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We are looking for a Chief Nurse to join us at the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.  If you are a collaborative, compassionate, innovative and experienced Chief Nurse we hope this role will be of interest to you.

 The UHN Group includes Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust with a combined turnover of circa £900M and 11,000 employees.  Working together KGH and NGH serve the healthcare needs of a population of 2 million people.  As a university teaching hospital, teaching and research are important, with a focus on developing strong wide ranging academic partnerships leading to improved patient outcomes and exciting opportunities for colleagues.

The UHN Chief Nurse is a new role required following creation of a single executive team at UHN.  The role reports to the UHN Chief Executive Officer, is a voting Executive Director of both NGH and KGH Boards and is a pivotal role in the leadership of University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group (UHN).  

 At UHN we are focused on making tomorrow better than today for our patients and colleagues, ensuring we create a positive environment for all.  We are looking for a leader with strong personal impact, ambition and courage to lead our nursing, midwifery and AHP teams through the next challenging, but exciting, stages of our integration. 

Applications should be made by submitting a CV and short supporting statement (max two sides) by 26th July 2024 date.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

 Working as part of the Integrated Leadership Team (ILT), the Chief Nurse will provide expert advice to the Boards and colleagues on all clinical issues, and on nursing, midwifery and AHP professional matters. In partnership with the UHN Medical Director, the Chief Nurse will be responsible for providing strong and effective clinical leadership, improving and sustaining clinical practices and standards across all services and for all aspects of patient safety. The post holder will support professional development of nurses, midwives and AHPs at all levels, and will champion and embed a culture of quality improvement, effective clinical governance and great patient experience.

To be successful in the role you will need demonstrable experience of setting and delivering a long-term vision, whilst responding to short-term challenges and opportunities.  You will be able to demonstrate a record of building, leading, motivating and developing multi-disciplinary teams and, through your leadership of strategic transformation programmes, the delivery of continuous service improvement, successful outcomes and significant operational and service changes.  You will have experience of leading and supporting integration/collaboration across teams and organisations as well as working at system level to develop whole system approaches to improved care. 

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values

Compassion

Accountability

Respect

Integrity

Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.

The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.

We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.