Associate Director of Nursing

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This is an exciting opportunity to join the Women’s and Children’s division at Whipps Cross as the Associate Director of Nursing for Paediatrics, Neonates, Gynaecology and Breast.

This is a crucial position within the Divisional Management structure. Reporting to the Divisional Director, this post will be responsible for providing nursing management support and assisting in the delivery and development of services within the Division.

You will need to have a strong commitment to improving performance, while remaining passionate about quality. You will need to have a proven track record of successful management experience, and you will be expected to demonstrate a high standard of excellent communication and organisational skills and an ability to use your initiative.

The post holder will work closely with the clinical and operational teams to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of services.

Main duties of the job

The Associate Director of Nursing is a key member of the site Nursing Board, working with the Divisional Director, Divisional Manager and Director of Nursing to develop and implement the trust wide objectives to deliver evidence based standards and to improve the care and experience of our patients. The post holder is responsible for assuring professional standards and practice in all aspects of nursing /midwifery and AHP’s practice are achieved within their divisions, including the adherence to statutory regulations. It is also expected the post holder will undertake a corporate role as required by the executive managing director, chief nurse and the director of operations.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Qualifications

• First Level Registered Nurse/Midwife
• Evidence of Post Graduate education in specialty field
• Evidence of ongoing, relevant postgraduate education
• Masters level education MSc in a relevant healthcare subject
• Management
• Teaching/mentoring
• Coaching and Mentoring PGCE

Experience

• Significant experience of working in a senior nursing role
• Evidence of managerial responsibilities & operational healthcare experience in an acute setting
• Ability to analyse complex problems and workable solutions to address them
• Act based on own interpretation of broad clinical and professional policies, ability to advise divisional and site management teams on how these can be implemented.
• Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands
• Ability to act with autonomy and freedom to act in decision making across the division, with collaboration within the divisional team and escalation to the Hospital Management team as necessary
• Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines & within resources.
• Significant experience in the supervision of staff and students including HR issues
• Significant experience of audit in evaluating and developing services
• Change and quality improvement management experience
• Significant experience of close multi- professional working in an in- patient environment
• Significant experience of managing a budget and of managing budget holders
• Experience of teaching undergraduates and post graduate students
• Significant experience of working autonomously to lead a professional nursing group
• Significant experience of transformational change and use of quality improvement initiatives to improve practice and service
• Experience of managing other professional groups
• Experience of SLAs and contractual working

Skills

• Able to evaluate and be critical of self through reflective thinking
• To have confidence working across several subject areas- clinical, HR, quality improvement and finance
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills and presentation skills
• Ability to initiate and implement and sustain change
• Good analytical and organisational ability as well as the ability to think critically
• Demonstrates strong leadership skills
• Ability to influence and facilitate MDT working
• To have effective problem-solving skills
• Significant experience of implementing evidence-based practice
• Be able to demonstrate effective risk assessment, audit and investigation skills
• Presentation and teaching skills
• To have experience of setting up a new service or changing a service

Knowledge

• Broad breadth related to above skills and managerial and leadership experience
• Sound evidence-based knowledge in a specialist clinical area but with the ability to transfer Skills into other spheres of working.
• Awareness of developments in the NHS and service delivery and its impact on current services
• Good computer skills including presentation, data manipulation and spreadsheets

Other

• Ability to perform the duties of the post with any aids, adaptations or reasonable adjustments
• Lead by example, promoting the highest standards of professional conduct, integrity and probity
• High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and flexibility in approach and attitude
• Able to prioritise, organise and delegate effectively
• Sound judgment in decision making, and delivering in a timely and confident manner
• Commitment to developing a culture of openness and partnership
• High awareness of, understanding of own emotions, strengths and limitations as well as emotional intelligence of others