Group Associate Chief Nurse, Urgent and Emergency Care
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
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 you will 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.
Main duties of the job
1. 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.
2. 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).
3. 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.
4. Develops mechanisms to enable Matrons to develop and strengthen their leadership and management skills to meet the responsibilities of their roles.
5. 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.
Job responsibilities
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 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.
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.
The post holder leads performance monitoring of clinical care quality, safety, and experience across within the Urgent and Emergency Care 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.
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 AHPs on complex regulatory cases.
The post holder is pivotal to ensuring safe, timely and compassionate care.
Person Specification
Education
* Evidence of continued professional development
* PhD
Experience
* Extensive senior nursing leadership experience in complex healthcare settings
* Ability to lead clinical service improvements
* Evidence of complex budget management
Skills
* Evidence of high level professional people management skills and leadership qualities
* Evidence of resilience
* Evidence of an understanding of treating individuals with dignity and respect
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.
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