An exciting opportunity has arisen for the appointment of a highly experienced and credible senior leader across UHL and UHN.
As the Group Associate Chief Nurse – Urgent and Emergency Care youwill lead as part of the Urgent and Emergency Group Senior Leadership Team. The Group Associate Chief Nurse will be responsible for providing strong and effective strategic and clinical leadership, improving and sustaining clinical practices and standards across all services and for all aspects of patient safety within the Urgent and Emergency Care Group. The post holder will support the professional development of nurses, and AHPs at all levels and will champion and embed a culture of quality improvement, effective clinical governance, and great patient experience.
The post holder will be responsible for decision making where practice or service delivery issues require speciality leadership ensuring a focus upon quality, safety and operational leadership. The post holder will work in collaboration with internal and external system partners to set out the Trusts strategic aims and deliver the operational priorities in relation to safe patient placement, timely flow, site management and emergency planning.
If you are a Registered Nurse with substantial leadership experience and a drive to ensure patient care is at the forefront of all we do; and you have a commitment to ensuring colleagues are supported and enabled to achieve the best outcomes for patients we are keen to hear from you
• Provides overall leadership of the clinical services within the Urgent and Emergency Care services by formulating long term strategic plans, which may involve uncertainty and could have an impact across the whole organisation.
• Responsibility for the delivery of safe and clinically effective care across the urgent and emergency care pathways providing assurance and evidence in this regard to Chief Nurse and Chief Operating Officer (COO).
• Provides advice, guidance and direction to other senior clinical and managerial colleagues on a range of matters as required and acts as a source of expert advice in relation to nursing within Urgent and Emergency care services.
• Develops mechanisms to enable Matrons to develop and strengthen their leadership and management skills to meet the responsibilities of their roles.
• Actively works to support and empower Sisters/Charge Nurses to develop and utilise their clinical leadership skills. Enabling them to assume appropriate levels of authority to undertake their role effectively; and to support and develop the leadership within their departments and teams
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
• As a highly experienced and credible senior nurse the Group Associate Chief Nurse will lead urgent and emergency care services across the group and system. They will work as part of the Urgent and Emergency Senior Leadership Teams and corporate nursing team.
• The Group Associate Chief Nurse will be responsible for providing strong and effective strategic and clinical leadership, improving and sustaining clinical practices and standards across all services and for all aspects of patient safety within the Urgent and Emergency Care Group.
• The post holder will support the professional development of nurses, and AHPs at all levels and will champion and embed a culture of quality improvement, effective clinical governance, and great patient experience.
• The Group Associate Chief Nurse – Urgent and Emergency Care is a senior leader with extensive experience of managing acute patient flow, site management and emergency planning (EPRR).
• The post holder is responsible for decision making where practice or service delivery issues require specialty leadership. They ensure service delivery focusing upon quality, safety and operational leadership with a clear focus on the development and sustainability of services both from a safety, quality, outcomes and experience perspective with a clear drive; and with an understanding and drive to support service change, delivery and transformation.
• The post holder works in collaboration with internal and external system partners to set out the Trusts strategic aims and deliver the operational priorities in relation to safe patient placement, timely flow, site management and emergency planning within the Urgent and Emergency Care services.
• Alongside the Urgent and Emergency Care Senior Leadership Teams the Group Associate Chief Nurse will have responsibility for the delivery of safe, clinically and cost effective and compassionate nursing care within the Urgent and Emergency Services across the group providing assurance and evidence to the Chief Nurse/Chief Operating Officer/Medical Director regarding compliance against all professional, organisational and national compliance standards, and especially in respect of Emergency Flow Improvement.
• The Group Associate Chief Nurse leads performance monitoring of clinical care quality, safety, and experience across within the Urgent and Emergency Care services and as needed within the wider services ensuring objectives and targets are achieved.
• The post holder leads specific nursing and AHP practice and system development initiatives, including clinical indicators/metrics, nurse staffing, and workforce development.
• Leads quality improvement projects relating to urgent and emergency care across the organisations, analysing and interpreting highly complex data and making recommendations to the Urgent and Emergency Care Senior Leadership Teams within the Trusts and ICS as required.
• Contributes to the development and application of risk management systems, control processes, and governance arrangements.
• Ensures compliance with internal and external governance and best practice requirements, including statutory regulations.
• Reviews and manages serious nursing and AHP clinical complaints and incidents involving service users, carers and/or employees including those which are contentious, traumatic and/or highly sensitive or where there are significant barriers to understanding within the Urgent and Emergency Care services.
• The post holder is responsible for ensuring appropriate systems are in place to evidence on-going compliance with local and national policies as required for CQC standards.
• The post holder will ensure that nursing and AHP practice is delivered in a manner consistent with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and HPC codes. Liaises with the NMC/ HCPC on nursing and AHP conduct issues and provide advice to nurses and AHP’s on complex regulatory cases.
• The post holder is pivotal to ensuring safe, timely and compassionate care.
• The post holder is expected to demonstrate a highly visible authoritative, compassionate and transformational leadership style which is underpinned by the Trust value and is the professional lead within the CMG for all matters relating to nursing care and provides expert advice to the leadership teams and Chief Nurse on matters relating to nursing care within the Urgent and Emergency Care services and wider where needed.
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This advert closes on Monday 30 Sep 2024