Senior nursing post on the Urgent and Emergency Care Directorate leadership team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The role provides professional and operational nursing leadership across the directorate's services, working with the General Manager, Clinical Director and matrons to strengthen quality, safety and performance while driving service transformation. Distinct features include a heavy people agenda covering recruitment, retention and succession planning, budget oversight, and standing in for the General Manager. Nurse registration and an MSc, or working towards one, are essential.
What the job involves
- Provide senior professional and operational nursing leadership across Urgent and Emergency Care, working with partners to deliver safe, effective care
- Lead service development and deliver operational, quality, workforce and financial priorities, using data to identify and sustain improvements
- Provide visible leadership for clinical governance, patient experience, risk management and infection prevention and control
- Ensure learning from complaints, incidents and feedback drives continuous improvement
- Lead workforce development, recruitment and retention, staff development and succession planning
- Support service redesign, transformation and business planning, including business cases and capital schemes
- Contribute to Directorate resources and budgets, identifying efficiencies and using resources effectively
- Implement national guidance and Trust policies across services
- Coach, motivate and develop teams, creating progression opportunities
- Represent Urgent and Emergency Care at meetings and forums, building internal and external relationships
- Communicate complex and sensitive information, escalating significant matters to senior leaders
- Provide professional advice during operational pressure and deputise for the General Manager
Qualifications
- Registered nurse
- MSc or working towards one
Registration & licences
- NMC registration
Experience
- Significant and extensive experience in a senior clinical operational role within the specialty
- Proven success in delivering change and performance through managing local teams
- Extensive experience managing multidisciplinary teams and building high-performance teams
- Extensive experience of budget and staff management
- Extensive experience of service redesign and quality initiatives
- Extensive experience of managing safe staffing levels
Skills & knowledge
- Expert negotiation, influencing and change management skills
- Experience of patient experience, complaints resolution and patient safety incident management
- Clinical effectiveness and nursing audit experience
- Extensive experience of policy development
Other
- Evidence of continual professional development
Nice to have
- Management qualification
- Formal improvement training
- Experience of leading a large diverse team with competing challenges
What’s offered
- Career development
- Flexible working and wellbeing support
- Staff recognition scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Car lease schemes
- Season ticket loan
- Membership of onsite leisure facilities
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