Associate Director of Nursing: Emergency Care and Trauma

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Royal London and Mile End Hospitals Hospital as our Associate Director of Nursing for our ECAT division within the Barts Health Group. The Associate Director of Nursing is responsible for ensuring the provision of high-quality patient services within the Division of Emergency Care and Trauma (ECAT).

They are clinically sound, deliver cost effective services and meet the Trust's priorities, performance and quality standards.

The role of the Associate Director of Nursing is to provide strong local leadership to the Division and to balance strategic plans with clinical/nursing needs and the delivery of safe and high-quality care.The Associate Director of Nursing will provide strategic leadership at divisional level (and hospital or trust-wide level as required) ensuring that there is appropriate governance, systems and processes within the Division (hospital or trust) to enable staff to deliver good quality clinical care and drive forward the service and quality improvement agenda to achieve efficiency gains and improve the clinical effectiveness of the Division.

Main duties of the job

The Associate Director of Nursing and Governance is a key member of the site Nursing, Midwifery and AHPP Board, working with the Divisional Director and Director of Nursing to develop and implement the trust wide objectives to deliver evidence-based standards and to improve the care and experience of our patients.

The post holder is responsible for assuring professional standards and practice in all aspects of nursing and AHP's practice are achieved within their divisions, including the adherence to statutory regulations. The Associate Director of Nursing is responsible for ensuring the provision of high-quality patient services within the Division of Emergency Care and Trauma (ECAT).

They are clinically sound, deliver cost effective services and meet the Trust's priorities, performance and quality standards. The role of the Associate Director of Nursing is to provide strong local leadership to the Division and to balance strategic plans with clinical/nursing needs and the delivery of safe and high-quality care.

The Associate Director of Nursing will provide strategic leadership at divisional level (and hospital or trust-wide level as required) ensuring that there is appropriate governance, systems and processes within the Division (hospital or trust) to enable staff to deliver good quality clinical care and drive forward the service and quality improvement agenda to achieve efficiency gains and improve the clinical effectiveness of the Division.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers. Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond.

That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Person Specification

Qualifications · Essential

First Level Registered Nurse/Midwife Evidence of Post Graduate education in specialty field Evidence of ongoing, relevant postgraduate education Masters level education MSc in a relevant healthcare subject Management Qualification Teaching/mentoring qualification

Desirable

Coaching and Mentoring PGCE

Experience · Essential

Significant experience of working in a senior nursing role Evidence of managerial responsibilities & operational healthcare experience in an acute setting Ability to analyse complex problems and workable solutions to address them Take action based on own interpretation of broad clinical and professional policies, ability to advise divisional and site management teams on how these can be implemented.

Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands Ability to act with autonomy and freedom to act in decision making across the division, with collaboration within the divisional team and escalation to the Hospital Management team as necessary Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines & within resources.

Significant experience in the supervision of staff and students including HR issues Significant experience of audit in evaluating and developing services Manager on call Experience of managing other professional groups Experience of SLAs and contractual working Experience within specialism of the division Change and quality improvement management experience Significant experience of close multi-professional working in an in-patient environment Significant experience of representing therapies within a trust setting Significant experience of managing a budget and of managing budget holders.

Experience of teaching undergraduates and post graduate students Significant experience of working autonomously to lead a professional nursing group. Significant experience of transformational change and use of quality improvement initiatives to improve practice and service

Desirable

Experience of managing other professional groups Experience of SLAs and contractual working Experience within specialism of the division

Knowledge · Essential

Broad breadth related to above skills and significant managerial and leadership experience Sound evidence based knowledge in a specialist clinical area but with the ability to transfer Skills into other spheres of working. Awareness of developments in the NHS and service delivery and its impact on current services Good computer skills including presentation, data manipulation and spreadsheets.

Skills · Essential

Able to evaluate and be critical of self through reflective thinking To have confidence and evidenced experience of working across a number of subject areas- clinical, HR, quality improvement and finance.

Excellent communication, interpersonal skills and presentation skills Ability to initiate and implement and sustain change Good analytical and organisational ability as well as the ability to think critically Demonstrates strong leadership Have experience of setting up a new service or changing a service Ability to influence and facilitate MDT working To have effective problem solving skills Significant experience of implementing evidence based practice Be able to demonstrate effective risk assessment, audit and investigation skills Presentation and teaching skills

Desirable

Have experience of setting up a new service or changing a service

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) . From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).