Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing

Job overview

We are looking for a dynamic, experienced and compassionate senior nurse to join our triumvirate team. The Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing role works collaboratively with the general manager and clinical director providing leadership, strategic direction, financial control and senior nursing support to the directorate.

The directorate has 640 staff (of which 430 are nurses and allied health professionals) and a budget of £53 million. Services within the directorate portfolio include acute medicine on the Charing Cross hospital site and trust wide services of respiratory, allergy, dermatology, and medicine for the elderly including frailty.

The role also supports the divisional nursing portfolio within medicine and integrated care and deputises for the divisional director of nursing.   Qualities and experience which will ensure you are a good fit within directorate and divisional teams include credibility and integrity - having strong operational oversight and the ability to respond to what is happening in the moment.  Creative, adaptable and forward thinking and having the skills to work collaboratively to deliver effective change whilst maintaining safety and operational delivery, are crucial for the role. Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills demonstrated across a broad service portfolio.

You will champion a patient-centred approach, ensuring services are well positioned to place patient choice, safety and staff wellbeing at the fore front of developments.

Main duties of the job

• Leading delegated work streams and working in partnership with the Divisional nursing teams to ensure compliance with the Trust’s strategic direction and the Nursing & Midwifery strategy and direction. This includes enabling audit activities as well as ensuring robust quality monitoring systems to provide assurance of effective and safe care delivery.
• To lead on and influence nursing staff in their commitment to advancing nursing/clinical practice through the use of research and implementing evidence based practice.
• To foster a culture where nurses and midwives are engaged with the effective performance and quality of non-clinical and environmental services that impact on patient care.
• Provide expert advice to nursing staff and other professionals, ensuring compliance with NMC regulation and professional code of conduct.
• To establish proactively a local framework for practice that is both professionally enabling and patient focused.  This should be translated where possible across professional boundaries to optimise health outcomes.
• Work with the multidisciplinary team to review clinical practice and develop new clinical initiative.
• To work at least one day or night shift per month providing direct care within a clinical area.

Detailed job description and main 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 overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.