Network Director - Nursing, Healthcare Profession & Quality Governance

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About the Trust

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
3. Access to Continued Professional Development
4. Involvement in improvement and research activities
5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
6. Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople

https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values

Job overview

The Network Director of Quality, Nursing and AHP and Network Medical Director and Network Director of Operations form the collective leadership team for the defined Care Network and are
jointly responsible for:

Setting Strategic Direction - developing service strategies and plans for improvement that promote consistency in standards and outcomes across our footprint.

Delivery and Performance - ensuring accountability and governance in place within the

Care Network and support delivery of the Trust Big Ambitions, strategic objectives and statutory requirements.

Leadership and Support - creating the right culture and environment for high performance.

As a member of the leadership team, the post holder is responsible for ensuring services within the Care Network comply with CQC registration requirements, national and local performance targets, annual business plan priorities and internal governance processes.

The post holder is also jointly responsible for maximising the use of resources within the Care Network by leading on transformation priorities, service improvements, quality improvements and efficiency programmes.

Working with the leadership teams within the other Care Networks, the post holder will ensure people with lived experience and their carers have a strong voice in decision making and service development and will embed continuous improvement throughout all services to ensure service users and carers experience the best possible care.

Main duties of the job

Be part of the Trust's Senior Nursing, Healthcare Professionals and Quality team reporting directly to the Director of Nursing, Healthcare Professionals and Quality Governance, taking lead responsibility for the delivery of the Trust's Quality Strategy within their Care Network.
• Be a highly visible, proactive and accessible clinical leader, acting as a role model to and clinical resource and ensuring the sustained delivery of high standards of nursing care and service delivery, to nursing staff, other disciplines in the trust, patients and the public.
• Proactively manage the Heads of Quality, Safeguarding Nurses, Nurse Consultants (where in post), providing support, guidance and direction to achieve optimal patient quality, safety, effectiveness, clinical and financial outcomes.

Working for our organisation

Ensure that the shared organisational vision and strategic ambitions, values and culture of the Trust are actively promoted and that the post-holder provides clear leadership and is a role model for their delivery.
• Provide leadership and management to a designated Care Network as part of the collective leadership team.
• Responsible for ensuring appropriate governance arrangements are in place, including risk management, health and safety, emergency planning (inc. business continuity) and Information Governance.
• Ensure governance arrangements are maintained and tested to provide assurance that quality standards and outcomes are delivered for patients and their carers and that staff are supported in a safe environment.
• Financial accountability and budget holder responsibilities for the Care Network and for delivering financial stability and value improvement plans contributing to the Trust overall financial performance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Be part of the Trust's Senior Nursing, Healthcare Professionals and Quality team reporting directly to the Director of Nursing, Healthcare Professionals and Quality Governance, taking lead responsibility for the delivery of the Trust's Quality Strategy within their Care Network.
• Be a highly visible, proactive and accessible clinical leader, acting as a role model to and clinical resource and ensuring the sustained delivery of high standards of nursing care and service delivery, to nursing staff, other disciplines in the trust, patients and the public.
• Proactively manage the Heads of Quality, Safeguarding Nurses, Nurse Consultants (where in post), providing support, guidance and direction to achieve optimal patient quality, safety, effectiveness, clinical and financial outcomes.
• Responsible for implementation of effective clinical and quality governance arrangements in the Care Network including clinical incidents and risk management, safeguarding, infection prevention, CQC compliance, patient and carer involvement; management of SIRIs and complaints and developing a just and learning culture where we learn and engage in continuous quality improvement at the front line.
• To uphold the standards of the profession in accordance with the NMC or professional Code of Conduct and to challenge poor practice at every occurrence. Recognise and champion excellence in care.
• To evaluate national quality standards and guidance, disseminate throughout the Care Network and take appropriate action to ensure compliance. Inform and influence professional and nursing practice and standards of care.
• To take a lead role in establishing clinical performance and quality standards and to ensure that systems are in place to regularly monitor and evaluate these. To continuously monitor the quality of patient care and the patient experience and to put in place strategies for continuous improvement.
• In partnership with the senior nurses in the Trust support the development of alternative and new roles within care such as assistant practitioners, advanced practitioners, ensuring that they process the knowledge, skills and competence to positively affect patient experience and outcome.
• To work independently to ensure delivery of quality services within Care Network working within policies, protocols and professional standards.
• Provide expert professional advice on matters related to the conduct competence and capability of registered nurses/professionals within the Care Network.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A Professional registration in a clinical speciality. Professional registration Masters' Degree in health related subject or equivalent experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development post graduate study in relevant field, management or associated topic Evidence of courses and competencies to doctorate level to support research data analysis

