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Operations
Gradd
Band 9
Contract
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Oriau
Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos
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275-2502DDoN-S&A
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Medway NHS Foundation Trust
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NHS
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Medway Maritime Hospital
Tref
Gillingham
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£105,385 - £121,271 per annum/pro rata
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09/03/2025 23:59

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Medway NHS Foundation Trust logo

Divisional Director of Nursing for Surgery & Anaesthetics Division

Band 9

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.

Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

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Divisional Director of Nursing/Deputy Chief Nurse for Surgery & Anaesthetics

Salary: £105,385 - £121,271 per annum/pro rata

Interview Date: To be Confirmed 

We are recruiting for a Divisional Director of Nursing for Surgery & Anaesthetics who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.  

To lead and be accountable for providing strong, visible, professional leadership and focus for the delivery of the best of care throughout the Division.  You will be accountable for all of the services across the Division ensuring high-quality, flexible and responsive service delivery. 

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

The Divisional Director of Nursing will contribute to delivery of the Trust's strategic plan, by working in partnership with the Divisional Leadership teams and external health economy partners to achieve the Trust's corporate objectives and to make a positive contribution to ensuring that the care provided is safe, personal and effective.

You, together with the Divisional Director of Operations and the Divisional Medical Director,  will be accountable for the strategic leadership, planning and operational delivery of multiple services, and will hold corporate responsibility for the performance management of their services in the delivery of quality and operational standards.  

Our values are Bold, Every person Counts, Sharing and Open and TogetherIt is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

The role will also support aspects of clinical governance compliance and assurance related to the programme, ensuring safe and effective use of all resources.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies/procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process. 

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B – Bold

E – Every person counts

S – Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl

Be the Divisional Lead for complaints and patient experience. To ensure patients and users of the services are given the opportunity to feedback on their experiences and to be involved in service development and redesign.

 

Lead, inspire and develop the nursing workforce within the Division to deliver high quality, patient centred nursing care that meets the needs of the patient using highly specialist knowledge.

 

Ensure  the  Division  has  a  comprehensive,  progressive  and  sufficientlrobust  systemof internal control in place to implement and monitor the Patient First Strategy, so as to ensure the Trust consistently delivers on its vision of Exceptional healthcare, personally delivered, are established and working effectively from ward to Board.

 

Provide strategic nursing leadership in order to consistently develop high quality, safe and cost effective nursing services for patients, the post holder is responsible for clinical risk and quality governance  within the  division and  provides  professional  leadership to all  staff  within  the division including developing the clinical leadership capability.

 

Be responsible to the  Chief Operating Officer and professionally accountable to the Chief Nursing Officer.

 

Support the Chief Nursing Officer with the delivery of a wider corporate nursing and quality agenda including (but not limited too) patient safety, patient experience, improved outcomes and the delivery of the Trusts Patient First Strategy for Nursing, Midwifery and  Allied Health Professionals (AHP) which will strengthen the nursing voice and secure the workforce of the future.

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Qualifications

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Registered and practicing nurse with current live NMC registration
  • Degree in nursing or clinical subject
  • Doctorate’ Degree in relevant subject supplemented further by evidence of continuing professional
  • Post graduate management qualification ow equivalent leadership experience
  • Recognised leadership course
  • Evidence of comprehensive continuing personal and professional development
  • Working minimum at band 8c level or equivalent

Knowledge

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  • Ability to think, develop, plan and implement strategically, tactically and creatively
  • Influence at a strategic level across and beyond complex organisations
  • Prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands Professionally credibility with staff – in particular senior clinical and managerial staff
  • Ability to influence, guide, persuade and negotiate at an organisational and externally with a range of stakeholders
  • Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
  • An innovative and creative approach and ability to inspire and ability to enthuse others
  • Ability to develop strategic priorities and to organise staff and resources to achieve high quality patient care and delivery of health care targets
  • Enthusiastic about ensuring services and care is good for patients
  • Must be able to deal with frequent interruptions, meet deadlines and concentrate for lengthy periods of time
  • Champion for excellent patient care and quality

Experience

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Extensive senior clinical management experience relevant to the post
  • Extensive experience of working as a senior nurse in leadership and management role in a health care environment, of which should be above band 8c level and at least 2 at Divisional Management level or equivalent, in another acute hospital
  • Experience of managing an operational team, targets and budgets
  • Demonstrable previous success in leading and delivering significant change and performance with and through multiple and diverse clinical teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
  • Experience of multi-agency working
  • Experience of working with patients/service users to improve their experience
  • Experience in implementing safety/quality initiatives and service improvement projects
  • Experience in setting objectives and performance management and holding staff to account
  • Experience of effective workforce planning, and can demonstrate an understanding of establishment and acuity and dependency tools. Significant management experience which includes but is not limited to the NHS
  • Experience in providing advice on complex professional issues to the executive/non- executive team and all other levels of the organisation, external agencies and stakeholders e.g. NHSi/e, CCG etc.
  • Experience of producing high quality reports in a timely manner for consideration at senior level internally and externally

Skills

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Excellent well developed leadership, influencing and motivational skills to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust’s and your performance expectations and delivery of corporate objectives
  • Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
  • Excellent inter-personal skills with the ability to positively interact in difficult, highly emotive and potentially hostile situations, including to distressed and or large groups of people in a politically aware and sensitive manner
  • Highly developed communication skills, with the ability to deliver presentations and represent the Trust in the media
  • Ability to interpret highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information where there are significant barriers
  • Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief ‘up the line’
  • A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals
  • Advanced planning and organisational skills – able to lead/organise multiple projects ensuring timely delivery of goals and milestones

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Nick Sinclair
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Chief Operating Officer
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Please also include 

Sarah Vaux, Interim Chief Nurse

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