Job summary
The Deputy Head of Nursing for Medicine at KGH/NGH is looking to recruit an experienced senior nurse to join the NGH Medicine Division Matron team for a 5 month secondment opportunity.
The successful candidate will:
lead our nursing teams to deliver safe, high quality care to our patients.
Have the ability to embed a culture of caring and continuous improvement by setting clear standards of behaviour and zero tolerance of poor care.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
oHave an understanding of the Matrons 10 key roles in promoting high standards of clinical care, workforce retention and recruitment, staff education and development, continuous patient safety and quality improvement as well as good patient experience.
oUnderstand their role in providing key assurance that our Division is delivering safe care
oHave the ability to support and develop staff to fulfil their roles.
oBe able to utilise processes, provide support and help to develop our teams to provide seamless, high quality care to our patients based on best practice.
oHave experience of working in an acute setting ideally in Medicine.
About us
Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close adverts once sufficient applications have been received.
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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.
Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the Shortlisting Criteria section of the document.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse / Midwife
- Post registration degree qualification or relevant experience
- Master degree or working towards equivalent experience
- Teaching qualification, MSPP or equivalent
Desirable
- Management or leadership qualification
Skills
Essential
- The ability, using influencing skills, motivational and interpersonal skills, to develop and maintain professional relationships and communication with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations
- To have the ability to remain calm in stressful situations and at all times be able to live by the NGH values.
- The ability to influence a sustainable culture that improves quality and experience for all patients
- The ability to work in partnership with others to develop, take forward and evaluate direction, policies and strategies
- The ability to test and review new models, concepts, and practices
- Maintains the quality in own work and encourages others to do the same
- The ability to transfer data into meaning full actions to improve performance
- The ability to use Excel and Word to create statistical information for the Division
Knowledge / experience
Essential
- Experience in the delivery of improvement programmes
- Experience of leading change in clinical practice
- Experience in developing standards, writing guidelines, standard operating procedures and policies
- Experience in participating in audits and evaluation
- Minimum of 2 years' experience as a clinical band 7 or equivalent within the acute setting
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Northampton General Hospital
Address
University Hospitals of Northamptonshire
Northampton
NN1 5BD
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.northamptongeneral.nhs.uk/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)
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Contact Details:
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