Head of Nursing
The Head of Nursing is a key member of the nursing management team working closely with the Divisional Director of Nursing for Surgery and St Mark's Hospital. As Head of Nursing, the post holder will provide leadership, facilitation, and operational direction to all nurses within St Marks Hospital, ensuring this reflects the changing needs of the wider Division and the organisation. Through professional leadership the post holder is responsible for providing patient focused services.
The role will support the Division in providing cross-site (NPH, Ealing and CMH) leadership but will mainly be based at Central Middlesex Hospital.
Key responsibilities:
* Ensure an effective, efficient, high-quality service is delivered by competent, motivated nursing staff.
* Demonstrate clinical credibility and act as a role model in the delivery of patient care.
* Hold line reports to account for improving standards and delivery of their objectives in their clinical areas.
* Monitor and assess clinical areas against CQC standards and key lines of enquiry, ensuring appropriate timely action if improvement is required.
* Act as a clinical expert within the Division.
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
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