Job summary Exciting Leadership Opportunity Lead Nurse, Medical Care Group, JerseyAre you an experienced and ambitious Senior Nurse ready to take the next big step in your career? Do you have the drive, vision, and leadership skills to shape the future of healthcare in a progressive and dynamic environment? If so, we want to hear from you This is an exceptional, permanent opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced nursing leader to play a pivotal role in our Medical Care Group based in Jersey.As Lead Nurse, you will be at the forefront of clinical excellence, ensuring the highest standards of patient care while driving innovation and collaboration. Reporting directly to the Chief of Service, you will be a key part of our leadership team, working alongside senior stakeholders to shape the future of healthcare. Your contributions will directly impact patient outcomes, staff development, and service excellence. Main duties of the job What You'll Be Doing: Lead with Impact Oversee clinical governance, ensuring safe, high-quality, and effective patient care. Shape the Future Contribute to strategic planning, policy-making, and service development. Inspire and Empower Drive workforce leadership, fostering a culture of innovation, teamwork, and continuous improvement. Collaborate at the Highest Level Work closely with General Managers, Clinical Directors, and senior healthcare leaders to deliver outstanding care. Be a Key Decision-Maker Participate in the organisations senior manager on-call rota. Who Were Looking For: We need an inspiring and forward-thinking nurse leader who is ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role. You'll bring: Proven leadership experience at a senior level within nursing. Strong clinical governance expertise and a track record of driving quality improvement. Strategic vision with the ability to influence and lead change in a complex healthcare setting. A passion for excellence in patient care and service delivery. Exceptional communication and leadership skills to motivate teams and drive results. If you're a dedicated, strategic, and passionate nursing leader looking for a career-defining opportunity, apply today. About us We want you to be your best, and we know that to achieve this we need to support the whole you. Thats why our offer is much more than pay and pension.A career with the Jersey Public Service comes with a range of benefits, as well as offering the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the lives of Islanders. When you join us, youre stepping into a role where your work makes a real difference - and where youll be recognised, supported, and empowered along the way.We offer various benefits and initiatives designed to help you grow, thrive, and balance your personal and professional life, which reflects our commitment to being an extraordinary place to build your career. Date posted 03 April 2025 Pay scheme Other Salary £81,950.59 to £92,314.64 a year Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time Reference number K0011-1954 Job locations Government Of Jersey Union Street St. Helier Jersey JE2 3DN Job description Job responsibilities Statutory Responsibilities Active engagement, participation and compliance with any other statutory responsibilities applicable to the role, as amended from time to time. This role is politically restricted. The jobholder is not permitted to undertake political activity involving standing for election to the States or as a Parish Constable, or publicly supporting someone who is standing for election or playing a public part in any political manner. Planning & Organisation Planning skills required to align service provision with staff resource, considering large variability in patterns of working, such as rotas. Ability to adapt or direct resource as required to fulfil service needs which are liable to constant fluctuation with service pressures. Organisational planning to enable a smooth transfer for service users across areas and engagement in multi-agency inputs. Lead regular operational meetings to ensure service delivery to all areas of care group and reduce areas of clinical and non-clinical risk, responding appropriately to changing organisational demands and priorities. Ability to be responsive to changing organisational demands and priorities. People Management The post holder will be responsible for up to 300 staff. Manages staff in accordance with HR policies and procedures and will support staff to select and appoint with the necessary skills, and values. Co-ordinate staff development and use the appraisal, performance review and revalidation to continually improve performance. Ensure all team are registered with the NMC, Jersey and able to maintain their registration through NMC revalidation. Ensure that mandatory and statutory training is in place for staff in matters relating to infection prevention and control and that compliance is monitored. Ensure that team mandatory and statutory requirements are met. Job Specific Outcomes Responsibility for the delivery of the nursing and midwifery strategy across the nursing services. Operational responsibility to be able to deliver the high standard of clinical care and modernisation of services. Manage human and material resources within their designated area and be responsible for ensuring nursing and midwifery meet cost targets that are part of a larger budget held at Head of Service level, to ensure financial sustainability within the care group. Responsible for the staff governance arrangements in relation to professional regulation, supervision, and revalidation, ensuring a workforce that is fit to practice. Performance manage direct reports, and enable personal and professional development that underpins the