Deputy Director of Nursing, Quality & Governance
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Main area Nursing Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 214-CEN-6982712
Site King's Mill Hospital Town Sutton In Ashfield Salary £62,215 - £72,293 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 13/03/2025 23:59
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job overview
Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a Deputy Director of Nursing, Quality & Governance. We are looking for a self-motivated leader, with a passion for improving service user experience, staff engagement and a passion for governance.
Working with the Director of Nursing Quality & Governance, you will deliver a robust and evolving quality assurance framework and governance structure to ensure accountability and transparency, where quality assurance is integrated alongside quality improvements.
This role is pivotal in providing support to deliver safety improvement projects from patient safety priorities and emerging patient safety themes in line with the implementation of the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF). You will have proven change management, quality improvement, and project management experience as well as an understanding and appreciation of the various clinical patient safety issues to drive the safety improvement agenda.
Apply now to join our team and make a difference in healthcare!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge Requirements
* Knowledge of key performance indicators and compliance against quality/risk/governance agendas
* Knowledge of the NHS and the improvement agenda, particularly in relation to service delivery.
* Knowledge of CQC Fundamental Standards and associated compliance requirements
* Knowledge of improvement methodology
* Understanding of programme management methodologies
Qualifications
* Educated to Master’s degree or PG Qualifications or equivalent experience
Further Training
* Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
Experience & Personal Skills
* Significant senior level experience of healthcare and managing clinical governance and clinical effectiveness within large/ complex NHS organisation (must include experience in an acute care setting)
* Strategic planning and project management
* Proven performance management of services and delivery of targets within agreed timescales
* Experience of working collaboratively and in partnerships with other organisations
* Experience of successfully leading and managing a diverse team
* Experience of delivering change in service delivery /culture shift
* Ability to plan and lead multiple complex projects and / or project work streams at once, ensuring work is delivered to time and to budget
* Ability to exercise sound judgement, maintain discretion and use initiative
* High level of analytical capability, in order to reach conclusions and decisions based on available data and evidence, provided by the data analytics team or through primary research
* Excellent organisational skills and ability to plan and manage initiatives to deadlines, focusing on the delivery of outcomes
* A confident communicator with strong drafting and presenting skills, able to communicate confidently in front of large audiences of senior executives
* Knowledge of the structure, functions, culture and values of the NHS and its inter-relationship with other agencies
* Numerate, IT literate, analytical and able to use business intelligence effectively
* Demonstrable experience of effectively managing budgets
* Able to think and plan strategically
* Able to undertake analysis of performance data, assess projects, identifying areas for collaborative working and/or improvement
* Well-developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams and help them understand the statutory requirements for governance and assurance
* Demonstrates skills in IT systems and use of word, excel and PowerPoint
* Partnership & collaborative working with internal and external stakeholders through well-developed interpersonal skills
* Ability to produce accurate and timely reports appropriate to the audience
* Demonstrable experience of leading and effectively managing change in large complex environments.
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