Head of Nursing for Urgent and Emergency Care
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George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women's, children's, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.
The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
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Job overview
Job Title: Head of Nursing for Urgent and Emergency Care
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Closing Date: 11th October 2024
Interview Date: 23rd October 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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Main duties of the job
Lead on and implement the nursing quality agenda.
Lead a team of Matrons within the Urgent and Emergency Care Unit.
You will form part of the Urgent and Emergency Care Units Triumvirate delivering service development, business planning ensuring achievements in key local and national targets.
You will be directly involved in embedding a positive culture and driving improvements within the Urgent and Emergency Care Unit.
Working for our organisation
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide leadership to Matrons, Unit Managers, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Emergency Nurse Practitioners within the Directorate and work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary teams across the Trust.
Provide direct line management, clinical, professional leadership to the Matrons within the Directorate, ensuring nursing care is delivered to a high standard.
Maintain clinical credibility through clinical practice.
Take part in the Senior Nurse Rota.
Please note that this list is not exhaustive, for more information please find that the full details can be found in the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Person specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of recent relevant continual professional development
- Significant experience at Matron/Clinical Lead level
- Expert and up to date knowledge and understanding of the key
- Experience of managing a budget
- Knowledge and experience of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements
- Experience of nurse leadership and operational management
- Experience working in a team environment
- Broad range of clinical experience
Qualifications and Professional Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (1st Level)
- Educated to degree level
- Teaching Qualification (7307, 998 or Mentoring and Assessing)
- Educated to Masters level or working towards completion of Masters programme or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Leadership/Management Qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Must be able to demonstrate the ability to facilitate and present to groups
- Excellent communication skills and highly developed interpersonal and influencing skills
- Must be able to demonstrate use of IT skills
- Open, participative, dynamic and supportive leadership with a flexible management style
- Must be able to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department
- Must have a good understanding of both primary and secondary care and the aims and priorities of the NHS
- Ability to organise diverse teams to deliver high standard quality patient care
- Proven ability of complex case management
- Multi-disciplinary team working across health, social and voluntary sectors
- To prepare written reports and contribute to business planning and service delivery
- Experience in motivating staff and improving individuals and team performance
Desirable criteria
- Must have an understanding and appreciation of service redesign and agenda
- Evidence of having led clinical audit
- Ability to analyse complex and diverse local data in order to identify trends in order to demonstrate changes that will be required to be undertaken
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage a team
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to influence and persuade
- Ability to be self-motivated
- Be a positive role model with the ability to demonstrate a credible, professional approach and manner at all times
- Good organisational skills
Other
Essential criteria
- Must be willing to participate in the Manager On-call Rota
- Has an independent means of transport
- Must be a non-smoker during working hours
- Must be willing to undertake Criminal Records Bureau disclosure to Enhanced/Standard level
- Must be legally entitled to work in this country
Please note:
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust utilises a third party recruitment system (TRAC). When applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into TRAC where all subsequent information regarding your application will be generated. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages via the NHS Jobs website. Furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any emails/messages sent to us via the NHS Jobs website.
By applying for this post you are consenting to George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system, TRAC.
The Job application data you provide will be used to assess your application for employment at GEH, to verify your information and conduct reference checks, and to communicate with you. If you accept employment with GEH, the information collected will become part of your employment record and will be used for employment purposes.
All information provided will be used for recruitment purposes only and processed in a lawful, fair and transparent manner.
Other:
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is a mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service application.
In response to NICE guidance and to support the reduction of health harm from tobacco, the Trust has a smoke-free site policy which applies to anyone on Trust sites. Staff who smoke will be supported to quit or not smoke whilst on Trust sites.
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees as they are at the heart of our patients journey. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued, respected, empowered and included within an organisation that is representative of all members of the community. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual - taking pride in that we value employees, job applicants, students, volunteers, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our excel behaviours with a vision to create a workplace that represents a culture of kindness, joy and inclusion.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
- Head of Nursing (PDF, 568.3KB)
- Head of Nursing (PDF, 280.6KB)
- Head of Nursing (PDF, 648.5KB)
- Functional Requirements (PDF, 620.0KB)