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Job overview

Acute Practitioner / Lead Nurse Manager:

Directorate: Acute & Emergency Medicine

Band:   7                                 

Salary: £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum

Medway Foundation Trust Emergency Department

• Do you want to be part of an innovative and award-winning team?
• Do you want to develop and deliver staff educate and improve practice. 
• Do you want to have a clear plan of continuing professional development and career opportunities?
• Are you committed to delivering evidence-based care

If you have answered yes:

To meet this challenge we are increasing our workforce, investing in their professional development and introducing new and innovative roles.

Acute & Emergency Medicine provides an exciting and rewarding career; at Medway we offer a support and development package that has received national acknowledgement and won the Nursing Times Workforce 2020, Health Service Journal 2021 and Nursing Times Awards 2021 awards.

Working in Acute & Emergency care can be stressful and challenging; you will need to be resilient and hard working. 

Main duties of the job

Provide strong and visible leadership and Education throughout the Care Group’s clinical areas ensuring that the team understand the strategic direction within the Care Group and the overarching Trust objectives.

Demonstrate effective leadership by promoting and modelling leadership behaviours.

Supporting the Matron, Head of Nursing and Nurse Consultant to take forward and implement the Trust nursing and midwifery vision and strategic plan across the Care Group and to deliver a clinically and financially viable service model maintaining a focus on the delivery of high quality patient care standards.

Working in partnership with the Care Group Leads, actively support and empower the nursing workforce to develop and utilise clinical leadership skills, ensuring they are invested in appropriate levels of authority to undertake their role effectively in an accountable manner.

Maintain an insight into the patient’s journey by utilising regular clinical experience.

As a key member of the senior team, contribute to and promote a culture that values all staff recognising and acknowledging achievement/innovation and success whilst positively addressing poor performance, succession planning and talent management.

Lead the use of and monitor compliance against all nursing metrics such as Quality Care Rounds and the implementation of changes, through a culture of continuous improvement.

Working for our organisation

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved.  Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

Would you like to work flexibly?   In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.  

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.