Director of Nursing for Networked Care

NHS; Reading; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS seeks a Care Group Director of Nursing to provide strategic leadership and ensure high-quality nursing services. This senior role involves managing nursing initiatives, operational performance, and governance to enhance patient care experiences across the Trust.

Qualifications

• Experience in nursing and senior nurse roles essential.
• Demonstrable experience of effective budgetary management.
• Evidence of working at an Associate Director of Nursing Level.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior strategic nursing leadership for a high-quality nursing service.
• Ensure robust governance and risk management processes.
• Develop the Care Group nursing workforce and deliver quality patient care.

Skills

Leadership

Management

Budget Management

Communication

Education

Master's degree in Nursing or health-related field

Management/Leadership qualification

Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council

Recognised teaching/assessing qualification

Safeguarding Training level 2

Job description

The purpose of this role is to provide senior strategic nursing leadership in order to ensure and consistently develop a high-quality, cost-effective nursing service for patients. The post holder will support the Executive Director of Nursing in leading the development of the nursing agenda within the Trust. Together with the Care Group Director, the Care Group Director of Operations and the Care Group Director of Finance, the post holder will be responsible for the delivery of operational, financial and quality performance of the services and the strategic objectives of the Care Group.

The Care Group Director of Nursing (CG DoN) will work collaboratively with the Care Group Director to provide assurance to the Executive Team and the Trust Board that robust processes and systems of governance and risk management are in place and that safe and high-quality patient-focused services are delivered.

Main duties of the job

The CG DoN will support the Chief Nurse in the implementation of the corporate nursing agenda, taking a specific strategic and operational lead for the allocated corporate component of the role (Complaints, Patient Experience and Safeguarding). They will participate in the on-call managers' rota.

Working closely with other professional leaders, the post holder will be required to ensure professional leadership is in place. They will provide expertise and advice on professional, operational and strategic issues within the Trust and across the health economy.

The CG DoN will ensure that the fundamentals of care are delivered effectively within the Care Group its services and departments and that competence in clinical practice is both developed and maintained in order to maximise the patient experience, safety and quality of service.

The CG DoN will ensure the Care Group has an appropriately skilled and qualified nursing and allied health professional workforce, deployed in the most efficient and cost-effective way to deliver high quality care to our patients and clients.

The CG DoN will be accountable for developing the Care Group nursing workforce, including innovation and developments in practice, creating the right environment to retain and develop talent.

About us

We are one of the largest hospital foundation trusts in the country, and currently touch the lives of half a million patients in the west of Berkshire every year by providing high quality acute medical and surgical services for our local communities. The Trust strives to provide high quality, compassionate care for our patients and their families.

Our values:

• Aspirational
• Resourceful

The town of Reading sits on the River Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford, and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as good.

Job responsibilities

For further details on the job role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications & Training

• Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Master's degree in Nursing or health related field or evidence of working at this level
• Management/Leadership qualification or proven track record in management/professional leadership role.
• Recognised teaching/assessing qualification (e.g. ENB 998, C&G 730 or equivalent)
• Safeguarding Training level 2

Experience

• Demonstrable consolidated experience in nursing and senior nurse roles
• Experience of managing a range of departments in the same role so that post holder is able to manage effectively when not always based in the departments managed
• Experience of developing business cases / business planning
• Understanding of NMC / HPC Code of Practice and requirements of it for the practice and behaviour and its application to the management of staff and self
• Demonstrable experience of effective budgetary management.
• Evidence of working at an Associate Director of Nursing Level

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.