Networked Services (NWS) are excited to offer new opportunities for our Nursing & Allied Healthcare Professional (AHP) workforce working with the Divisional Associate Chief Nurse (ACN). The successful candidates will provide forward thinking clinical and professional leadership to Nurses & AHP staff at all levels within their service group, ensuring that Nursing & AHP care is delivered to a high standard and that the Nursing & AHP resource is managed effectively.
They will manage a team, providing professional and visible leadership which inspires, motivates, and involves Nurses and AHP’s across the division and wider organisation. You will deputise and support the Divisional Associate Chief Nurse with the on-going implementation of the quality strategy ensuring achievements of all its objectives and proactively modernising Nursing and AHP roles in accordance with the needs of our patients and services.
Additionally, the post holder will support the delivery of the Divisional objectives and contribute to the delivery of the overall Trust strategic objectives and achieving key performance targets.
Please note that the interview will be held on 26th March 2025.
We have the opportunity for 3 posts within the division. One full time deputy and two hybrid roles. The aim of the hybrid role’s is to allow you to retain your clinical duties part time. All three roles present an exciting opportunity to work with the Divisional Associate Chief Nurse, supporting them to provide senior management and responsibility for the professional leadership of Nursing and AHP within the division.
We are looking for confident, driven individuals with an excellent track record in leadership. They will demonstrate experience of management within a health care setting and experience of developing and implementing quality assurance measures, leading service development and leading teams at a senior level. You must be able to demonstrate advanced engagement skills with the ability to influence and negotiate with team members at all levels.
If you are passionate about patient safety and excellent patient care ensuring our cancer patients receiving high quality care, then you are the right person to consider joining the senior management team within our division.
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
Network Service Division is responsible for Protons, Radiotherapy, Clinical Oncology, Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT), Haematology, Medical Oncology, Outpatients, Pharmacy and Medical Physics & Engineering. We have a large team of Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Clinical Nurses Specialist & AHP’s working within disease groups as well as Matrons and Team Leads.
The Division has a supportive and warm working culture where your contribution is valued. You will be joining an established senior team responsible for service management and improvement with the sole objective of improving patient care and experience. Our combined resources, strategies and talented workforce enable us to deliver a wider variety of high-quality services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.
Planning and organisational duties
• Work in close association with divisional leadership team (clinical and operational), clinicians and departments to enable staff to support service delivery across the Trust.
• Contribute to the development, implementation and review of the Divisional Strategy, development and innovation priorities and strategic goals, and sets out the structures and organisational plan to achieve these goals.
• Contributes to the development, implementation, and review of the Trust’s Corporate and Divisional Objectives
• Support with the operational development, implementation and review of Trust systems and processes relating to service delivery including digital technology and IT systems.
• In collaboration with the Divisional Associate Chief Nurse, lead on workforce development & training for clinical staff within the Trust.
• Represent the Trust locally and nationally and participate in national forums and work streams.
• Contribute to the senior Trust meetings and, working with the Trust clinical staff and senior nurses/ AHP’s, promote the strategic development of nursing within the Trust.
• Represent the Division and Trust at forums or consultative groups in relation to clinical delivery services.
Patient / service user related duties
• Lead the promotion of best practice by ensuring strong leadership and an effective change management strategy, designed to enhance care of patient’s involvement.
• Act in a consultant capacity providing specialist information and support across specialties within the division.
• Work clinically as a resource and role model and to cover absence as required, ensuring a reasonable balance between need, area of expertise and own service area.
• Attend and contribute to Trust Senior meetings and ensure corporate change is implemented where appropriate.
• Works across teams to analyse, produce, provide, and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information including information on finances, performance data and HR data.
• Produces, analyses, and interprets key performance data in accordance with various internal and external performance management frameworks, and be able to produce meaningful reports for the Division.
• Can use a variety of clinical information systems within the Trust.
• Ensures effective communications and engagement with other Divisions in the Trust
• Supports in the divisional objectives relating to EDI, ensuring these programs of work are seen as a key part of divisional workplans and strategic objectives.
Responsibilities for human resources
• Provide professional leadership for service delivery staff and direct line management for Team Leaders and other staff as required.
• Ensure that appropriate line management arrangements are in place for all staff and that nurses and AHP’s are professionally accountable to suitably experienced senior staff within the Trust.
• Ensures that grievances and raising concern issues are treated appropriately and within Trust policies.
• Lead by example by ensuring your communication style reflects the values of the trust, utilising advanced communication skills, empowering, and motivating a positive culture within individuals and teams.
• Act as a role model for standards of behaviour and professionalism.
