Assistant Director of NursingNHS

Job summary

Assistant Director of Nursing Band 8B | Two exciting senior nursing leadership opportunities

We are delighted to be recruiting to three Assistant Director of Nursing posts at Aintree University Hospital, providing an exciting opportunity to join our senior nursing leadership team and make a significant contribution to the quality, experience and future development of care across the Aintree site.

These are influential senior leadership roles for individuals who are passionate about excellent patient care, developing people and transforming services.

Emergency Care An exciting opportunity for a senior nursing leader who can thrive in a complex and fast-paced environment, bringing visible leadership, strong professional standards and a relentless focus on quality, safety, patient experience and improvement.

Discharge and Flow An opportunity to provide senior nursing leadership across discharge and patient flow, with a clear focus on improving the patient journey, collaborative working and developing safe, effective and patient-centred ways of working.

When completing your application, please clearly state which of the three posts you are applying for.

Main duties of the job

You will provide visible, credible and compassionate professional leadership, working collaboratively with clinical, operational and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver high-quality, safe and effective care.

You will be expected to operate confidently at a senior level, providing solutions to complex challenges and contributing to the strategic direction, performance, quality and transformation of services.

You will:

• Provide strong professional and clinical nursing leadership, acting as a role model for high standards of care and professional practice.
• Put quality, safety and patient experience at the centre of decision-making.
• Develop, coach and empower nursing leaders and teams, building leadership capability and supporting succession planning.
• Lead and influence service improvement, innovation and transformation.
• Strengthen clinical governance, risk management, infection prevention and control, learning from incidents and complaints, and continuous improvement.
• Lead workforce planning and safe staffing, ensuring nursing resources are aligned to patient need.
• Provide strong oversight of nursing resources and budgets, including bank and agency controls, and contribute to financial improvement and value for money.
• Use data, intelligence and professional judgement to understand performance, identify risks and drive improvement.
• Build credible relationships across services, professions and organisational boundaries to improve the patient journey.

Job description

For a full list of responsibilities, please see the job description and person specification attached.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year.The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.