Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing Leadership/AHP Leadership
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 434-CORP-6235131
- Employer
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cross-Site
- Town
- Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Amersham, Buckinghamshire
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/05/2024
Employer heading
Lead Nurse/Lead of Professions
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
- provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
- nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
- regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
- deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
Are you on your leadership journey? Are you a highly motivated individual who strives for continuous improvement? Then join us as we improve our clinical services and delivery of safe, compassionate, and inclusive care.
Following our recent restructure, we are excited to announce that we are seeking 4 experienced Senior Nurses or Allied Health Care Professionals to join our Senior Leadership team.
Why Now?
Rated by the CQC as outstanding for caring, you will work as an integral part of the senior care group leadership team, and you will lead a large group of professionals creating cultures where colleagues are able to speak up and learn.
Main duties of the job
(Post 1) Lead Nurse/ Lead of Professions – Surgery and Critical Care Group:
- Wycombe hospital based at our Wycombe elective Surgical Centre (WESC)
- Core portfolios include Theatres & all elective pathways
- Site co-ordination supporting the Head of Operations /Head of Planned Care
(Post 2) Lead Nurse/ Lead of Professions – Surgery and Critical Care Group:
- Stoke hospital based
- Core portfolios include all emergency pathways
- Site co-ordination with the Head of Operations / Head of Planned Care
(Post 3) Lead Nurse/ Lead of professions – Community and Rehabilitation Care Group; National Spinal Injuries Centre:
- Based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
- Core portfolio includes all patient pathways for adult and paediatric patients with spinal cord injury (SCI).
- Services also provide outpatient and Outreach services across the South East of England.
- Site co-ordination with the Heads of Service
- Key relationship with NHSE for SCI.
(Post 4) Lead Nurse/ Lead of professions – Integrated Medicine Care Group:
- Based across 3 hospital sites.
- Core portfolio includes Emergency Department, Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC), Same Day Emergency Care Unit (SDEC) and the Acute Medical wards.
- Services also provide Gastroenterology, Endoscopy, Rheumatology, Respiratory, Dermatology, Endocrinology and Diabetes and Cardiovascular (Cardiology & Stroke) medicine, which include the in-patient wards, community services.
- Site co-ordination with the Heads of Service
Working for our organisation
Why colleagues think we are "a great place to work!"
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact [email protected] (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Why Us?
We are on an improvement journey!
As one of a few integrated acute and community Trusts Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust provide a wide range of high quality acute and community services. You will be integral to the implementation and delivery the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF), and ensure improvements, learning and innovation which improve patient safety and patient experience. You will be expected to work to make continuous improvement, ensuring our communities are at the centre of our improvement journey.
What is involved?
- Leading a large group of Nursing and AHP professionals.
- Creating and nurturing a culture where colleagues feel included, able to speak up, learn and grow together.
- Accountability for the development and performance management of all Nursing & AHP staff to enable delivery of the Trust’s Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Strategy,
- Responsibility for ensuring the delivery of high-quality care within their areas of service.
Benefits?
Be part of an exciting new future for one of our essential and rewarding services by joining our team.
In return for your skills and depth of experience we offer great support, development, health, and well-being benefits.
Flexible/Hybrid working. Cross site cover is required in all roles.
NOTE: Please specify within your supporting information, which area/position would be your preference.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS& TRAINING
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/AHP
- Relevant Degree or recordable qualification
- Relevant Master’s degree or Equivalent
- Evidence of recent on-going development
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience at Senior Nurse level or equivalent
- Proven experience in development and implementation of corporate and professional strategies
- Proven experience in the implementation and monitoring of quality measurement and improvement tools
- Demonstrable experience of improving patient experience in a range of settings
- Demonstrable experience of improving patient safety at service or organisational level
- Experience of chairing meetings and managing diverse attendance and contributions
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Has excellent standard of written and verbal communication skills
- Has excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to successfully negotiate with and influence others
- Ability to engage with and successfully convey highly complex information and concepts to audiences at all levels in the organisation
- Is well organised and able to prioritise own workload effectively, delivering to deadlines
- Is fully conversant with national NHS reform initiatives, workforce changes and applicable policy
- Is conversant with methodologies for improving staff performance
- Can demonstrate strategic thinking and is able to see the "bigger picture"
- Understanding of Information and Clinical Governance / risk management
- Ability to analyse & interpret highly complex information
- Has experience of managing change and understands the principles of successful change management
- Exceptional leadership qualities with the ability to lead, manage and motivate several multidisciplinary teams into achieving a common goal
- Has experience of external collaborative working and understanding of the challenges of working within a specialist commissioned area.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Essential criteria
- Is confident and demonstrates a positive, solutions orientated attitude
- Demonstrates supportive and empathetic approach to all people
- Able to "engage" with and truly listen to others
- Innovative and creative approach to solving problems
- Reliable, honest and trustworthy Has integrity
- Is self-motivated and able to motivate others
- Able to manage self and others during tension or conflict
- Able to deal with issues in a confidential non- judgmental way
- Is flexible and responsive to rapidly changing situations
- Can accept and act on constructive advice
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Essential criteria
- Able to travel to other sites and off sites as necessary Cross cover for 2nd Lead nurse colleague during annual leave / non-working days/ sickness etc
Values
Essential criteria
- Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
- Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
- Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued.
- Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
If you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.
Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Saba Asadullah
- Job title
- Recruitment Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Further Information: If you would like further information or to arrange informal discussions/visits with the Care Group Director of Nursing & Director of Operations, please contact:
Helen Byrne @ [email protected] Director of Operations – Integrated Medicine
Pranavi Ramachandra @ [email protected] Surgical and Critical Care Group PA
Carl Bruce @ [email protected] Community and Rehabilitation Care Group PA
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