Associate Director of Nursing - Harefield

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Harefield; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization seeks an Associate Director of Nursing for Harefield Hospital. This role involves leading nursing teams, ensuring quality improvement, and managing nursing budgets. The ideal candidate will be a Registered Nurse with significant senior management experience and a Master’s degree in a relevant field. The position offers an impactful leadership role in a prestigious healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Experience of working at a senior nurse level in a leadership role.
• Experience of quality improvement and transformation.
• Extensive experience of managing nursing budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead the professional leadership of nursing at Harefield Hospital.
• Contribute to the clinical leadership and management of the Trust.
• Ensure compliance with clinical governance and management of risk.

Skills

Leadership skills

Vision for nursing

Project management skills

Education

Registered Nurse

First degree

Relevant management qualification

Master’s degree

Job description

Job overview

This post will have devolved responsibility and accountability for the professional leadership of nursing at Harefield Hospital.

The main components of the role are :

• To work in partnership with the Clinical Group Executive to ensure that all aspects of the Clinical Group’s annual plan are achieved and there is a clear strategy for nursing workforce, service, education, and research
• To contribute to the clinical leadership and management of the wider Trust, working in collaboration with the Group Senior Nursing team, ensuring that the voice of nursing is strong and effective, and representing the Clinical Group and the wider Trust nationally and internationally
• To work with the Clinical Group Director of Nursing to ensure overall structures, processes and oversight of clinical governance and management of risk, including CQC readiness and compliance

Main duties of the job

The main components of the role are :

• To work in partnership with the Clinical Group Executive to ensure that all aspects of the annual plan are achieved and there is a clear strategy for nursing workforce, service, education, and research
• To hold delegated responsibility on behalf of the Director of Nursing to ensure the Trust fulfils its statutory duties – these portfolios will be determined on an individual basis relevant to the Clinical Group core business
• To contribute to the clinical leadership and management of the wider Trust, working in collaboration with the Group Senior Nursing team, ensuring that the voice of nursing is strong and effective, and representing the Clinical Group and the wider Trust nationally and internationally
• With the Director of Nursing to ensure overall structures, processes and oversight of clinical governance and management of risk, including CQC readiness and compliance

Working for our organisation

Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy's and St Thomas' in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see documents attached (Job Description for Associate Director of Nursing - Harefield Hospital)

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse
• First degree
• Relevant management qualification or equivalent senior management experience
• Master’s degree in a relevant subject or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• Additional professional development activities
• PhD / Doctorate or equivalent experience

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Experience of working at a senior nurse level in a leadership role
• Experience of quality improvement and transformation
• Extensive experience of managing nursing budgets and a track record of delivering financial targets
• Experience of writing business cases and management reports to a very high standard for internal and external consumption
• Experience of being able to identify a problem, find a solution and implement and sustain a change in clinical practice across a complex directorate / organisation
• Experience of analysing highly complex data and or national guidance and being able to interpret and apply it locally

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in an AHSC
• Delivery of a clinical accreditation programme

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to articulate a clear vision for nursing
• Ability to understand the challenges that face the nursing profession and identify possible solutions
• Demonstrate outstanding leadership skills
• Ability to understand the complexities of business planning
• Ability to manage highly complex priorities

Desirable criteria

• Project management skills
• Presented nationally and internationally

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity / paternity, or marital / civil partnership.