Job description

Job responsibilities

Leadership

• To effectively manage the corporate nursing teams, people, regulatory activities and other resources of designated portfolio services to ensure high quality and efficient services that provide value for money within appropriate resources.
• Strategic and operational nursing and clinical service planning for BTH; PLACE and ICS including development and delivery of ICS/Trust Clinical Strategy; Quality and Patient Experience Strategies; ensuring alignment with national strategy.
• System wide nursing professional advice and leadership; aligning this to national strategy and professional regulation.
• Workforce and system design for service integration.
• Strategic nurse workforce and service development planning and investment, with Professional Trust wide regulatory oversight, financial control,governance and assurance.
• Share in the responsibility for the achievement of excellent communications with clinical and governance staff and with operational/HR/OD and finance colleagues to ensure that improvement and delivery plans are inclusive, with shared ownership.
• Provide expert advice and support to the Executive Directors and to all those carrying management responsibilities within the Trust.
• Oversee the Corporate Nursing Directorate on a day to day basis for the Executive Chief Nurse.
• Oversee the delivery of the monthly nursing quality objectives and annual quality account to the highest professional standards.
• Represent the Executive Director of Nursing internally and externally in relation to nursing and corporate responsibilities, developing partnerships, sharing best practice and developing wider opportunities for developing clinical teams.
• Ensure the shared organizational vision, strategic aims, values and culture of the Trust are actively promoted, provide clear leadership and demonstrate this through being a role-model.
• To deliver on specific corporate programmes of improvement for Nursing and Midwifery.
• Lead the implementation and monitoring of key nursing and quality strategies, ensuring that the Trusts approach is in line with National Guidance and best practice. Providing support to the Divisional Directors of Nursing, Lead Allied Health Professional, Associate Directors of Nursing and Quality and The Director of Midwifery in the provision of high quality care to our patients.
• Provide expert professional advice and direction regarding clinical standards, appropriate treatment and statutory duties regarding clinical care.
• Advise and contribute to the development of new models of care delivery which lead to improved outcomes for patients and delivery of the Trust QEP programme.
• Will be the senior manager and budget holder for multiple departments and line manage key posts in the corporate nursing and clinical governance teams.
• Promote the vision, values and goals of the organisation in particular acting as a professional role model.
• To maintain effective relationships with colleagues, staff and external partners to support the delivery of the Trusts strategic objectives.
• To work with the Executive Director of Nursing and Medical Director in overseeing the delivery of the Trusts Quality Strategy and support systems in order to continually improve quality, safety and patient experience.
• To participate in the Trust Duty Director on call rota.

Clinical Governance

• To lead on the reduction of clinical risk and avoidable harm to patients through the maintenance of robust risk management, complaint resolution and untoward incident investigation ensuring that the Trust disseminates and learns lessons from experience.
• Provide assurance and reports on the Trusts clinical governance performance to the relevant Trust committees.
• To work collaboratively with the Deputy Director of Quality Governance on the development and application of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements that ensure full compliance with internal and external governance requirements.
• To monitor and manage clinical risk, supporting the production of risk assessments within Trust Departments and adherence to the Trust Risk Management framework.
• Advise/Appraise the Executive Director of Nursing and Executive Medical Director on changes in national policy/legislation in relation to the Clinical Governance agenda.
• Work closely with the Deputy Director for Quality Governaance in leading and co-ordinating investigations into serious incidents/adverse events, complaints and claims ensuring analysis of themes and lessons learned.
• Work closely with the Executive Team, Divisional management teams and Quality Managers in the implementation of clinical governance, assurance and safety across the organisation.
• To work with the Executive Director of Nursing and Medical Director to ensure that clinical governance is embedded within the everyday practice of all clinical professionals.
• Ensure standards are being met and maintained against the NHSLA risk management standards and CNST standards.
• Take the lead in ensuring the maintenance and monitoring of CQC outcomes.
• Manage the development implementation and evaluation of the ward/community to board performance framework ensuring continuous benchmarking and performance management of the outcomes, implementation of remedial recovery plans or sharing of best practice across the nursing and midwifery disciplines.
• Working with Divisional Directors of Nursing/Director of Midwifery, develop and review workforce plans for nursing and midwifery, providing advice on issues of skills mix, deployment and utilisation of the nursing workforce.

