Associate Director of Nursing: Emergency Care and Trauma

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Skills

  Able to evaluate and be critical of self through reflective thinking

• Skills

  To have confidence and evidenced experience of working across a number of subject areas- clinical, HR, quality improvement and finance.

• Skills

  Excellent communication, interpersonal skills and presentation skills

• Skills

  Ability to initiate and implement and sustain change

• Skills

  Good analytical and organisational ability as well as the ability to think critically

• Skills

  Demonstrates strong leadership

• Skills

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

• Skills

  Ability to influence and facilitate MDT working

• Skills

  To have effective problem solving skills

• Skills

  Significant experience of implementing evidence based practice

• Skills

  Be able to demonstrate effective risk assessment, audit and investigation skills

• Skills

  Presentation and teaching skills

• Knowledge

  Broad breadth related to above skills and significant managerial and leadership experience

• Knowledge

  Sound evidence based knowledge in a specialist clinical area but with the ability to transfer Skills into other spheres of working.

• Knowledge

  Awareness of developments in the NHS and service delivery and its impact on current services

• Knowledge

  Good computer skills including presentation, data manipulation and spreadsheets.

• Experience

  Significant experience of working in a senior nursing role

• Experience

  Evidence of managerial responsibilities & operational healthcare experience in an acute setting

• Experience

  Ability to analyse complex problems and workable solutions to address them

• Experience

  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.

• Experience

  Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands

• Experience

  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

• Experience

  Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines & within resources.

• Experience

  Significant experience in the supervision of staff and students including HR issues

• Experience

  Significant experience of audit in evaluating and developing services

• Experience

  Manager on call

• Experience

  Experience of managing other professional groups

• Experience

  Experience of SLAs and contractual working

• Experience

  Experience within specialism of the division

• Experience

  Change and quality improvement management experience

• Experience

  Significant experience of close multi-professional working in an in-patient environment

• Experience

  Significant experience of representing therapies within a trust setting

• Experience

  Significant experience of managing a budget and of managing budget holders.

• Experience

  Experience of teaching undergraduates and post graduate students

• Experience

  Significant experience of working autonomously to lead a professional nursing group.

• Experience

  Significant experience of transformational change and use of quality improvement initiatives to improve practice and service

• Qualifications

  First Level Registered Nurse/Midwife

• Qualifications

  Evidence of Post Graduate education in specialty field

• Qualifications

  Evidence of ongoing, relevant postgraduate education

• Qualifications

  Masters level education MSc in a relevant healthcare subject

• Qualifications

  Management Qualification

• Qualifications

  Teaching/mentoring qualification