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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Managing teams within a highly complex environment taking in to account the ethnically diverse nature of staff and patients
• To provide a clear sense of purpose by being open, consistent and is able to encourage others so as to get the best of team members in order to achieve results
• Work with the Head of Nursing to translate the Trust’s vision and the Nursing Strategy in to a narrative that inspires staff within the division and gives them clear objectives for the delivery of care
• Support the bed management team with advice and assistance to ensure that patient safety and experience of care remains at a consistent and acceptable level.
• Ensure that feedback is gathered from patients, service users and colleagues in order to help to develop services
• Identify suboptimal practice, investigate and take corrective action being cognisant of the NMC Codes of Practice
• Ensure that care planning is undertaken to an adequate standard within the area of responsibility and hold staff accountable for undertaking this
• Participate in divisional meetings in relation to the financial, performance and quality aspects required in order to deliver the service
• To teach and mentor others, including junior staff, students and other disciplines
• Identify areas for service improvement and gain divisional agreement to proceed by presenting supporting evidence
• Review current service delivery and identify opportunities to minimise waste and ineffectual working practices
• Lead clinical case reviews as required by the incident management process.
• Support ward managers to manage budgets effectively and identify any areas of concern or risk to quality
• In conjunction with the divisional management team, identify and implement cost improvement programmes
• To employ strategies to manage conflict and differences of opinion being sensitive to the ethnically diverse population in relation to both patients and staff
• To manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources
• Ensure that all staff have an up to date appraisal and development plan so facilitating all staff to reach their full potential
• To support nurses dealing with complex cases, providing support and guidance as required
• To be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work and that of other nurses within the team and ensure that professional registration is maintained by the nurses

Inclusive Recruitment & Selection

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.

We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: [email protected]

We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Children’s being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at [email protected]

Trust Values

The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:

• Compassion – leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
• Accountability – striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
• Respect – value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
• Excellence – delivering a high-quality standard of care