Divisional Director for Nursing and Quality for Children | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 22 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £83,571 - £96,376 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2024 |
| Location: | Stevenage, SG1 4AB |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6269313/361-WC-6269313 |
Summary
We are recruiting for a Divisional Director for Nursing and Quality for Children who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Reporting to the Divisional Director for Women and Children's Divisional Director for Nursing and Quality for Children and Young people will work as part of a quadrant within Women and Children's services that includes a Divisional Medical Director, Divisional Director of Operations, and the Director of Midwifery. The Divisional Director for Nursing and Quality for Children and Young people will provide senior strategic visible clinical and professional leadership, for nursing and allied health professions working within Paediatrics and neonatology.
Providing specialist expertise and taking specific responsibility for patient safety, quality and experience, the post holder will promote quality, innovation, productivity, and performance that improves quality of care and patient outcomes, driving transformation through agreed improvement models.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
The Divisional Director for Nursing and Quality for Children will provide highly visible and inspiring nursing leadership to all nurses and support roles. Championing a professional and open culture which empowers staff to deliver quality care with compassion acting as a role model for the behaviours and high professional standards which are expected.
Be accountable for the creation of an environment in which efficient delivery of safe patient care is in line with the fundamental and evidenced based standards to ensure a framework of safe practices exists.
Be responsible in actively participating, contributing, and implementing the Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Strategy and the Quality Strategy across the Division.
Actively participate in the Clinical Excellence pathway, ensuring that all clinical areas progress through the local accreditation framework to achieve excellence within their sphere of responsibility. Develop and enable leadership through a shared governance pathway.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 4 Jun 2024