This interim post, for up to nine months, sits in the Corporate Nursing Team across the Royal London and Mile End hospitals. The work centres on supporting the professional nursing agenda, with a focus on quality, governance, professional practice, research, patient experience, end of life care and mental health education. It asks for visible, values-led leadership across all care settings, and a senior manager with acute operational experience. Fit depends on NMC registration as a first level nurse and a Masters-level education or equivalent.
What the job involves
- Provide visible professional nursing leadership across all care settings
- Support delivery of the professional nursing agenda across both hospitals
- Lead on quality, governance and professional practice
- Focus on patient experience, end of life care and mental health education
- Encourage innovation, research and strategic thinking about service provision
- Drive quality improvement and staff experience
- Create psychologically safe environments for staff
- Develop an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive
- Lead with compassion, kindness and integrity
- Work as a key member of the Corporate Nursing Team and the wider nursing, midwifery and AHP leadership community
What’s required
Qualifications
- Masters level education or equivalent, with ongoing relevant postgraduate education
- Management or leadership qualification
Registration & licences
- NMC registration as a first level nurse (child, adult or midwife)
Experience
- Significant senior nursing leadership and managerial experience, including operational work in an acute setting
- Supervising staff and students, including HR issues
- Experience of audit to evaluate and develop a service
- Change management experience
- Close multi-professional working in an inpatient environment
- Managing other professional groups
Skills & knowledge
- Critical thinking, analytical ability and problem solving
- Strategic, tactical and creative thinking, prioritising competing demands and delivering to deadlines within resources
- Excellent written and in-person communication and presentation
- Leadership through influence and facilitating MDT working
- Awareness of developments in the NHS and service delivery
Other
- Manager on-call
- Developing or sourcing professional development materials
Nice to have
- Experience in a similar role
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Deputy Director of Nursing in London employer: The Methodist Church in Britain
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
