Deputy Associate Director of Nursing - Emergency Care and Trauma

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Deputy Associate Director of Nursing for Emergency Care and Trauma. This role requires a senior nurse with strong leadership and communication skills to ensure safe patient care and improve services within a team-focused environment. Candidates should have advanced qualifications and significant experience in managing nursing functions. The opportunity includes participation in dynamic leadership teams and a commitment to excellence in patient care.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Continuous professional development

Qualifications

• Senior nursing role with experience managing complex HR issues.
• Ability to analyse complex problems and develop workable solutions.
• Experience of leading multi-professional teams in an acute setting.

Responsibilities

• Ensure delivery of safe and compassionate care.
• Take the lead on risk management within the division.
• Work with leadership teams to drive service improvement.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Analytical ability

Sound negotiation skills

Leadership skills

Coaching skills

Education

First Level registered nurse

Masters level education or equivalent

Job description

Deputy Associate Director of Nursing - Emergency Care and Trauma

We are looking to recruit an exceptional nurse leader who understands and celebrates the diversity of our local patient and staff populations. We are keen to hear from senior nurses who have a growth mindset - who choose to see that there's always a solution to a defined problem - and have the skills to coach for improvement and motivate the individuals and teams around them to perform at a highest level and embrace our divisional philosophy of 'Empowering people to thrive through exceptional care'.

The portfolio of the postholder will include the Emergency Department, Pre-Hospital Care, Acute Medicine and Older People Services as well as core nursing and governance functions across the entire division, which consists of the following additional directorates - 1. Orthopaedics & Plastics 2. Trauma 3. Neurosciences and Stroke and 4. Imaging

The successful candidate will benefit from being part of dynamic directorate and divisional leadership teams and an organization that has firmly established itself as a value-based organisation on a journey to receive a CQC rating of good and outstanding. For the benefit of any prospective applicants, in my capacity of the Associate Director of Nursing for Emergency Care and Trauma I would like to add that I am incredibly proud of the improvements we have made in terms of safety, quality and team culture in our division and our ability to attract and retain staff.

Main duties of the job

The Deputy Associate Director of Nursing is a key member of the divisional and hospital senior nursing team with specific responsibility for ensuring the delivery of safe & compassionate care within the division and specifically within Emergency and Pre-Hospital Care, Acute Medicine and Older People Services. This will include risk management, ensuring professional standards, leadership, appropriate planning implementations, monitoring and review mechanisms are in place which develop high quality patient driven services within the available resources.

In addition, the post holder will take a lead nursing role within the hospital for a specific strategic work stream.

The Deputy Associate Director of Nursing will work with the divisional and directorate triumvirates to provide strategic leadership, ensure that there are appropriate systems and processes within the Division to enable staff to deliver good quality clinical care and drive forward the service improvement agenda to achieve quality, safety and efficiency gains.

Specifically, the DADoN for the Division will:

1. Formally deputise for the ADoNo Support with the day-to-day responsibility and accountability for the nursing and governance services delivered by the division
2. With the Divisional Director, Divisional Director of Operations and ADoN performance manage the Directorate Team
3. Lead the Division on Risk Management
4. Develop and implement plans to deliver the relevant Trust objectives as required

About us

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.

Job 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

Experience

• oExperience working in a senior nursing role (8b or above).
• oExperience of audit in evaluating and developing a service
• oExperience of managing a budget
• oExperience of close multi- professional working in an relevant inpatient environment
• oEvidence of managerial responsibilities and operational experience in a relevant acute setting.
• oAbility to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
• oAbility to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands.
• oAbility to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources
• oExperience in managing complex HR issues

Skills

• oAble to evaluate and be reflective and reflexive
• oExcellent communication skills and presentation skills.
• oAbility to initiate and implement change
• oSound analytical, negotiation and organisational ability
• oAbility to develop and influence a high performing, collaborative team, whilst allowing flexibility for members to develop against their own personal targets
• oAbility to establish rapport/credibility with Trust staff including clinicians, nursing staff and managers, staff representatives and professionals from outside the Trust
• oDemonstrates strong adaptable leadership skills
• oAbility to assess situations and take calculated risks based on learning and experience, to achieve longer-term service improvements
• oCoaching skills or experience
• oTo have experience of setting up a new service in line with knowledge and evidence

Qualifications and Knowledge

• oFirst Level registered nurse
• oMasters level education MSc or degree equivalent in related subject (willingness to commence MSc level degree)
• oTrack record of achievement as a leader which demonstrates significant successes through innovation and a strong but sensitive style, which contributes directly to the patient experience and continuous improvement
• oDemonstrate well developed negotiation skills coupled with the ability to tackle poor performance effectively
• oAdvanced knowledge clinical governance processes and standards

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.