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Associate Chief Nurse | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £91,317 - £104,122 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 June 2024 |
| Location: | Chelsea, SW3 6JJ |
| Company: | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6285927/282-OD1245845 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate Chief Nurse for a fixed period of 12 months. This opportunity has arisen as the current Deputy Chief Nurse is supporting new projects and the planning for the Chelsea site build. We are seeking an ambitious, talented, and motivated individual on a one-year secondment, to support the Chief Nurse Office with projects and service developments. To fulfil the role, you will need to be a Registered Nurse with post graduate qualifications in cancer care and experience of working at a senior level in the NHS. This one-year appointment will give you the opportunity to gain insight and experience of working at Board level and to develop the knowledge and skills to take you onto the next step in your career.
Success in the role will depend on your clinical credibility, knowledge of the safe staffing agenda, supporting the development of the nursing and AHP workforce and experience of leading large scale change programmes within a specialist Trust. You will provide vision and professional leadership, promoting excellence in all areas of clinical practice and patient care, ensuring quality and patient safety is at the heart of everything we do.
If you feel ready to take on this challenge or would like more information about the role, please contact Chief Nurse - Mairead Griffin on 07989 139 752.
Please be advised interviews for the role are on 22nd May 2024.
The Associate Chief Nurse – Projects and Practice will report directly to the Chief Nurse and will provide senior nursing leadership across the organisation supporting the effective delivery of several key patient safety and quality governance requirements and initiatives to support delivery of safe and effective care and excellent patient experience. Working across professional boundaries, leading change, you will be able to demonstrate your ability to take teams with you in challenging circumstances. You will role model and support positive and mutually respectful relationships at all levels in the organisation, championing inclusion and equality of opportunity.
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.
At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.
At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
• Lead the nursing element on the introduction of nursing apprenticeships to the organisation at scale.
• Work with key corporate colleagues in EPRR to ensure the role out of fire training and simulated evacuation, distribution, and shift presence of fire wardens across the departments on all sites.
• To work with key EPRR colleagues to ensure COSHH compliance in all wards and departments.
• Support the organisation with risk and governance related aspects of nursing workforce, specifically supporting delivery of rostering improvement plans.
• Work with divisional colleagues to explore and support the potential roll out of the national uniform strategy.
• Lead the PPI team to continue to deliver a person-centred and enhanced patient experience offer.
• Together with the Deputy Chief Nurse support the development, implementation and monitoring of the Nursing Vision and assist in the delivery of ward accreditation across the Trust.
• Deliver projects as specified by the Chief Nursing Officer
• To provide visible, compassionate and values led senior leadership and support throughout the organisation including specific focus within the Nursing, AHP and Quality Directorate so that staff remain highly motivated, passionate, proud, resilient, and well equipped to provide excellent/outstanding care.
• The post holder will work with other professions so that a multi professional leadership approach and vision is embedded across the organisation to ensure that high quality compassionate care is delivered.
• The post holder will form excellent working relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders through effective communication.
• Presents all types of information, including highly complex service information, to large groups which will involve high degrees of tact and diplomacy and where barriers to understanding exist.
This advert closes on Thursday 16 May 2024
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