strategic direction of the organisation and ensures effective delivery of high quality care. Maintain and enhance standards of patient care through the implementation of continuous quality improvement initiatives, regular service evaluation and developments that involve patients/users of the service. Provide day to day professional leadership and management of the nursing and midwifery workforce to ensure efficient and effective use of nursing manpower, patient outcomes, patient experience and patient safety is mitigated. Provide clinical advice and expertise to peers, patients and management to ensure that best practice is promoted and delivered in order to reduce the risk to patients and that the safety of the patient journey is maximised. Communicate national and local policies and initiatives that impact on patient and nursing care including polices, guidelines and competencies and implement these to ensure practice remains contemporary and within guidelines Provide specialist nursing or midwifery input to the Head of Care Group, Head of Profession and other key managers to enable them to progress service development, business planning and service delivery Work as a member of the multi-professional health and care teams in furthering the clinical governance programme, ensuring safe and auditable practice. Job description Job responsibilities Statutory Responsibilities Active engagement, participation and compliance with any other statutory responsibilities applicable to the role, as amended from time to time. This role is politically restricted. The jobholder is not permitted to undertake political activity involving standing for election to the States or as a Parish Constable, or publicly supporting someone who is standing for election or playing a public part in any political manner. Planning & Organisation Planning skills required to align service provision with staff resource, considering large variability in patterns of working, such as rotas. Ability to adapt or direct resource as required to fulfil service needs which are liable to constant fluctuation with service pressures. Organisational planning to enable a smooth transfer for service users across areas and engagement in multi-agency inputs. Lead regular operational meetings to ensure service delivery to all areas of care group and reduce areas of clinical and non-clinical risk, responding appropriately to changing organisational demands and priorities. Ability to be responsive to changing organisational demands and priorities. People Management The post holder will be responsible for up to 300 staff. Manages staff in accordance with HR policies and procedures and will support staff to select and appoint with the necessary skills, and values. Co-ordinate staff development and use the appraisal, performance review and revalidation to continually improve performance. Ensure all team are registered with the NMC, Jersey and able to maintain their registration through NMC revalidation. Ensure that mandatory and statutory training is in place for staff in matters relating to infection prevention and control and that compliance is monitored. Ensure that team mandatory and statutory requirements are met. Job Specific Outcomes Responsibility for the delivery of the nursing and midwifery strategy across the nursing services. Operational responsibility to be able to deliver the high standard of clinical care and modernisation of services. Manage human and material resources within their designated area and be responsible for ensuring nursing and midwifery meet cost targets that are part of a larger budget held at Head of Service level, to ensure financial sustainability within the care group. Responsible for the staff governance arrangements in relation to professional regulation, supervision, and revalidation, ensuring a workforce that is fit to practice. Performance manage direct reports, and enable personal and professional development that underpins the strategic direction of the organisation and ensures effective delivery of high quality care. Maintain and enhance standards of patient care through the implementation of continuous quality improvement initiatives, regular service evaluation and developments that involve patients/users of the service. Provide day to day professional leadership and management of the nursing and midwifery workforce to ensure efficient and effective use of nursing manpower, patient outcomes, patient experience and patient safety is mitigated. Provide clinical advice and expertise to peers, patients and management to ensure that best practice is promoted and delivered in order to reduce the risk to patients and that the safety of the patient journey is maximised. Communicate national and local policies and initiatives that impact on patient and nursing care including polices, guidelines and competencies and implement these to ensure practice remains contemporary and within guidelines Provide specialist nursing or midwifery input to the Head of Care Group, Head of Profession and other key managers to enable them to progress service development, business planning and service delivery Work as a member of the multi-professional health and care teams in furthering the clinical governance programme, ensuring safe and auditable practice. Person Specification Experience Essential Knowledge - Budget Management - Active engagement in clinical supervision - Advanced clinical knowledge and skills - Knowledge of quality and governance agenda - Expert practitioner in area of nursing / midwifery - Understanding of NMC Code of Practice and requirements of it for the practice and behaviour of staff and self, and the midwives rules - Highly developed specialist knowledge of nursing procedures underpinned by theory and