Head of Nursing (Outpatients and Cancer Care Services)

Job overview

The Head of Nursing (Outpatients and Cancer Care Services) role is a key position within the Access Division, responsible with a prime focus on the day-to-day delivery of high standards of patient care across Outpatients and Cancer Services.

The post holder supports in the day-to-day delivery of the clinical business of the Service and assumes delegated functions of corporate nursing or development programmes, nursing recruitment and retention, measuring and improving standards of care and the patient experience, in accordance with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, controls and resource constraints.

Post holders will demonstrate a highly visible, authoritative and democratic leadership style, which is underpinned by the values of the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Work with the Divisional management team and service leads to provide professional and clinical leadership to the clinical services.

Manage budgets for pathways and services within the portfolio, including achievement of relevant cost improvement plans, and early identification of cost pressures.

Ensure all staff are fairly and effectively managed so that clinical services have appropriate staffing levels, well managed leave, and up to date mandatory training and appraisals.

Participate in the Trusts senior manager on call (silver) rota.

Ensure all clinical services in the post holder’s portfolio are managed within budget and achieving their key performance indicators.

Ensure that patient care is delivered with care and compassion to a high standard

To ensure a positive patient experience and achievement of clinical quality standards as measured through the collection and use of relevant clinical indicators and High Impact Intervention audits.

Maintain a highly visible leadership profile, undertaking quality rounds and being proactive about engaging with service areas where required.

To ensure that the pathways and services achieve contracted activity and access targets.

Develop local systems for gaining patient feedback, responding to adverse outcomes

Manage all complaints and incidents on time and to a high quality

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 documents please view the attachment/s on this page

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.