Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 343-6689736-RB-SK
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Epsom and St Helier
- Town
- Sutton
- Salary
- £80,025 - £91,336 per anumum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/10/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/11/2024
Employer heading
Associate Director of Nursing Medicine Division
Band 8c
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
To work with the Director of Nursing, Divisional Director of Operations, and Medical Director to meet the division’s key performance targets, leading effective and efficient delivery operational and clinical services with particular emphasis on effective clinical care, as well as implementing the strategic, financial and operational plans and efficiently deploying the resources of the Directorate.
The post holder will be the lead professional for nurses and nursing teams with Medicine and be an advocate for patients, families and carers in the achievement of clinical excellence. Locally, the post holder will lead on optimising and strengthening the role and responsibility of nurses within the service, ensuring nursing workforce resilience and succession planning.
The Associate Director of Nursing will support the Divisional Director of Nursing at a strategic and operational level and work together to cover the Inpatient/Outpatient Medicine with a strong focus on planned care element in medicine. You will provide visible professional nursing supporting our team of Clinical Nurse Specialists and Advanced Practitioners and support teams to achieve the implementation of the Trusts vision and key priorities.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
Working for our organisation
As teaching hospitals, we play a key role in the education and training of tomorrow's doctors, nurses and other health professionals. Both sites work in partnership with St George’s Hospital and St George’s Medical School in south London to deliver high quality education and research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Associate Director of Nursing Medicine Division role at Epsom and St Helier.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse / Midwife.
- Evidence of significant professional and managerial development
- 1st level degree or equivalent
- Recognised teaching and assessing certificate.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience and achievement in a senior clinical nursing role.
- Evidence of delivering complex change involving wide engagement
- Demonstrable experience of people management including experience of chairing capability / disciplinary hearings.
- Experience of holding staff to account for poor performance, and previous experience of being accountable for the delivery of clinical / nursing services.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate expert clinical and nursing knowledge.
- Ability to effectively manage resources to deliver sustained improvement
- Significant budgetary experience and demonstrable experience of achieving financial savings without compromising clinical care.
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected]. Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Anne Powell
- Job title
- Divisional Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07814543088
- Additional information
Please call for further information into the role. We would welcome all candidates to come for an informal visit.
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