Associate Chief Nurse - Workforce and Patient Safety

NHS Jobs; Nuneaton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs seeks an Associate Chief Nurse to drive Workforce and Patient Safety initiatives across the trust, transforming care models and ensuring nursing and midwifery standards with dashboards for staffing, harms data and safety culture.

You will lead strategic planning, operational management, and action planning to maintain high-quality care while using resources cost-effectively. Strong collaboration with clinical teams and continuous learning are essential.

Qualifications

• Senior nursing leadership experience requested.
• Experience with workforce standards and safety culture.
• Experience in data collection and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead on delivering Workforce Standards and Safety Culture outcomes.
• Develop and implement nurse and midwifery care assurance systems.
• Oversee data collection, reporting and board reporting for staffing and safety.
• Champion infection prevention and control monitoring and RCA.
• Lead organisational restructuring and portfolio reviews to improve care excellence.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Associate Chief Nurse - Workforce and Patient Safety

Ensuring on-going transformation and new ways of working in line with agreed models of care, best practice guidance and innovation. Lead on and be responsible for ensuring that systems and processes are developed and implemented to provide assurance of evidence with regards to standards of nursing and midwifery care. Being responsible for the provision and delivery of Workforce Standards and Safety Culture outcomes and key performance indicators. Inclusive of strategic planning, operational management, analysis and evaluation of services. Lead on aspects of the Nursing and Midwifery Care Excellence agenda inclusive of the development, implementation and sustainability of a framework for Assessment and Accreditation across both Organisations. Lead on the implementation of an integrated and triangulated nurse sensitive dashboard inclusive of Safe Staffing and patient harms data the production of this will play an integral part of informing safe staffing, establishment reviews and harms, identifying areas of excellence and for improvement for Board reporting. Encouraging a culture that allows front line staff to question and redefine how their work is undertaken ensuring the on-going development of a patient centered focus and cost-effective use of resources. Support ward and department staff and patients where care issues have been identified and support the development of action plans to ensure acceptable standards of care are maintained Support staff in the clinical area when significant incidents (clinical or non-clinical) have occurred causing harm or potential for harm demonstrating a compassionate response. Work alongside clinical staff to empower patients and carers to take decisions about their care and planning their care whilst in the Trust Promote best practice with regard to Infection Prevention and Control monitoring HCAI and taking part in action planning and Root Cause Analysis with clinical teams Champion best practice and a culture of continuous learning to improve patient experience, reduce avoidable harm and strengthen patient safety outcomes. Proactively seek out opportunities to promote Workforce Standards and Safer staffing in proposed developments, service or Trust level objectives. Lead any re-organisation of the services within portfolio, continually review the ability to improve standards, improve efficiencies and highlight and champion the Care Excellence agenda Lead on the NHSE expectation for delivery of data collection, report writing and submissions as and when required. Liaise with the relevant authorities to deliver the National performance indicators. Supports the delivery of new, innovative and integrated services that meet national quality indicators and targets. Monitors clinical and workforce standards, including observations of care, patient experience and feedback and avoidable harms. Have a regular presence in the clinical areas for the purpose of observing and assuring standards of clinical practice and undertake clinical shifts when required. For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.