Care Group Director For Nursing And Integrated Professions Surgery

To be responsible for the professional leadership and development of Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions within the Surgery Care Group in order to facilitate the delivery of excellent clinical practice and be Clinically responsible for the delivery of all Nursing and wider non medical clinical elements of the service To lead by example, working within the Trust values to empower and develop leadership of all Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions staff in the Care Group enabling each member of staff to perform to the best of their ability providing high quality patient care within available resources To deliver the Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions strategy within the Care Group, this will form an integral part of the Care Group strategy and in year operational work plan To provide professional advice to the Care Group Manager, Care Group Director, clinicians and other senior managers within the Trust To participate as a senior member of the Care Group Management team for supporting business planning, service developments and operational delivery including achievement of performance targets To be accountable for the standard of Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions care and practice within the Care To be a Care Group lead for Brilliant Basics and accreditation programmes To lead in implementing and maintaining the quality governance, patient experience and risk management work plan, including the evidence of CQC essential standards and outcomes To take senior management responsibility for Nursing and integrated Clinical Professions and Care Group quality governance portfolios of work including complaints, risks, safety, quality, effectiveness and patient experience, ensuring high impact, measurable outcomes are delivered in mitigating risk and improving quality, safety and patient experience To facilitate and challenge clinical practice and processes and involve relevant staff in improving patients services and quality. Developing approaches for the utilisation of best practice and research evidence which supports Nursing and Integrated Clinical Professions and improves patients experience To assist the Care Group management team in financial management of the Care Group by managing within budgets, developing and delivering financial improvement programmes, complying with Trust financial rules, recognising and balancing finance versus quality/safety/efficiency To directly line manage the Heads of Nursing or clinical professions /Midwifery and provide professional leadership to the senior nursing community g. CNS, ACP, Matron and lead on performance management of the senior nursing community on their nursing budgets, ensuring controls for workforce management (such as temporary staff, rostering, management of lead and absence) are robust Budget holder for multiple distinct clinical services To lead with the Deputy Chief Nurse an annual review of all nursing skill mix and establishments, using national and professional benchmarks To oversee all investigations relating to complaints and incidents, ensuring timely and accurate completion of robust processes within the relevant timeframes and legislative processes Lead and hear disciplinary, sickness, performance and grievance procedures as appropriate ensuring issues in relation to NMC registration/capability/fitness to practice are properly considered and dealt with Ensure that the approach to complaints is such that each complaint is viewed as a service improvement opportunity Act as a professional resource for the nursing workforce in order to ensure a high quality learning environment is achieved. Ensuring performance reviews are completed, personal development plans are in place and essential training compliance is within Trust agreed levels The postholder will frequently be expected to work clinical shifts utilising their professional knowledge. These shifts will involve frequent moderate effort for short periods of time Responsible for policy implementation for the service To communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to a wide range of clinical, professional and administrative staff effectively where there may be significant barriers to acceptance or understanding On Call duties as required Deputises for the Care Group Manager as required Work within a distributed leadership model within the Care Group triumvirate COMMUNICATIONS & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS To work consistently with other Senior clinical staff across Care Group boundaries, in order to facilitate effective working between services and patient To take a corporate lead on agreed annual objectives, service developments and task and finish transformation projects To line manage and provide leadership support to the senior Nursing and Integrated clinical professional community in the Care Group To ensure that nurses in the Care Group work collaboratively with cross cutting care pathway leads To take part in the Trust wide on call OTHER To lead initiatives to aid retention and recruitment of all nursing staff and support staff To support the Chief Nurse on Nursing and Integrated clinical professions workforce transformation including new To pursue personal lifelong learning by participating in management and clinical supervision, appraisal and professional development activities and registration with the NMC To keep up to date with national and local developments in Nursing and NHS policy and practice Regularly undertakes R&D activity as appropriate