Assistant Director of Nursing

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; United States; Remote; USD 94,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an influential senior nursing leader to drive clinical governance, quality and transformation across services. You will model high professional standards, coach nursing teams and shape workforce planning to ensure safe, compassionate care.

You will lead complex change initiatives, foster collaboration across disciplines and respond to performance data with decisive action, sustaining improvements in patient experience and safety

Qualifications

• NMC registered nurse with current practising certificate.
• Master's level education or equivalent experience encouraged.
• Proven track record in senior nursing leadership roles.
• Experience leading clinical innovation and service change.
• Strong governance, safety and patient experience focus.
• Experience in workforce planning, budgeting and financial oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to develop nursing talent and teams.
• Comfort with complex decision making and cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Leadership skills

Coaching & development

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Policy implementation

Quality improvement

Audit skills

Decision making under pressure

Cross-organisational collaboration

Education

NMC registered nurse

Degree level qualification

Master's degree or equivalent

Management/Training qualification

Leadership development

Senior management experience

Clinical innovation leadership

Workforce planning & budgeting

Nursing professional development

Quality and patient safety involvement

Complex decision making

Networking across boundaries

Job description

You will provide visible, credible and compassionate professional leadership, working collaboratively with clinical, operational and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver high-quality, safe and effective care. You will be expected to operate confidently at a senior level, providing solutions to complex challenges and contributing to the strategic direction, performance, quality and transformation of services. You will:

• Provide strong professional and clinical nursing leadership, acting as a role model for high standards of care and professional practice.
• Put quality, safety and patient experience at the centre of decision-making.
• Develop, coach and empower nursing leaders and teams, building leadership capability and supporting succession planning.
• Lead and influence service improvement, innovation and transformation.
• Strengthen clinical governance, risk management, infection prevention and control, learning from incidents and complaints, and continuous improvement.
• Lead workforce planning and safe staffing, ensuring nursing resources are aligned to patient need.
• Provide strong oversight of nursing resources and budgets, including bank and agency controls, and contribute to financial improvement and value for money.
• Use data, intelligence and professional judgement to understand performance, identify risks and drive improvement.
• Build credible relationships across services, professions and organisational boundaries to improve the patient journey., The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £25.70 (standard disclosure) or £46.70 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers) are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Our statement on modern slavery We have zero tolerance of slavery and human trafficking and are committed to maintaining and improving systems, processes and policies to avoid complicity in human rights violation and to prevent slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain. The Trust policies, procedures, governance and legal arrangements are robust, ensuring that proper checks and due diligence are applied in employment procedures to ensure compliance with this legislation. We also conform to the NHS employment check standards within our workforce recruitment and selection practices. This strategic approach incorporates analysis of the Trust's supply chains and its partners to assess risk exposure and management on modern slavery. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

These are influential senior leadership roles for individuals who are passionate about excellent patient care, developing people and transforming services.

An exciting opportunity for a senior nursing leader who can thrive in a complex and fast-paced environment, bringing visible leadership, strong professional standards and a relentless focus on quality, safety, patient experience and improvement.

Required qualifications

• First level registered nurse, with current NMC
• Degree level qualification or equivalent in relevant discipline
• Evidence of education to master's level or equivalent experience
• Significant evidence of post registration continued professional development
• Post-graduate/registration Management or Training qualification /equivalent
• Evidence of Leadership development, Significant management and leadership experience to including experience of working at a senior level
• Demonstrable experience of leading clinical innovation or leading change within clinical practice
• Demonstrable experience in, workforce planning, managing resources budgetary and financial management
• Demonstrable experience in development of Nursing as a professional in their practice
• Evidence of relevant involvement in meeting the Trust Quality and Patient Safety objectives
• Evidence of making operational judgements involving highly complex facts/ situations
• Demonstrate the ability to maintain high standards of care and team management over a sustained period.
• Evidence of networking, working effectively across organisational and professional boundaries

Desirable criteria

• Research experience, Evidence of strong leadership skills- Coaching & values led leadership style, encouraging engagement and empowerment amongst staff and stakeholders, and in developing high performing teams
• Excellent interpersonal skills. - able to communicate highly complex and sensitive information and demonstrate negotiation, coaching and facilitation skills
• Solve problems, using a solution focused approach demonstrating competent persuasive and influencing skills
• Implement policy and implementation plans to deliver the clinical strategy and plans ensuring successful implementation
• Project management skills Experience of using Healthcare improvement models in practice including QI methodology
• Research information and use audit skills to applying findings to influence practice and develop business cases/plans
• Analyse detailed data and information, including preparing responses to issues, weighing risks, and forming judgements often within tight timescales.
• Ability to make decisions in a pressured environment
• Cope with competing priorities and a demanding workload
• IT literate and able to use standard office software and bespoke systems.

Desirable criteria

• Professional profile/national presentations, Evidence of effective leadership skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Evidence of project management and presentation skills, Committed to delivering high standards of patient care
• High level of personal and professional credibility, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.