Desirable criteria

• Managerial qualification Teaching qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive senior management/professional leadership experience in a large complex NHS organisation Evidence of success in the management of change in a multi-agency context
• Evidence of delivering high quality service Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment and knowledge of methods to develop culturally sensitive clinical practice. Ability to lead/develop policies and procedures
• Experience of managing organisation wide programmes of quality/risk/service improvement
• Ability to interpret national policy, and design and implement complex strategies Experience of leading development and implementation of governance assurance processes Demonstrable record of successfully delivering value improvement programmes

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of national presentations and publications Well-developed IT Skills

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Advanced knowledge of priorities in Health Care, quality and current clinical/professional issues Understanding of National Strategies and their application for Nursing and Therapies
• Expert knowledge of compliance , clinical governance, risk management, improving patient safety, experience and clinical effectiveness Well-developed leadership and management skills Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to work across professional and organisational boundaries and experience of working with commissioners Ability to work in partnership with a range of people including people who access our services and carers

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria

• Audit / research experience Ability to manage complex situations and provide a solution Proven ability to consistently achieve results and challenging targets Excellent report writing and data analysis skills
• Proven ability to lead improvement and audit activity through staff and service user/carer participation Ability to hold others to account and manage demanding programmes of work Highly motivated and dynamic, confident and tenacious Values driven and self aware
• Proven visionary leadership, influencing and negotiating skills with an open and participative style Ability to motivate others and work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Able to deal both with multi- tasking in a complex environment as well as able to focus intense concentration on single issues for periods. Able to manage highly distressing or emotionally difficult information and situations and manage own emotions and be resilient Creative, innovative and self-motivated
• Professional and personal credibility Strong team player willing to work flexibly Highly effective interpersonal skills (able to communicate at any level of the organisation) Recognisable role model
• Commitment to equal opportunity, fair access and people who access services and carer empowerment Ability to present complex information to different audiences Ability to deal with highly sensitive situations in a compassionate and caring manner

Work related circumstances

Essential criteria

• Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.

A hints and tips document is attached below for guidance on completing your application form.

Disclosure Barring Certificate check

All of our new starters, who are appointed to a post which requires a Disclosure Barring Certificate check (DBS), will be recharged for the full cost of the check (DBS checks for volunteers are free of charge).

An enhanced DBS check costs £38 and a standard check costs £18 (plus an administration charge of £3.50). If you are a substantive member of staff, the full amount will be taken from your first month's salary.

If you are a member of staff on our bank, you will need to repay the full amount from your first salary.

We encourage you to register with the DBS update service at an annual cost of £13 (this is mandatory for bank staff).

Other important information

• We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
• Priority will be given to applications from existing NHS employees who have an at risk status
• This post is on our terms and conditions (T&Cs). If you are an existing employee currently on transferred terms and conditions (i.e. you transferred from another employer and retained their T&Cs) and you are voluntarily applying for this post; if you are successful, you will be employed on our T&Cs
• You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview
• We will notify you by email if you have been shortlisted or not. Computer access is available at your local job centre or library. Please make sure you check your spam filter/junk folder. If any mail goes to your junk folder please mark it as safe
• If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post
• If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application
• We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received
• Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
• We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our recruiting managers directly.

Vaccination

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 180.9KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 144.9KB)
• Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)
• Applicant Information pack (PDF, 505.6KB)
• Hints and tips for your application (PDF, 128.7KB)