Job vacancy: Band 9 - Director of Governance, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Watford

Job summary

Main area: Corporate
Grade: Band 9
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 360-E-5718

Employer: West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Watford General Hospital
Town: Watford
Salary: £101,902 - £116,960 pa inc HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: Today at 23:59

Band 9 - Director of Governance

Band 9

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Working with the Chief Nurse and Chief Medical Officer to deliver a robust and evolving quality assurance framework and governance structure to ensure accountability and transparency and where quality assurance is integrated alongside quality improvements.

The key areas of work include but are not limited to reduction of clinical and non-clinical risk, ensuring robust incident investigations and that processes are in place for acting on recommendations and learning from such, provision of legal services and ensuring effective oversight of the ward to Board quality governance.

The post holder will ensure that there is a robust quality assurance framework and governance structure and its associated accountability framework.

Qualifications:

1. Band 8D and above Registered Nurse (or equivalent Allied Health Professional) qualification (or demonstrably equivalent experience).

2. Extensive experience in a senior leadership role within healthcare governance.

3. Proven strategic thinking and leadership skills.

4. In-depth knowledge of healthcare management principles.

5. Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.

Person specification

Education and Qualification

Essential criteria

Masters/Higher degree or equivalent supplemented by specialist training to doctorate or equivalent level
Research skills and experience.
NHS leadership development programmes (or equivalent).
Post graduate management qualification and continuing professional/managerial and leadership development.
Evidence of ongoing professional development and education.

Experience

Essential criteria

A significant track record of achievement at a senior managerial level in a large complex organisation preferably within the NHS.
Broad experience of leading teams of staff within a multidisciplinary environment, and in a performance managed culture.
Significant experience of working at a senior level within a complex organisation.
Significant financial experience, budget management.
Demonstrable success in influencing organisations to implement beneficial change.
Demonstrate a track record of strategy development, including producing high level strategic documents and plans to internal executive teams and external agencies.
Significant experience of building effective multi-disciplinary teams and networks, including across organisation boundaries

Skills

Essential criteria

The ability to motivate and enthuse staff and to demonstrate this in the achievement of results at a practical level.
A demonstrable ability to effect change.
Awareness of own strengths and weaknesses.
The ability to influence Board members and key stakeholders and develop positive and respected relationships with them.
Detailed knowledge of integrated governance and regulatory systems and requirements.
Outstanding and demonstrable leadership qualities.
Ability to manage complex clinical and operational situations that involve staff from all levels within an organisation and across a range of professional boundaries.
Good understanding of the strategic issues currently shaping the NHS.
Understanding of local and national political context.
Ability to think strategically, operate independently, proposing and implementing service policy change and implementation.
Have the analytical skill to absorb highly complex qualitative or quantitative data requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison with other data sets.
Effective negotiating diplomacy and influencing skills.
Ability to concentrate on specific and highly complex matters, whilst dealing with unplanned interruptions requiring immediate response
Excellent keyboard skills to ensure the post-holder can manage the highly complex demands of managing and manipulating information at all levels, and provide reports.
Good time management and administrative ability.

Disposition/ Adjustment

Essential criteria

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills at all levels, including clinical staff.
Self-starter – natural leadership ability.
Able to work and remain calm under pressure.
Able to manage periods of frequent concentration but with interruptions to deal with service issues.
Methodical with attention to detail

Training

Essential criteria

Mandatory training.
Willingness to undergo additional training and development to contribute to effective delivery of the role

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute healthcare services to a core catchment population of approximately half a million people living in west Hertfordshire and the surrounding area. Overall, the population served by the Trust is relatively affluent, but there are some areas of deprivation.

The Trust also provides a range of more specialist services to a wider population, serving residents of North London, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and East Hertfordshire.

As an employer of over 4,000 people the Trust is one of the biggest employers in the area and sees nearly a million patients each year.

We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” if the below applies to you.

You are:

A Service Leaver
A Veteran
A Military Reserve
A Cadet Force Adult Volunteer
Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces

Committed to being an Inclusive Employer

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

Job Description (PDF, 504.6KB)

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Chloe Field
Job title: Head of Recruitment
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 07341 429478

If you have problems applying, contact

Address: Watford General Hospital
Vicarage Road
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD18 0HB
Telephone: 01442 365235, or 07423032842

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