NMGH Lead Nurse for Assurance and Compliance
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Main area: Nursing
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (This is a weekday role with an expectation as part of the senior nurse rota on weekends and evenings)
Job ref: 349-NMGH-6934085*
Site: North Manchester General Hospital
Town: Manchester
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/02/2025 23:59
Job Overview
The lead nurse provides clinical and professional leadership working across North Manchester Clinical Group.
Reporting to the Deputy Director of Nursing, providing visible leadership across the clinical, monitoring and maintaining professional high standards.
The post is an innovative and dynamic practitioner committed to improving the patient/client experience, improving standards of care and services, leading the nursing contribution at a senior level in line with the Trust Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Strategy and Values and Behaviors.
The post holder will be an integral member of the North Manchester Clinical Group senior nursing team providing support to implement and monitor progress on delivery of strategic objectives to ensure the provision of high quality, patient and family centered services.
The lead nurse will support the Deputy Director of Nursing in the delivery of the compliance and assurance work streams and continuous improvements in standards of patient care across North Manchester Clinical Group.
The post holder will be responsible for leading improvement work streams and projects both responding to and contributing to informing the local and national policy agenda on regulatory compliance while having oversight of policy.
Main Duties of the Job
Lead Nurse– Assurance and Compliance
North Manchester Clinical Group, North Manchester General Hospital
37.5 hours per week
We are looking for an exceptional nurse leader who is experienced, innovative and committed to making a real difference to quality improvement and patient experience. This is a key nursing post, supporting the NMGH Deputy Director of Nursing and Heads of Nursing for Corporate Nursing Services and Divisional Nursing Teams to develop our nursing colleagues to a new level of excellence. This post sits within the NMGH Corporate Nursing Team.
You will be an experienced senior nurse who has held previous leadership roles and possess a proven record of delivering high quality care for patients. You will be a highly visible leader, able to evidence how you have positively influenced nursing and patient care and have experience of change management and can demonstrate ongoing professional development.
Delivery of excellence in patient care, service improvement and patient safety are key priorities for this role, maximising the nursing contribution and continuously improving the patient and service user experience. We aim to deliver outstanding, high quality care for our patients and strive to become an employer of choice for nursing.
Please see Job Description for full details.
Working for Our Organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn 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’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
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Relevant Master’s degree or working towards
Knowledge & Experience
* Evidence of relevant study and continuing professional development.
* Detailed knowledge of the NHS and current opportunities and challenges.
* Experience in delivering teaching programmes.
* Significant operational management experience at Matron level or above.
* Evidence of implementing and managing change to improve services or patient experience.
* Experience in clinical audit and benchmarking.
* 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.
* Experience of utilising data for improvement.
* Experience in the development of policies, protocols, and guidelines to support best practice.
* Experience in delivering research and development in practice.
* Experience in delivering service changes which require staff consultation processes.
Skills and Abilities
* Evidence of strong leadership skills.
* Excellent written communication skills with evidence of reporting 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 are as a result of analysing data.
* Evidence of negotiating and influencing skills.
* Evidence of clinical governance and risk management activity.
Attributes
* Highly developed interpersonal skills.
* Confident and articulate.
* Demonstrates and role models Trust values and behaviours.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Sarah Sankey
Job title: Interim Deputy Director of Nursing
Email address: sarah.sankey@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07816063654
Please contact Sarah Sankey, Interim Deputy Director of Nursing, NMGH.
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