Assistant Chief Nurse – Safeguarding, Quality & Safety

Assistant Chief Nurse – Safeguarding, Quality & Safety

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Main area Chief Nurse Grade NHS AfC: Band 8c Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 309-UCLH- -A

Site University College London Hospitals Town London Salary £88,250 - £100,355 Per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 21/09/ :59

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An exciting leadership opportunity has arisen to join the Chief Nurse team and lead a portfolio across quality, safety and safeguarding adults at UCLH. This role is pivotal to delivering against our strategic priorities and ensuring UCLH continues to deliver the highest standards of quality, safe care. You will work closely with the Chief Nurse, Deputy Chief Nurse and Directors of Nursing to lead across a number of nursing priorities aligned to the refreshed Trust strategy.

You will provide forward-thinking clinical and professional leadership to contribute to the strategic direction of the safeguarding adults and quality & safety agenda, actively promoting a learning culture.
You will have collaborative leadership skills, a passion for high-quality patient care and a drive to enhance patient outcomes and improve staff experience.
This is an excellent opportunity for professional development, and we are seeking an individual with a passion for person-centered & safe care, a focus on quality improvement and demonstrable leadership and collaboration skills.

Main duties of the job

Sitting within corporate nursing, you will be an active member of the Nursing & Midwifery Leadership Team (NMLT) and line manage three direct reports: PERRT Lead Nurse, Safeguarding & MCA Lead Nurse and Exemplar Lead. You will have responsibility for quality & safety priorities such as safeguarding adults, deteriorating patients, outreach, risk management and the refreshed Exemplar programme.

As the Chief Nurse Division risk lead, you will oversee the Chief Nurse risk register and represent the Deputy Chief Nurse at Trust wide meetings relating to risk, quality & safety. You will take a leadership role in various committees and meetings relating to quality & safety and will deputise for the Deputy Chief Nurse as required.

You will work closely with a team of senior leaders including directors of nursing, deputy directors of nursing and assistant chief nurses to ensure;

• Delivery of high and consistently safe standards of nursing care
• Promotion of a patient focused multidisciplinary approach to care
• Measurable outcomes to assure the quality and safety of nursing practice
• Delivery against the Trust strategy and quality account in relation to nursing & midwifery.

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff - To find out more, visit: Flexible working .

To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?

Person specification

Knowledge & Qualifications

• Higher professional or management degree (Masters level or higher) or equivalent
• Evidence of on-going personal and professional development
• Portfolio of career long learning

Experience & knowledge

• Proven nursing/midwifery leadership and management experience
• Experience of leading, implementing and monitoring objectives and priorities
• Experience of reviewing, contributing to and managing contracts, maintaining legal, professional and governance standards
• Demonstrable understanding of relevant national strategy/policy and how this relates to the portfolio
• Demonstrable record of applying professional judgement for the purpose of decision making to complex situations
• Experience of successfully leading and developing teams
• Experience of leading and delivering on complex projects

Communication

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to adjust communication style to suit the audience.
• Ability to collaborate to create the conditions for effective communication with colleagues.
• Excellent influencing and negotiating skills
• Excellent report writing and formal presentation skills

Personal And People Development

• Demonstrate emotional intelligence, self-awareness, self-management (including self-control, transparency and optimism)
• Relationship management skills (ability to influence, develop others and act as a change catalyst)
• Skilled in reflection with a strong commitment to professional development – positive professional role model
• Organisational and time management skills - completer finisher
• Able to demonstrate initiative and work autonomously – self-starter
• Solution and achievement orientated
• Flexible and adaptable to change

Health, Safety And Security

• Monitors and maintains health, well-being, safety and security of self and others
• Promotes, monitors and maintains best practice in health, safety and security

Service Improvement

• Thorough understanding of NHS improvement agenda
• Successful achievement of projects, working closely with multi-professional teams

Equality and Diversity

• Understands the implications of Equal Opportunities in practice and can demonstrate implementation

Information processing

• Able to utilise ICT to full potential
• Sound budgetary and business management experience and skills
• Managing organisational change
• Managing a range of staff groups

At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.

At UCLH we take equality of opportunity seriously and are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer, with a culture that creates a real sense of belonging and trust. It is our fundamental aim, to recruit, retain and promote a diverse mix of people who are representative of our local communities. Applications are encouraged from candidates of all backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives to support our world class research, innovation and creativity.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff and has a dedicated policy which allows staff to apply for flexible working right from the beginning of employment. For more information please go to:

We offer our permanent staff an interest free season ticket loan for travel, all our staff have access to free independent and confidential support, large retail discounts, a staff discount platform, cycle to work scheme and on-site accommodation to name a few.

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