Reporting directly to the Chief Executive and a key member of the Trust Board, you will play a central role underpinning our capabilities to deliver on our vision and ambitions as we start to deliver our new Trust Strategy.
We are seeking an outstanding skilled and compassionate leader with the experience and ambition to drive clinical excellence, providing visible and transformational clinical and professional leadership of nursing, clinical scientists and allied health professional staff.
The role has executive accountability for patient experience and will work closely with the Chief Medical Officer in relation to patient safety and clinical effectiveness, as well as being the executive professional lead for Infection Prevention and Control. As a member of the Board of Directors, the post holder will be responsible, with Board colleagues, for the strategic leadership, direction and development of the Trust. As part of the leadership of the Trust they will role model compassionate and collective leadership, ensuring that our Trust values are at the heart of our decision making. The Chief Nurse has Board level responsibility for the development and leadership of nurses, clinical scientists and allied health professionals, and has an overarching duty to ensure the provision of high quality patient‑centred care. The post has responsibility for these key elements:
Responsibilities
* provide nursing and clinical advice to the Board and provide professional leadership for nurses, clinical scientists and allied health professionals
* establish and ensure the delivery of quality standards for nursing care across the Trust
* as Director of Infection Prevention and Control, deliver a safe environment for patients and staff, with zero tolerance of nosocomial infections
* ensure that suitable educational and developmental activities are in place to ensure clinical excellence across the organisation
* be the Trust's Caldecott Guardian
* oversee the hospital's day‑to‑day operations in conjunction with fellow executive directors to ensure that performance targets, national standards, and regulatory requirements are met or exceeded
* provide executive sponsorship to major organisational programmes that support the implementation of the Trust's Strategy
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state‑of‑the‑art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe, the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission – a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day‑to‑day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender re‑assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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