experience. - Candidates must display expert level knowledge of the Governance and Risk frameworks required to underpin the delivery of safe patient care Technical Work Based Skills - Strategic awareness in service development - Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite General skills / attributes - Ability to present effectively both verbally and in writing - High level interpersonal and influencing skills Experience - Experience in undertaking research and applying to practice - Significant post qualification working experience in order to have developed consolidated practice to lead the staff teams. - Experience of working in an autonomous nursing/midwifery role. - Experience of working at a senior clinical level within a managerial role. - Demonstrable experience of managing change effectively. - Significant management, human resource and operational experience. - Experience of designing and delivering training to colleagues at all levels Communication and Relationships - The post holder will receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to individuals - patients, families and staff. Needs to be able to display empathy especially at times of distress and will be required to impart same information to others in an appropriate way. - - The post holder needs to be able to effectively counsel and support colleagues at times of difficulty, distress or challenge in order to ensure continued delivery of safe services. Communicate effectively with key stakeholders this will require the post holder to have highly competent skills in negotiation, motivation, persuasion skills, presentation skills, and listening skills. Communicate with clinical professional colleagues, politicians, the media, professional bodies, Jersey Care Commission and staff side organisations. Positive working relationships are key to developing new services, managing existing services and safeguarding those in our care and requires key influencing skills. Provides the professional advice and support to others in relation to professional and practice matters, ethical issues. Ability to communicate with all levels of staff from Board to ward level using appropriate language Qualifications Essential - Current NMC registered with the appropriate specialist qualification for the job - Masters degree in Health related subject or equivalent level of experience. - Evidence of further relevant professional courses and CPD - Mentorship Qualification or equivalent. - Management or Leadership award / qualification Person Specification Experience Essential Knowledge - Budget Management - Active engagement in clinical supervision - Advanced clinical knowledge and skills - Knowledge of quality and governance agenda - Expert practitioner in area of nursing / midwifery - Understanding of NMC Code of Practice and requirements of it for the practice and behaviour of staff and self, and the midwives rules - Highly developed specialist knowledge of nursing procedures underpinned by theory and experience. - Candidates must display expert level knowledge of the Governance and Risk frameworks required to underpin the delivery of safe patient care Technical Work Based Skills - Strategic awareness in service development - Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite General skills / attributes - Ability to present effectively both verbally and in writing - High level interpersonal and influencing skills Experience - Experience in undertaking research and applying to practice - Significant post qualification working experience in order to have developed consolidated practice to lead the staff teams. - Experience of working in an autonomous nursing/midwifery role. - Experience of working at a senior clinical level within a managerial role. - Demonstrable experience of managing change effectively. - Significant management, human resource and operational experience. - Experience of designing and delivering training to colleagues at all levels Communication and Relationships - The post holder will receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to individuals - patients, families and staff. Needs to be able to display empathy especially at times of distress and will be required to impart same information to others in an appropriate way. - - The post holder needs to be able to effectively counsel and support colleagues at times of difficulty, distress or challenge in order to ensure continued delivery of safe services. Communicate effectively with key stakeholders this will require the post holder to have highly competent skills in negotiation, motivation, persuasion skills, presentation skills, and listening skills. Communicate with clinical professional colleagues, politicians, the media, professional bodies, Jersey Care Commission and staff side organisations. Positive working relationships are key to developing new services, managing existing services and safeguarding those in our care and requires key influencing skills. Provides the professional advice and support to others in relation to professional and practice matters, ethical issues. Ability to communicate with all levels of staff from Board to ward level using appropriate language Qualifications Essential - Current NMC registered with the appropriate specialist qualification for the job - Masters degree in Health related subject or equivalent level of experience. - Evidence of further relevant professional courses and CPD - Mentorship Qualification or equivalent. - Management or Leadership award / qualification Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Employer details Employer name Health and Community Services Address Government Of Jersey Union Street St. Helier Jersey JE2 3DN Employer's website https://www.gov.je (Opens in a new tab)