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Job overview

To provide professional leadership for health visiting ensuring  safe and effective quality of care is delivered within the resources available while ensuring  the care environment is organised to meet the needs of the patient enhancing their experience and supporting staff to meet the Divisional and Trust objectives through:

• The provision of visible, authoritative professional leadership support and direction for health visiting and by ensuring standards of practice and care are set and maintained.
• Ensuring that safe, high quality clinical services are delivered in line with national policy, Trust priorities, available evidence, and patient care needs.
• Lead programmes of improvement work related to patient harm, falls, pressure ulcer prevention and to support the delivery of the Trust and directorate clinical governance

Main duties of the job

The Main Tasks & Overview of Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain communication with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations.

Develop oneself and contribute to the development of others.

Maintain and develop an environment and culture that improves health, safety and security.

Appraise, interpret and apply suggestions, recommendations and directives to improve services.

Contribute to improving quality as part of the governance agenda

Promote equality and value diversity.

Plan, deliver and evaluate interventions and or treatments when there are complex issues including safeguarding and SEND.

Test and review new concepts, models, methods practices whilst working in partnership with other stakeholders.

Coordinate, monitor and review the use of financial resources.

Plan, develop, monitor and review the recruitment, deployment and management of people.

Facilitate the development of capacity and capability.

Provide clear leadership across the services.

Support the development of business cases as appropriate.

To adhere at all times to the NMC Code

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.