Job overview

Are you a natural leader passion for Critical Care, who can inspire others while striving for the best care possible? If so, we would love to hear from you.

Due to the expansion of our Critical Care services and bed capacity, we are looking for an exceptional candidate to join our senior nursing team for the Critical Care services at BHRUT.  This is an opportunity to help shape the direction of one of the largest ITU facilities in North East London.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a large multiple-site Critical Care Unit providing care across the Queen's Hospital and King George Sites, including a specialist Neuro Intensive Care Unit with emergency and elective surgical patient pathways and with line management for the Critical Care Outreach Service.

Under the guidance of the head of nursing for critical care, the successful candidate will work closely with the senior team of critical care matrons, providing operational support as well as assisting in the strategic direction of an essential service.

The role is a mixture of clinical responsibilities with managerial responsibility, with a strong focus on delivering first-class quality and safety, of effective escalation of some of our most dependent and vulnerable patients.

This role will focus on both the day-to-day delivery of services as well as the strategic delivery of a sustainable training programme and staff for the expansion of the Trust sites.

Main duties of the job

·       To take part in the visible leadership programme.

·       Actively participate in Specialty meetings and other Trust meetings to ensure that professional issues are fully represented and considered.

·       Work in partnership with the Clinical Lead and Specialty Manager to develop and implement a business plan and clinical strategy for the specialty.

·       Provide professional nursing leadership across the Department ensuring appropriate structures are in place to support and inspire nurses at all levels encouraging innovation, excellence and succession planning.

·        To manage the complaints relating to nursing care within specialty.

·       In partnership with the Clinical Lead and Specialty Manager establish a system to monitor, develop and review the quality of patient care within the service through clinical audit and benchmarking.

·       To lead, manage, motivate and develop staff to maintain the highest level of staff morale and to create a climate within the units characterised by high standards of transparency and openness.

·   Communicate the Trust’s, Division’s and Directorate’s objectives, future plan and current progress against plans to staff across the units.

·       To enable extensive exposure to the different specialities, all Matron and Deputy Matron positions will rotate every year, so this is a great opportunity to develop ITU management skills in general, Neuro and elective units. 

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, was named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal in 2024.
 
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 
 
Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch. 
 
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year. 
 
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
 
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.