Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 9
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Job ref
- 200-NN-6228414-N&M-Y
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Epsom Hospital
- Town
- Epsom
- Salary
- £107,637 - £122,695 per annum pro-rata incl
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Site Chief Nursing Officer
Band 9
Job overview
The Site Deputy Chief Nursing Officer (DCNO) is required to work at pace to support the Site Nursing and Medical Leadership Team and regularly interact with healthcare professionals and patients. Consequently, the DCNO may need to work long hours, including weekends and holidays, depending on the needs of the hospital.
As an integral part of the professional nursing senior leadership team they will work proactively with senior colleagues to provide professional leadership and support operational delivery of services at Site with strategic oversight and support from a lead at Group.
They are responsible for supporting the Site CNO with overseeing and coordinating the hospital’s nursing department and its daily operations. Together the Site DCNO and Site CNO’s primary focus is on Site leadership for day to day operational issues and the provision of support to Group Corporate Functions, Site Nursing and Medical Leadership and Site clinical divisions.
Together with the Site CNO they are responsible by working in partnership with Group colleagues for the delivery of all nursing strategies with reference to 12 service functions which will be managed and overseen at Group.
Proposed interview date: week of 20th May
Main duties of the job
Led by the Site CNO, the DCNO and Site Nursing Teams are responsible for day to day quality and safety on site, alongside the Site Chief Medical Officer (CMO). The Site DCNO and Nursing Teams are accountable for operational service delivery on Site in conjunction with the COO and CMO as directed by the Managing Director.
In addition to site-based focus and leadership the Site DCNO will support the Site CNO in their professional leadership and operational responsibility for a group wide function (as agreed with Site CNO colleagues and delegated by the GCNO). They will support the strategic oversight of this function with additional support from a Group lead in coordination and delivery. The Site Deputy CNO together with the Site CNO also holds responsibility for patient experience on the Site.
The Site Deputy CNO will support the Site CNO and work in partnership with Group to provide collective leadership of Professional Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Healthcare Professionals in all 12 Corporate Nursing Functions.
Working for our organisation
After many years of collaboration and creating closer working ties, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust formed a hospital group and appointed a Group Chief Executive in August 2021 (following the appointment of a Chairman in Common in 2019) and a single executive team in January 2022.
Working as a hospital group under one executive leadership team allows for more joined up decision making for local people, a larger and more resilient clinical workforce, reduced variation in care and access to a wider range of services for our patients.
The Group Chief Nurse (GCNO) and Group Chief Medical Officer (CMO) are the Executive Directors jointly accountable to the Trust Boards for the delivery of the quality and safety agenda, including patient experience.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Offer senior nursing opinion and ensure senior opinion in decision making when required as a core member of the Site Senior Leadership Team
- Lead discussions on highly complex and/ or sensitive issues in situations such as complex and sensitive patient and family meetings, coroners court, disciplinary meetings and employment tribunals.
- Have responsibility for the day to day operational delivery of the nursing/midwifery and AHP functions at Site, working with the Site CNO, Site teams and Group Directors
- Ensure that systems of assurance are in place at site to monitor and minimise risks to patients
- Provide professional leadership to all services included in the Clinical Standards (Fundamentals of Care) Function by ensuring that key nursing indicators are reflected in a balanced scorecard for nursing – includes falls, tissue viability, nutrition, sepsis, older people’s services, VTE prevention, back care, resus
- Ensure collaborative and partnership working with all services at Group
- Provide strong, visible leadership to the nursing and midwifery profession, encouraging innovation, creativity and strategic development of service provision.
- Support the Group CNO in their capacity as Director of Infection Prevention and Control, ensuring that patients risk of infection is minimised, and that the Trust is fully compliant with national standards and expectations.
- Ensure a consistent culture of putting the patient first along with effective team working across all sites and clinical services.
- Promote and support group-led functions such as safeguarding and patient experience, and strategies and clinical collaboration and implement national strategy relevant to nursing and midwifery.
- Support the Group CNO to maintain robust systems for clinical governance, ensuring there are appropriate systems (including information) in place to monitor performance, minimise avoidable harm and identify areas for improvement and support the Group CNO in delivering consistent clinical governance practice across the Group including effective Ward to Board reporting
- In conjunction with the Site and Group Chief Nurse collaborate in the annual nursing establishment review to ensure safe staffing and inform any investment requirements in nursing
- Have professional responsibility for all site nurse leaders for nursing, midwifery and AHP issues at Site
- Provide strong, visible leadership to the site nursing, AHP and midwifery workforce
- Have responsibility for supporting the operational delivery of Corporate Nursing strategies and functions at Site
- Be responsible for the operational service delivery on site in conjunction with the CNO, COO and CMO, as directed by the managing Director.
- Hold responsibility for day to day patient experience at Site
- Work with the leads for nursing functions at Site to address patient quality and safety issues locally as far as possible
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- • Educated to masters level (or equivalent)
Essential
Essential criteria
- Clinical qualification and NMC registered
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Theresa Matthews
- Job title
- Site Chief Nursing officer (ESTH)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07939032411
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