Deputy Director of Nursing & Quality
- Employer
- Finegreen
- Location
- West Midlands
- Salary
- £71.70 per hour
- Closing date
- 12 Jul 2022
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- Sector
- Acute Trust
- Job Type
- Temporary
- Category
- Governance & Risk Management, Nursing
Job Details
The post holder will provide visible leadership, vision, advice, supervision and support to clinical professionals throughout the organisation, ensuring that consistent high quality clinical standards are integrated and embedded into all patient services.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Provide an effective professional leadership for nursing, midwifery and health visiting across the organisation at all levels, take the lead in the absence of the Director of Nursing;
- Have a regular presence in clinical areas for observing and assuring standards of clinical practice, communicating with clinical staff and patients to assess and support services;
- Provide direct support in the delivery of the organisation’s patient safety, clinical governance, and risk management objectives;
- Assist in developing the Trust’s Patient Safety and Quality Strategy and Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Strategy;
- Responsible for overseeing its implementation, reporting regularly, and providing annual reports;
- Promote the professional reputation, standards, and relationships throughout the organisation and externally;
- Responsibility for leading and managing the Patient Experience Service to ensure the patient voice is evident in standards setting and the improvement agenda;
- Update and regular report on progress and escalation of risk where appropriate;
- Responsible for identification, assessment and management of risks related to own portfolio;
- Set and monitor high standards of nursing practice across the organisation, producing reports to Committees and Boards as required;
- Identify and deliver changes in service that maximise efficiency and deliver high quality services;
- Ensure governance processes are in place to monitor and provide assurance to the Director of Nursing and Board colleagues regarding patient, family, and carer experience, providing formal reports to the Board.
- NMC Registration Nurse/NMC Registration Midwife;
- Evidence of further specialist leadership and management training plus significant experience of working at a strategic level;
- Maximum experience in a senior nurse management role including substantial recent experience in an acute setting;
- Experience of successfully leading a clinical team evidenced by outcomes;
- Extensive expertise within Quality;
- Leadership skills and ability to motivate a team;
- Strong interpersonal skills.
Company
Put simply, we help our clients to recruit the best possible people to lead, manage and direct their organisations. Since launching in 2005 we have become an award winning, market-leading consultancy focusing on both public and private sector Healthcare recruitment.
Leadership skills have rarely been at such a premium - as organisations across both public and private sectors attempt to improve services and standards at a time of widespread change and unprecedented financial constraints.
Like other leading executive recruiters, Finegreen has developed a pool of talent built up over many years, along with established networks, to ensure that right-match candidates get to hear about relevant positions. Where Finegreen differs from many others, is in its willingness to spend quality time with clients - to gain an in-depth knowledge of roles being filled and their importance to an organisation.
Over the last 17 years in the Healthcare market, Finegreen has developed into a Virgin Fast Track top 100 company - and was voted Recruiter of the Year at the Health Investor Awards, Top small to medium sized business at the Best Business Awards, and featured in Recruiter’s Top 10 Public Sector Recruitment providers.
- Website
- http://www.finegreen.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 0345 130 4006
- Location
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Finegreen
Manchester
Lancashire
M12 6JH
United Kingdom
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