Job summary
This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.
Hours per week
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated senior nurse who can demonstrate the ability to lead and motivate staff. You will be a team player with good communication and organisational skills and clinical management experience. You will have a positive can do attitude and always striving for the best for your patients and nursing staff.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead on the expansion and delivery of the outpatient services at Redcar Primary Care Hospital across a 12-month secondment. We are looking for an enthusiastic person with the ability to think creatively about the opportunities available to maximise utilisation of the estate.
Redcar Primary Care Hospital currently delivers outpatient services across a number of specialities, including gastroenterology, orthopaedics, pain management, geriatric medicine and others, with the potential to deliver more.
The post-holder will use their clinical expertise and ability to engage with clinical and non-clinical colleagues across multiple specialities to recommend and implement changes which would expand service provision at the site.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:
1. Explore leadership within the NHS
2. Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
3. Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
4. Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Details of the full job description and person specification are available to view when you click to apply for the vacancy and click on the about this job link and the documents will be attached at the bottom of the screen.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
5. Proven and demonstrated leadership skills
6. Sound analytical and problem-solving skills
7. Evidence of advanced interpersonal and communication skills including written and verbal
8. Collaborative skills
9. Self-motivating
10. Ability to extract information from data.
11. Demonstrates experience in management of full range of skills in terms of people, budget, time, facilities and equipment.
12. Decision making and judgement skills
13. Ability to foresee implications of decisions and impact on other services.
14. Awareness of relationships between department.
15. Ability to work flexibly in a changing environment.
Desirable
16. IT and presentation skills
17. Audit skills
Personal Attributes
Essential
18. Confident and persuasive
19. Excellent team player and role model
20. Ability to work flexibly
Experience
Essential
21. Experience of presenting and using information to improve service delivery
22. Experience of working in healthcare at management level or equivalent transferrable skills
23. Experience of delivering and monitoring a range of key performance indicators ( access targets)
24. Experience of budgetary management.
25. Experience in managing staff, implementing HR policies and procedures and dealing with difficult HR issues ( disciplinary).
26. Experience leading on patient safety and risk management.
Desirable
27. Experience of using a range of service improvement methodologies.
28. Proven project management skills
Qualifications
Essential
29. NMC Registration
30. Educated to relevant 1st degree level or equivalent.
31. Post graduate diploma or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Desirable
32. Masters level management qualification or equivalent
33. Change Management Qualification