About this role
Job summary
We are looking for an inspirational**Divisional Director of Nursing/Midwifery to provide professional leadership across the Division and other allocated areas of responsibility. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious senior leader to make a significant impact and influence the future direction of services.
As a key member of the Divisional Leadership, working in close partnership with the Divisional Clinical Director and Divisional General Manager, you will help shape and deliver the strategic vision for the Division. You will play a central role in translating that vision into action, providing strong leadership and ensuring the successful delivery of operational priorities and sustainable service improvements.
With a strong track record of transformation and managing complex change, you will champion the development, implementation and evaluation of innovative models of care that are responsive to the evolving needs of patients, service users and the wider healthcare system.
Working collaboratively with divisional and corporate colleagues, you will drive the delivery of strategic and operational objectives, ensuring that improvements in patient outcomes, safety and experience remain at the heart of everything we do. You will also lead the development of robust nursing and midwifery workforce and professional development plans, ensuring we have the skills, leadership capability and workforce capacity needed to meet both current and future service demands.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
We know happy colleagues deliver better care. All our teams work in a supportive environment, which nurtures your wellbeing and provides opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We have an open, inclusive and diverse culture and we would like you to be part of the team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrates current knowledge of professional and national nursing/ midwifery priorities and agenda
- Good understanding of NHS policy and reforms around health and social care
- Demonstrates current knowledge of NHS economic environment commercial challenges and opportunities faced by an NHS Foundation Trust
- Is able to demonstrate awareness and understanding of contemporary professional and educational nursing issues and NHS Policy issues
- A broad understanding of the network of healthcare provision
Desirable
- General Management Experience within an acute provider
- Able to articulate the new NHS system and strategic direction
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse or Midwife (First Level)
- Evidence of study at Degree/Master's level or equivalent
- Management qualification
- Teaching Qualification
Desirable
- Coaching qualification
- Master's degree or postgraduate diploma
Training
Essential
- Evidence of Continuous professional and personal development
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Broad clinical experience in an acute provider setting
- Demonstrates leadership in quality improvement and patient safety across a number of acute care areas
- Demonstrates effective Nursing/ Midwifery Management/Leadership at senior level
- Ability to influence colleagues at a range of levels internally and externally
- Demonstrates experience of negotiating and presenting cohesive solutions to complex issues
- Effective performance and resource management skills
- Effectively implementing and leading change in a complex organisation
- Proven track record as a leader, and professional role model
- Clinical Governance, complaints handling and clinical risk management experience
Desirable
- Experience in working within an NHS Foundation Trust
- A clear commitment to career progression
- Experience of talent management
- Publications
- Conference presentations
- Cross-organisational working
- Effectively implementing and managing large scale change in a complex organisation
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- To work flexibly to the requirements of the post
- Participation in on-call
- Full Driving Licence
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). (https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals)
Employer details
Employer name
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
KINGS MILL HOSPITAL
MANSFIELD ROAD
SUTTON IN ASHFIELD
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab) (https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/)