A Vacancy at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The SWLEOC Head of Nursing, with the SWLEOC Director and SWLEOC Medical Director, are expected to deliver the effective integrated clinical, operational and financial performance of SWLEOC.
The Head of Nursing will directly manage the Matrons, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Lead Therapist and be responsible for the delivery of safe and effective nursing care. The Head of Nursing will be accountable for the delivery of an effective nursing service including the delivery of a balanced budget and associated financial performance.
- To provide strong professional and managerial leadership to the general and specialist nursing teams and Allied Health Professionals to ensure high quality standards of care, clinical governance and effectiveness, delivering on key national and local performance targets.
To play a key role in service transformation across the directorate and to deliver and lead effective partnership working with our four partners.
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
The South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre is an established surgical hub situated on the Epsom Hospital site. The Centre has a core workforce which is completely committed to the delivery of excellent treatment for patients undergoing elective surgery.
The Centre comprises six theatres which run six days a week, operating on approximately 6,000 patients per year, an Outpatients’ service and Pre-Assessment, which is undertaken digitally. Patients recover, post-surgery, in a Post Anaesthetic Care Unit and are then discharged home or taken to the ward for further care, if needed.
SWLEOC is a partnership organisation, made up of four trusts: Epsom and St Helier, St Georges, Kingston and Croydon. Patients come for surgery from across South West London and Surrey, but there are also many patients who come from a wider catchment area.
We have a position of Head of Nursing to fill in a secondment capacity for a period of six months, Band 8b. We are looking to recruit an experienced senior nurse who will be a confident leader to work with all the nursing teams, bringing cohesion and support to all departments so that the highest standards of patient care can be maintained.
The successful candidate will work with the Senior Leadership Team, representing nursing and supporting ongoing transformation work within the Centre. The candidate will also have regular one to one meetings with the Chief Nurse of Epsom and St Helier.
This advert closes on Thursday 6 Feb 2025