Deputy Associate Director of NursingNHS

Job summary

Deputy Associate Director of Nursing - Emergency and Integrated Medicine Division

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and ambitious senior nurse leader to join the Emergency and Integrated Medicine Division at Whittington Health.This is one of two Deputy Associate Director of Nursing posts within the division, providing senior nursing and operational leadership across a defined portfolio. This post will have specific responsibility for the Emergency Department, Ambulatory Care Services and Acute Assessment Unit (AAU), while working collaboratively across the wider division. Therefore experience in these settings is essential. As a key member of the divisional senior leadership team, you will work closely with the Associate Director of Nursing, Clinical Director, Director of Operations and AHP Lead. You will have significant responsibility and accountability for the delivery of:

High-quality, safe and effective patient care

Patient experience and clinical outcomes

Operational performance, patient flow and service delivery

Workforce performance, productivity and effective deployment of resources

Financial performance and delivery within agreed budgets

Quality improvement, risk management and clinical governance

Main duties of the job

Clinical and Professional Leadership

Ensure that, as a group the nursing services successfully contribute to the Trust's clinical strategy.Ensure that the services have appropriate mission statements and objectives in line with this and that the ICARE values are incorporated into the work of all teams and individuals. To provide guidance, support and professional leadership to all nursing staff in their clinical areas with regards to service provision. To act as a positive role model though the provision of effective professional leadership for relevant clinical areas, maintaining high visibility through undertaking activities such as clinical practice or observations of care.To be highly visible, approachable and to be available to respond to patients, relatives, carers and staff, maintaining open and honest communication channels.To monitor clinical standards, evaluate patient care, ensuring practice is evidence based and that clinical guidelines and care pathways are developed and implemented.

Job description

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To work to support the development and delivery of the Governance agenda including clinical and non-clinical aspects of care and service delivery.

To deliver the outcomes necessary for Peer Review to ensure the quality and safety of care as well as optimising the patient experience throughout the patient journey.

To work closely with the Patient Experience Team to implement systems to monitor clinical standards ensuring high standards of care, that are evidence based and integral to service delivery , involving patients and others in developing and enhancing services.

To ensure systems are in place in the clinical areas to enable local and national initiatives to be implemented, monitored and evaluated including the Nursing High Impact Actions and NICE Guidance.

To ensure there are mechanisms in place to ensure National performance measures are achieved in their clinical areas (such as infection control targets and peer review measures)

To carry out regular reviews of incidents, complaints and risk assessments as well as other clinical audits ensuring that appropriate follow-up is taken to address and reduce risk and that learning is disseminated across the nursing team and the Division

To identify and deal effectively with poor practice and declining standards of care

To meet with patients and their families as required resolving their concerns.

About us

We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and are dedicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients.Our missionHelping local people live longer, healthier lives.Our visionProvide safe, personal, co-ordinated care for the community we serve.Our goalsWe have developed six key strategic goals to make sure we continue to support people to live longer, healthier lives.

To secure the best possible health and wellbeing for all our community

To integrate and coordinate care in person-centred teams

To deliver consistent, high quality, safe services

To support our patients and users in being active partners in their care

To be recognised as a leader in the fields of medical and multi-professional education, and population-based clinical research

To innovate and continuously improve the quality of our services to deliver the best outcomes for our local population