Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an exceptional nurse leader to join the Womens Division, Gynaecology directorate with a specific focus on patient quality, safety and standards of care to deliver a good patient experience.

The Gynaecology Directorate provides extensive services across 19 sub-specialties including:  

• Operating theatres for elective and emergency gynaecology and obstetrics

• Dedicated abortion care service for complex termination of pregnancy

• Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injuries (OASIS) service

• Hysteroscopy and colposcopy suite 

• Urogynaecology 

• Outpatient cystoscopy service. 

• General gynaecology outpatients including the longest established Menopause clinic in the UK. 

• Specialist pain/endometriosis clinics. 

• Oncology services at unit level to include management of pre-invasive disease of the genital tract through rapid referral two-week clinic

• A hyperemesis daycentre and outpatient management of miscarriage service is also provided in the early pregnancy assessment unit (EPAU) which is available seven days a week. 

• Nurse led Pre-Assessment clinics.

You will be a key member of the Gynaecological Directorate working alongside the Clinical Service Lead and Service manager as part of a triumvirate team.  

If you are a confident, well organised, strong, and a visible leader with high standards, excellent clinical skills and knowledge with extensive experience this is the ideal opportunity for you.

Main duties of the job

Working under the direction of the Associate Director of Nursing and Midwifery/Head of Midwifery  the post holder will lead on the following key aspects:

Professional and operational leadership

Clinical Governance and quality

Nursing/AHP workforce planning

Service Development

Managing nursing/AHP performance

You will embody our values, have a passion for operational delivery, a passion for patient care and have excellent communication skills.  A proven track record of innovation and success in senior operational and clinical management roles is essential, including high levels of engagement with staff and external partners.

You will be accountable for the professional development of nursing staff.  You will provide professional leadership that will enable, influence, negotiate and engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders to improve patient care and nurse leadership.

As a very senior nurse, you will work with the Trust senior leadership team to ensure that professional standards are maintained and that the organisation fulfils in total, its mandatory responsibilities concerning safety, risk and governance.

We are looking for someone who has a proven track record and substantial experience in the care of patients and able to demonstrate dynamic, inspirational and compassionate leadership skills to help us meet the local and national challenges. 

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.