Job summary
- Main area
- Renal
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Until March 25)
- Hours
- Part time - 7.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-UPL-6130626
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 05/06/2024
Employer heading
Nursing Lead for East of England Renal Operational Delivery Network
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Nursing Lead for East of England Renal Operational Delivery Network who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The nursing lead role will support the East of England Renal ODN in the delivery of a challenging service improvement agenda. The post holder will provide clinical nursing leadership to develop and support the implementation of service improvement projects that ensure the network delivers sustainable, high quality patient care in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Building upon the work already undertaken and working closely with the teams in the 6 Trusts within the ODN, the post holder will identify opportunities and lead in the implementation of solutions to improve governance and patient experience using service improvement principles and tools. All service improvement projects will be aligned with and embedded into the work programme for the network.
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, organised individual to join a friendly, innovating team able to make a difference to the care of renal patients across a region.
Renal Networks will focus on priority service areas to bring about improvement in the quality and equity of care and outcomes of their population, present and future.
Main duties of the job
The Nursing Lead for East of England Renal Operational Delivery Network will support the renal workstreams, with the Clinical Lead, ensuring that priorities are agreed and delivered in the process of reducing unwarranted variation and improving renal care for all patients across the region.
To work with and provide support to the ODN units teams, patients, and other stakeholders, enabling a multi-disciplinary and multi-service approach to sharing, influencing, and implementing new processes resulting in whole system change across the East of England renal ODN.
Ensure teams and relevant stakeholders have effective opportunities to contribute to the development of the ODN to discuss, influence and progress joint plans, facilitating collaborative working.
Working for our organisation
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 plus dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding & starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.
Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen & consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
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Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse.
- Educated to degree leve
- Specialist training in relevant area.
- Evidence of continuing professional development. Masters qualification or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate education
- Management/leadership qualification. Project management course (PRINCE2 or equivalent).
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Managing complex information to inform healthcare strategy
- Change management on a small scale.
- Experience working across organisational boundaries in the Health Service.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team work.
- Patient and carer awareness and experience
Desirable criteria
- Change management on a large scale.
- Networking experience.
- Operational experience.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills at different levels and with individuals and groups.
- Strong negotiation, persuasion and influencing skills.
- Ability to deal with conflict and challenge.
- Ability to manage complex issues where high degree of judgement required.
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes. .
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution for others
- Ability to represent the best interests of a network
- Ability to think strategically and support the network with transformational change where this is necessary in order to meet standard.
- Able to use IT packages effectively.
- Organised and methodical.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of working in clinical networks within the NHS
- Change management theory
- Service improvement tools
- Workforce planning tools
- Clinical governance and risk management concepts and techniques.
- Knowledge and experience of personalised care programme including use of PROMs
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paul Thorp
- Job title
- Director of Operations - Unplanned care
- Email address
- [email protected]
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