Job overview

The main purpose of this role will be:

To provide strong, effective leadership coupled with a solid sense of commitment to delivering excellent nursing care and patient experience on the Medical Same Day Emergency Care Unit, and to ensure the improvement and sustainability of the quality-of-care indicators for caring for the patients.

You will be expected to work with the matron to ensure the operational efficiency of the unit, working collaboratively with all departments across the Trust.

You will be expected to promote consistent safe, effective, well led and responsive quality care and working practices in the unit and ensure that staff will receive the appropriate leadership, support, appraisal and continual professional development.

This role will require flexibility of hours and working patterns.

You will be expected to work within the Acute care Leadership Team and multidisciplinary team to develop and evolve our pathways for acute admission avoidance and admissions. Through demonstration of high levels of clinical expertise and practice, work collaboratively with members of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), divisional care unit and others to review and plan services which are responsive, cost effective and evidence based

 Provide strong, professional leadership working in partnership to enhance professional standards of care across the service linking in with primary, secondary and tertiary care as appropriate

Main duties of the job

1.            Patient Care

2.            Multidisciplinary Team Working

3.            Communication/Information

 4.            Clinical/ Operational Management

 5.            Human Resource Management and Development

 6.            Budget Management

 7.            Unit Environment

8.            Clinical Governance

 9.            Research\Education

 10.          Professional Development/ Personal Performance

Working for our organisation

Our Vision: Exceptional patient care provided by exceptional people

Our Mission: To bring our people communities & partners together- providing patient care we can all be proud of.

As colleagues, we will always be guided by our Proud to CARE values:

·         Compassion: Treating everyone with kindness – welcoming diversity and inclusion, considering     individual needs; and challenging inappropriate behaviours outside of our values.

·         Ambition: Aspiring to be the best – reaching high standards, providing exceptional care and services; and achieving measurable improvements in people’s health and wellbeing.

·         Respect: Valuing and appreciating everyone – listening, learning, and acting on their     experiences, being open and honest; and recognising that working with others brings benefits.

·         Encouragement: Opportunities for all – supporting education and development, helping people      to bring their improvement ideas to life and speak-up; and getting everyone involved in our future.

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

 UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.  Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.  Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be  eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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