A Vacancy at Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Care Group Nurse Director in our Neurosciences Care Group.
This is a senior registered nursing role in our recently formed organisation responsible for taking forward the responsibilities of our Neuroscience Specialist Care Group. The Neurosciences Care Group is responsible for Neurology, Neurophysiology, Stroke and Neurosurgery services across the Humber Health Partnership Group.
The Neurosciences Care Group has a budget of circa £33m and a WTE of staff of circa 486.
As a member of the triumvirate team leading the Care Group, the Care Group Nurse Director will work collaboratively and productively with the Chief of Service and Care Group Operations Director to provide assurance to the Group Executive Team that robust systems of governance and excellence in nursing care are in place to enable the delivery of high-quality patient and family led services.
You will act as a role model, providing positive, professional accountable leadership across the Group to nursing/clinical staff, liaising with the Site Director of Nursing to whom you will be professionally accountable to.
The Care Group Nurse Director will drive and influence change, collaboration and efficiencies throughout the Care Group ensuring we take the best aspects of each organisation within the Group.
Working in partnership with other organisations in the provision and planning of universal health services, taking forward national policies, with drive, passion and enthusiasm to develop a long-term strategic vision that enables high quality and sustainable services.
The Care group Nurse Director will ensure achievement of key objectives relating to professional practice and the emerging service improvement agenda. You will take a lead role in supporting compliance with key quality assurance systems, particularly national, regional, and local nursing and service standards and will maintain clinical credibility.
The post holder will provide strong strategic nursing leadership and professional advice within the Care Group in a climate of change that enables high quality services to be consistently delivered to patients and families. The Care Group Nurse Director will be responsible for the development and provision of transformational leadership across all clinical services to ensure and consistently develop a safe, high-quality, cost-effective service for patients, families and carers.
NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
The Care Group Nurse Director is accountable for the safe, effective delivery of nursing across the Care Group and for setting high standards and meeting the regulatory and commissioner requirements, enabling nursing staff to feel actively engaged and supported professionally to deliver the best possible care to patients and their families.
The Care Group Nurse Director will provide outstanding professional leadership to nurses within the Care Group. The role is a highly visible one to ensure that nursing makes the fullest contribution to the development of services and in delivering a high quality clinical, education focused and research based service within the Division.
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
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This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Jan 2025