Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 10 months (Until 31 August 2025 - Secondment only for NHSE employees)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-MID-6769403-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Flexible across the Midlands
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Professional Standards Senior Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Midlands Nursing Directorate and the Policy and Strategy Team as the Professional Standards Senior Manager.
The post holder will support the work of the Policy & Strategy Team within the Nursing Directorate with a key role in supporting to deliver strategic Nursing and Midwifery priorities, with particular focus on: N&M Excellence; Greener N&M Practice; Equality Diversity & Inclusion; Embedding continuous Quality Improvement; Research & Innovation; Leadership & Professional Development.
The will act as a regional champion for these programmes of work within the Policy & Strategy portfolio, working with regional, national NHSE teams, systems, providers and wider key stakeholders across the health and care system to provide clinical and professional leadership, support and interventions.
Main duties of the job
This Professional Standards Senior Manager role is an integral part of the regional nursing and midwifery team at NHS England working with the Deputy to the Regional Chief Nurse, Regional leadership team, statutory partners and the local health economy.
The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Midlands Region/Nursing Directorate.
The post holder will act as a regional champion for the functions within the policy & strategy team and will define current processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We welcome applications from anyone wishing to explore opportunities as a stepping stone in support of future career aspirations.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
For further details / informal visits contact: [email protected]
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Clinically qualified with current NMC or relevant professional registration
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
- Member of relevant professional body
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience in a healthcare environment
- Proven experience of delivering complex change and strategy development programmes within a politically sensitive and complex environment
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in partnership environment
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification
- Experience of budgetary responsible, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processe
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Experience of building effective cross functional working relationships to drive organisational agenda
Desirable criteria
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
- Demonstrable skills in presenting complex concepts and information which may include difficult and controversial issues, across a wide range of audiences
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
- Demonstrable experience developing, managing and motivating teams/individuals to ensure success
Desirable criteria
- Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Bayley
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Nursing Policy & Strategy
- Email address
- [email protected]
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