Job overview

The post holder will be the deputy professional lead nurse for Nurses in the Directorate, providing professional leadership and accountability with an overview of quality and governance within the Directorate.

They will work as part of the triumvirate and corporate nursing team to ensure the Directorate has the correct nursing establishment and workforce in place to deliver safe high quality care to patients and families.  This will involve providing strategic support and workforce planning to support demand and capacity and the implementation of health and well-being measures to support our colleagues.

Working alongside the Directorate Associate Director of Nursing,  Clinical Director and Operational Director the post holder will need to be easily identifiable, provide strong, inspiring, visible clinical leadership and have the appropriate level of authority to give support, advice and assistance required at all levels of nursing to provide a clinically excellent service to  children, young people and their families and carers.

Main duties of the job

An essential emphasis of the role is on Patient Safety, Patient Experience, User Engagement, identifying, monitoring, and improving Clinical Outcomes.  They must identify and resolve clinical issues quickly and effectively to minimize any negative impact on the quality of patient care and insure there are robust risk management and governance systems in place to ensure safe, efficient, effective and timely management of the clinical and quality agenda.

The post holder will be responsible for the ongoing professional accountability and development of registered nurses working in the Directorate. The post holder will oversee the clinical training programs to support pre and post registration students in the directorate and will ensure that all nurses have access to training and education as demanded by their role.

Working for our organisation

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust’s (HDFT) reputation for quality and innovation has enabled us to become the largest provider of Children’s Public Health Services (often known as 0–19 or 0-25 Services)
in England – we support over 750,000 Children and
Young People through our eleven services stretching
from Berwick upon Tweed in the North, to Wakefield
in the South, and across to Cumbria and the whole North Yorkshire,
from Settle in the West to Scarborough in the East. Our Children and Young Peoples Public Health Directorate workforce exceeds 1500 employees working across our 0-19 services.

We combine strong system leadership, clinically excellent, evidence-based and prevention-focused care, with proactive, integrated One Team partnership working. Our models are universal in reach and
personalised in response.
We engage with Children, Young People and Families, from pre-birth to age 19(25), offering access to universally available care pathways. Those at higher risk and with greater need will receive tailored resources through an innovative skill mix team, via Targeted and Specialist Level pathways, responsive to their evolving unique needs: driving positive outcomes, reducing health inequalities and building early, sustainable resilience.