Operational Head of Nursing

Shropshire Community Health Nhs Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health service provider in Shrewsbury is seeking a Lead Operational Nurse for Adults to oversee nursing delivery and provide clinical leadership. The role involves ensuring patient care standards, collaborating on quality and safety incidents, and driving the development of new services. Candidates should demonstrate strong leadership skills and a commitment to professional development of nursing staff. This position fosters a vital connection between the trust and local communities to enhance health services.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and contribute to nursing practice and operational clinical leadership.
• Support implementation and monitoring of the Trust's strategic clinical and quality agenda.
• Lead and direct development of new services and patient care pathways.
• Deputise as required for the Divisional Clinical Manager.

Job description

Overseeing the operational Nursing delivery of care.

Providing senior Nursing leadership and role modelling to all Nurses in an operational leadership role.

Working collaboratively with corporate Nursing and Governance teams to ensure there are timely responses to Quality and Safety incidents.

As Lead Operational Nurse for Adults, this role provides clinical leadership to nursing staff in adult services, including the Prison sector, ensures patient care standards are upheld, and supports nurses' professional development across Divisions. Responsibilities include representing nursing perspectives, maintaining high-quality care, monitoring outcomes, and initiating improvements as needed.

Key Responsibilities

1. Oversee and contribute to nursing practice and operational clinical leadership. Offer strategic leadership support to Divisional Clinical Managers and Operational Leads. Collaborate with other Senior Nurses within the Trust to maintain accountability on key performance indicators.
2. Support the implementation and monitoring of the Trust's strategic clinical and quality agenda.
3. Lead and direct the development of new services and patient care pathways, ensuring they match the needs of patients and drive the progress of locality led models of care.
4. Deputise as required for the Divisional Clinical Manager.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.