• Monitor adequate staffing levels within the Division, identifying skill mix requirements to reflect service developments and clinical need and consider innovative roles to support clinical service delivery.
• Develop a long-term strategy for nursing within the division to ensure the workforce is competent, flexible, and responsive and continues to develop.
• Lead on workforce planning (short and long term) to identify potential problems/shortfalls in skills and knowledge, and to improve capacity and capability, retention, and career development of all staff.
• Support the development of student placements across the division ensuring a good learning experience.
Responsibility for financial resources
• Manage appropriate budgets and authorise payments/signatories across the patient recruitment teams.
• Work with other members of the Senior Management team on the management, monitoring, control and reporting of the Delivery team budgets, ensuring that funding is properly managed and reported.
• Working with the teams and finance to identify and deliver value improvement programmes.
• Complete and submit business cases as required and support the delivery teams in developing these.
• Support Delivery teams to secure additional funding for staffing to deliver Services when activity is increasing.
Governance & Quality
In conjunction with the Divisional Associate Chief Nurse:
• Oversight of operational issues pertaining to service delivery at the Trust, leading and delivery on operational improvement projects as appropriate.
• Oversight of incidents within departments and ensuring dissemination and learning from reported trends and events
• Proactively identify and manage risks and issues, escalating as required through standard Trust processes.
• Ensure that confidentiality for patients and staff is maintained in all areas and that staff adhere to the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act, and the Caldicott Principles.
• Ensure all relevant Governances and quality training in completed within teams in appropriate timeframes.
• Ensure regular use of Quality management systems.
• Support with audits where appropriate and support with dissemination of learning.
• Maintain a range of communication resources to ensure all staff across the teams have access to up-to-date information about the governance and performance of the division.
• Lead on quality and governance throughout the division.
Leadership and Management
• Act as a role model and professional resource and advise as an expert practitioner in all areas of practice, to improve safe patient care, patient experience, and clinical practice.
• Work in close association with senior staff and team leaders to support consistent and effective line management to divisional staff.
• Provide professional practice supervision and coaching to staff, as required.
• Manage and advice regarding the appropriate appraisal process.
• In conjunction with the Divisional Associate Chief Nurse develop a long-term strategy for the management of the service delivery workforce across the Trust to ensure the workforce is competent, flexible, and responsive and continues to develop.
• Identify and connect all staff to ensure that the individuals and teams can work efficiently and consistently and can benefit from peer support and sharing of good practice through, regular meetings and training.
• Facilitate and enable the recruitment process for new staff, and act strategically to enable retention of staff and ensure staff wellbeing. Ensure adherence to Trust policies and procedures.
• Monitor adequate staffing levels within the Clinical Division, identifying skill mix requirements to reflect service developments and clinical need and consider innovative roles to support service delivery for the future.
• Ensure all Human Resource Key performance indicators are within agreed tolerances.
• Ensure all teams deliver activity to agreed national targets and escalate any significant issues that cause delay to appropriate leads.
• Promote the development of appraisals, mentorship, and clinical supervision within the delivery teams.
• Provide nursing and governance reports for Divisional Board and other key meetings.
• Act as divisional lead for EDI with the support of the Associate Chief nurse.
• Act as deputy for the Associate Chief nurse in their absence.
• Participate in the on call rota
Education and Research
• Lead on workforce development & training for clinical staff within the Division.
• Utilise specialist expertise and knowledge in the professional development and deployment of all clinical practitioners across the division to enable a sustained and flexible workforce to have the necessary capacity, capability, and skill to underpin the delivery of high-quality outcomes.
• Ensure Oncology is promoted as a specialism both internally and externally to local communities, schools, university programmes and to patient/ public groups.
• Foster strategic links with external stakeholders
• Be responsible for ensuring that robust systems are in place to give assurance that clinical nursing / AHP staff have completed the relevant competencies to undertake their roles.
• Develop and deliver a sustainable culture and environment that promotes effective collaboration and the achievement of continuous improvement by maintaining commitment to the goals and aims of the quality strategy and quality objectives.
• Carry out regular learning and development needs analysis for staff and direct them to appropriate opportunities.
• Lead on workforce planning (short and long term) for the workforce to identify potential problems/shortfalls in skills and knowledge, and to improve capacity and capability, retention, and career development.
• To participate in educational opportunities to all levels of nursing/AHP staff in addition to patients and the public where appropriate
• Support and provide opportunities for clinical staff to write academic papers for journals and develop abstracts for presentation at conferences.
• To be a member of relevant Committees and contribute as appropriate Information Management
This advert closes on Friday 21 Mar 2025
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