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Main area: Nursing
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Occasional weekend or night working)
Job ref: 349-WTWA-6626582*
Site: Wythenshawe Hospital
Town: Manchester
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/11/2024 23:59
Job overview
We are looking for an exceptional nurse leader who is experienced, innovative and committed to making a real difference to the Division of Cardiac Services, Wythenshawe, Trafford, Withington and Altrincham Hospitals (WTWA). This is a key nursing post, sitting within the Cardiac Services senior nursing team, supporting the divisional Head of Nursing through leading the divisional nursing teams to develop our services to a new level of excellence.
They will be joining an established team of a Lead Nurse and 6 Matrons, who are responsible for taking forward the nursing vision as well as being highly involved in service improvement and performance. This post holds line management responsibilities.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be an experienced senior nurse who has held previous leadership roles, including at an 8a level and possess a proven record of delivering safe and high-quality patient care. They will be a highly visible leader, able to evidence how they have positively influenced nursing and patient care, have experience of innovation and change management and can demonstrate ongoing professional development. Patient safety and experience will be a priority, with an emphasis on compassion and dignity.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.6bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate should be enthusiastic, with authentic leadership and people management skills, able to lead the nursing contribution at a senior level in line with the MFT Strategy and People Plan. They must be able to demonstrate evidence-based practice and knowledge of the current healthcare agenda, be clinically credible and able to manage competing priorities.
The post holder will be skilled at building relationships and influencing within the division and wider WTWA teams. They will be an excellent communicator, well organised, able to triangulate and promote policy, guidance and data to inform decision making to improve patient care and staff experience. Highly articulate and able to produce high-quality reports. They will need to demonstrate their ability to work autonomously and be a strong and supportive team member and leader.
S/he will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and relevant departments internal and external to the Trust to ensure the delivery of responsive individualised patient care developing and supporting nursing staff to respond to the transforming nursing agenda.
Person specification
Qualifications
* First Level NMC registration; appropriate teaching qualification or equivalent experience; graduate in health-related subject or equivalent experience.
* Management/Leadership qualification; relevant Master’s degree or working towards.
Knowledge and Experience
* Significant operational management experience at Matron level or above; evidence of relevant study and continuing professional development; detailed knowledge of the NHS and current opportunities and challenges; evidence of implementing and managing change to improve services or patient experience; experience in reviewing and setting establishment using validated tools and benchmarking; experience in complaints management; experience in managing an operational service including budget management/financial planning and strategic development; evidence of using service improvement methodology in the delivery of change within services; experience in management of staff in line with Human Resources policies and procedures.
Skills and Abilities
* Evidence of strong leadership skills; excellent verbal and written communication skills; evidence of report writing and presentations; excellent interpersonal skills and experience in interdisciplinary working/communication; evidence of initiative, planning and finishing skills; evidence of analytical skills and changes made within services as a result of analysing data; evidence of negotiating and influencing skills; evidence of clinical governance and risk management activity.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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