Associate Chief Nurse

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job description

An exciting opportunity to join the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust as an Associate Chief Nurse. This opportunity has arisen as the current Deputy Chief Nurse is supporting new projects and the planning for the Chelsea site build. We are seeking an ambitious, talented, and motivated individual to support the Chief Nurse Office with projects and service developments. To fulfil the role, you will need to be a Registered Nurse with postgraduate qualifications in cancer care and experience of working at a senior level in the NHS. You will gain experience of working at board level and develop the knowledge and skills to take you onto the next step in your career. Success in the role will depend on your clinical credibility, knowledge of the safe staffing agenda, supporting the development of the nursing and AHP workforce, and experience of leading large scale change programmes within a specialist Trust. You will provide vision and professional leadership, promoting excellence in clinical care and ensuring quality and patient safety is at the heart of everything we do. Working across professional boundaries, leading change, you will be able to demonstrate your ability to take teams with you in challenging circumstances. You will role model and support positive and mutually respectful relationships at all levels in the organisation, championing inclusion and equality of opportunity.

Main duties of the job

The Associate Chief Nurse - Projects and Practice will report directly to the Chief Nurse and will provide senior nursing leadership across the organisation supporting the effective delivery of several key patient safety and quality governance requirements and initiatives to support delivery of safe and effective care and excellent patient experience.

About us

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals - one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey - as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work-life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our ongoing achievements.

Job responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

1. Lead the nursing element on the introduction of nursing apprenticeships to the organisation at scale.
2. Work with key corporate colleagues in EPRR to ensure the rollout of fire training and simulated evacuation, distribution, and shift presence of fire wardens across the departments on all sites.
3. Work with key EPRR colleagues to ensure COSHH compliance in all wards and departments.
4. Support the organisation with risk and governance related aspects of nursing workforce, specifically supporting delivery of rostering improvement plans.
5. Work with divisional colleagues to explore and support the potential rollout of the national uniform strategy.
6. Lead the PPI team to continue to deliver a person-centred and enhanced patient experience offer.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Recognised Cancer Qualification
• Further evidence of management/leadership qualification or training

Experience & Knowledge

• Significant experience at a senior nurse level within a healthcare environment
• Significant experience of successfully implementing large change projects across services
• Experience of working with cancer and/or palliative patients/service users to improve experience.
• Experience in implementing safe/quality initiatives and service improvement projects
• Significant experience in setting objectives and performance management and holding staff to account.
• Extensive experience of effective workforce planning and can demonstrate an understanding of establishment and acuity dependency tools
• Experience in providing advice on complex professional issues
• Experience of producing high quality reports in a timely manner for consideration at Senior level internally and externally.
• Thorough knowledge and experience of clinical governance issues, quality improvement and minimising risk for the organisation
• Understanding of the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda and its practical application to nursing and AHP services.
• Experience in a corporate role.

Skills and Ability

• Knowledge of Nursing & Midwifery Policy & Practice and NMC standards and requirements.
• Analytical skills, managing conflicting priorities, analysing complex data and developing services in partnership
• Committed to improving patient care and raising clinical and professional standards.
• Good knowledge of financial Standing Instructions.
• Able to influence at a variety of levels of seniority and professional groups.
• Evidence of leading change through others
• Ability to translate policy, plan targets and vision into effective strategic and operational plans.
• Ability to perform under pressure while delivering high quality outcomes within agreed timescale.
• Proactive and solution driven and willingness to deliver consistently high standards of work.
• Experience in managing the Nursing & Midwifery Education Agenda

Planning and Organisation Skills

• Evidence of ability to operate effectively with a variety of leadership styles as appropriate to the circumstances
• Evidence of skill and effectiveness as a member of a team, contributing especially to team building and inspirational leadership. Evidence of the ability to motivate and to enthuse colleagues (i.e. personality, credibility, intelligence and charisma) locally and across organisational boundaries.
• Evidence of the ability to take hard decisions when needed, or to be firm or compassionate as the situation demands and to be credible throughout the behavioural spectrum
• Ability to encourage participation of all team members, encouraging balancing the needs of cynics and visionaries.
• Ability to constructively challenge
• Proven abilities to push the boundaries, such as novel solutions to long term problems
• Ability to empower team members to take smart risks within an appropriate governance framework.
• Recognises others' anxieties and problems and encourages them to find ways of dealing constructively with their stress: models a healthy work-life balance

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.

£96,340 to £109,849 a year per annum inc HCAS