Head of Nursing

Guys & St Thomas Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 82,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital is seeking a Head of Nursing to lead the Theatres and Peri-operative Directorate. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong operational and strategic leadership, ensuring high-quality patient care and effective service delivery. This role requires significant experience in nursing management and a commitment to fostering a culture of learning and compassion within the team.

Qualifications

• Experience of leading clinical services with theatre experience.
• Track record of managing complex professional workforce and budgets.
• Experience in quality and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to all Directorate staff and communicate Trust values.
• Develop and deliver strategy and performance management of clinical services.
• Ensure a healthy workplace culture prioritizing learning and inclusivity.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Quality management

Education

Registered Nurse on the NMC register

Relevant Masters/MBA qualification

Job description

Main area Theatres and Peri-operative Directorate Grade NHS AfC: Band 8c Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On site) Job ref 196-SMT1724

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Thomas' Hospital Town London Salary £82,462 - £93,773 p.a. inc. HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 26/05/2025 23:59

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

We are looking for a talented, passionate and experienced nurse leader who can demonstrate strong operational and strategic leadership, with the ability to communicate effectively across multi-professional boundaries as well as create a strong culture of learning, caring and compassion.

Main duties of the job

The Head of Nursing will work as part of the Directorate's triumvirate management structure alongside the Clinical Director and General Manager to deliver our strategic, quality and transformational objectives.

You will need to have experience of leading clinical services, preferably demonstrating some theatre experience, as well as a proven track record of putting safety, quality and patient experience at the heart of all you do.

The role also supports on the delivery of partnership working across other clinical groups to ensure effective pathways and processes are in place to support patients and staff across the Trust.

Working for our organisation

The Theatres and Perioperative Directorate leads a number of services including 45 theatres and a Trust wide Pre-operative assessment Service which supports all surgical specialities across the organisation.

The directorate employs over 1000 staff made up of diverse range of professions including Nurses, ODP's, Technical staff, Anaesthetics, Allied Health Professionals and Admin and Clerical staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Leadership & Performance Management

In partnership with the Clinical Director and General Manager, provide leadership to all Directorate staff, ensuring clear communication of Trust and Directorate values, vision, priorities and expectations to ensure the engagement of teams to deliver services of the highest quality.

In partnership with the Clinical Director provide professional and clinical leadership to Directorate staff.

In partnership with the Clinical Director and General Manager, develop and deliver the strategy and performance management of clinical services, holding service operational management teams to account for delivery of their service objectives and performance through regular performance review meetings.

Joint responsibility with the General Manager to manage the highly complex nature of the business area and ensuing that the appropriate strategic plans are delivered within the complex operating framework.

• Ensure a healthy workplace culture which is inclusive and prioritises learning across boundaries.
• Joint responsibility with the GM and CD for the development and delivery of capacity plans to ensure that the Trust achieves performance targets to reduce waiting times for patients
• Lead jointly with the Clinical Director to provide oversight of the Quality and Safety agenda, providing challenge and taking action where required.
• Responsibility for leading workstreams within the surgical productivity programme trust wide
• To hold Lead Clinicians, Senior Nurses and other health professionals to account for delivery of their objectives through regular performance review meetings.
• Will ensure sufficient data availability within the Directorate to monitor and track performance and to satisfy reporting requirements related to the quality of nursing care and Directorate performance.
• Produce performance reports and briefings to monitor Directorate activities and to support decision making
• Provide the leadership and experience to manage and deliver on the complex and changing workload, which will include the need to identify and resolve conflicting priorities within tight timescales The post holder will provide leadership to resolve day-to-day management issues within the Directorate.

Please see the attached job description and person specification documents for further details of the role and requirements

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse on the NMC register
• Relevant Masters/MBA qualification or equivalent experience.

Experience

• Demonstrate a successful track record of delivering effective nursing services as a senior nurse manager responsible for staff management, financial management and change management.
• Experience of managing a large, complex professional workforce and associated budgets.
• Experience of working and delivering Trust-wide professional nursing objectives.
• Evidence of delivering operational performance across a range of services
• Experience of quality and risk management, to include experience in analysing and resolving complex complaints and incidents.
• A strong track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of nursing care.

Skills

• Able to articulate a clear vision/plan for nursing which will enable the Directorate to meet all of its objectives.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team to solve problems and deliver change
• A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS environment and the challenges it faces and the role and contribution nurses can make.
• Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships.
• A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals.

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.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Dawn Harper Job title Director of Nursing Email address [e-mail] Additional information

Informal discussion about the role is strongly recommended.

Please also contact:

Dawn Harper - [e-mail]

Ann-Marie Eurero - [e-mail] - General Manager

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