Education

• To lead the Trust approach to Nursing and Midwifery education and practice, working with the Divisional Directors of Nursing/Director of Midwifery/Allied Health Professional Lead who are responsible for the delivery across the Divisions for this agenda.
• To be the Trust Pre-reg and Post-reg Education lead and work in partnership with liaising with relevant Universities and Higher Education Institutions.
• Ensure that the Trust meets its responsibilities to provide clinical experience, and mentor support for pre and post registration nurse education in line with local and national requirements.
• To support the delivery of continuous development for Nurses and Midwives.
• To be the senior nurse lead on the development of the Patient Environment including PLACE and Privacy and Dignity agenda, working closely with the Infection Prevention Team and Estates/Facilities management departments.

Direct line management

• Executive Director of Nursing

Performance Review

Objectives for the post will be the subject of overall agreement and regular review between the post holder and the Executive Director of Nursing.

Summary

This Job Profile is an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities of the Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality and is not intended as an exhaustive list. The job may change over time to reflect the changing needs of the Trust and its services, as well as the personal development needs of the post holder. A review of Director portfolios is currently underway meaning that the portfolio for this role may be expanded further.

Health, Safety and Security

All employees have a duty to report any accidents, complaints, defects in equipment, near misses and untoward incidents, following Trust procedure.

To ensure that Health and Safety legislation is complied with at all times, including COSHH, Workplace Risk Assessment and Control of Infection.

Confidentiality

Working within the trust you may gain knowledge of confidential matters which may include personal and medical information about patients and staff. Such information must be considered strictly confidential and must not be discussed or disclosed. Failure to observe this confidentiality could lead to disciplinary action being taken against you.

Codes of Conduct and Accountability

You are expected to comply with relevant Trust codes of conduct and accountability.

Infection Prevention and Control

You must comply with all relevant policies, procedures and training on infection prevention and control.

Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults

You must comply with all relevant policies, procedures and training on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

Valuing Diversity and Promoting Equality

You must comply with all relevant policies, procedures and training on valuing diversity and promoting equality.

Training

Managers are required to take responsibility for their own and their staffs development.

All employees have a duty to attend all mandatory training sessions as required by the Trust.

NHS Code of Conduct for Managers

The NHS Code of Conduct for NHS Managers outlines the central standards of conduct expected of NHS Managers and seeks to guide them in the work they do and, in their decision, making. The Code is also intended to assure the public of the high professional standards and accountability within NHS Management

The Code applies to all Chief Executives and Directors in the NHS and also to other Senior Manager positions with a similar responsibility and accountability. The Code applies to this post and the post holder will be required to abide by its terms.

General

Any other general requirements as appropriate to the post and location

The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give a broad flavour of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the postholder.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience as a senior nurse leader within an NHS organization
• Significant experience as a senior professional or Management role
• Proven experience of leading and coordinating complex investigations and enquiries and establishing positive relationships with external bodies involved in regulation and inspection
• Experience of managing individual teams
• Demonstrate experience of leading clinical governance functions including risk and assurance processes
• Highly developed leadership skills
• Evidence of leading quality and patient safety improvement to implement sustainable change

Desirable

• Hospital and Community experience
• Experience of working at sub board level

Knowledge

Essential

• Sound knowledge base of the NHS, the current issues, its values and principles of timely local access for the population
• In depth knowledge of the relevant professional agenda
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance
• Knowledge of educational requirements for nurses and midwives

Desirable

• Knowledge of Patient and Public Involvement agenda
• Knowledge of Infection Prevention agenda
• Knowledge of Service Improvement agenda

Qualifications

Essential

• 1st level Registered Nurse/Midwife (registered with NMC)
• Masters Degree
• Management qualification and evidence of continued professional development

Skills

Essential

• Proven ability to deal with a wide range of data and information and take appropriate decisions from it
• A proven ability to come up with flexible and creative solutions to difficult problems
• Excellent collaborative working skills and able to build strong relationships with professional staff groups
• Proven ability to influence and change those groups
• Proven ability of leading change through people
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - ability to negotiate and influence in difficult and contentious situations
• A strong commitment to openness, honesty and inclusiveness
• Effective change management skills for areas of policy and practice
• Ability to produce clear and accurate written and verbal reports
• Ability to analyse complex information including relevant policy and the translation into strategy and policy
• Keyboard skills
• Political awareness
• Experience of external regulation, assurance and accreditation
• Experience of managing a budget

Other

Essential

• Requirement to participate in the Duty Director On Call Rota

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .

Employer details

Employer name

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals

Whinney Heys road

Blackpool

FY3 8NR