’s degree in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
12. Additional professional development activities
13. PhD / Doctorate or equivalent experience
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
14. Experience of working at a senior nurse level in a leadership role
15. Experience of quality improvement and transformation
16. Extensive experience of managing nursing budgets and a track record of delivering financial targets
17. Experience of writing business cases and management reports to a very high standard for internal and external consumption
18. Experience at being able to identify a problem, find a solution and implement and sustain a change in clinical practice across a complex directorate/ organisation
19. Experience of analysing highly complex data and or national guidance and being able to interpret and apply it locally
Desirable criteria
20. Experience of working in an AHSC
21. Delivery of a clinical accreditation programme
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
22. Ability to articulate a clear vision for nursing
23. Ability to understand the challenges that face the nursing profession and identify possible solutions
24. Demonstrate outstanding leadership skills
25. Ability to understand the complexities of business planning
26. Ability to manage highly complex priorities
Desirable criteria
27. Project management skills
28. Presented nationally and internationally
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.