Job summary
- Main area
- Oncology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 393-NMUH-2049
- Employer
- North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £80,025 - £91,336 Per Annum Inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Director of Nursing for Cancer, Palliative Care &End of Life
NHS AfC: Band 8c
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
Are you a dynamic, innovative, compassionate and committed Senior Cancer Nurse who would like to play a crucial role to lead in progressing Cancer, Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) and End of Life services throughout the North Middlesex University Hospital Trust?
This position is well suited to an individual with a broad experience in Cancer from diagnosis through to End of Life. Specialist Palliative Care and End of Life Care will not however be exclusive to Cancer. The postholder will provide strong, visible professional leadership within the organization, building robust and effective relationships with external partners and key stakeholders.
Based within the Women’s, Children, Clinical Support and Cancer Division, you will work closely and collaboratively with Cancer, Specialist Palliative Care and End of Life leads to ensure strategies are in place to deliver measurable and sustainable improvement in quality and safety, in line with local, regional and National Best practice standards and drivers, and overall Trust objectives and values.
This exciting position offers the opportunity to develop and facilitate initiatives to build and develop innovative services to support patients and carers throughout their experience. Embracing change and continuously challenging to create meaningful improvement. This vital post spans across the Trust as a key change agent and expert resource to all divisions.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide strong, visible professional leadership within the organisation, building robust and effective relationships with external partners and key stakeholders.
They will be accountable for ensuring the maintenance and progression of clinical excellence in cancer, that these services are effectively coordinated, equitable, and of high quality.
The ADoN will work collaboratively with the Cancer, SPC teams and EoLC leads to ensure strategies are in place to deliver measurable and sustainable improvement in quality and safety, in line with local, regional and National best practice standards and drivers, and overall Trust objectives and values. They will also take the lead, along with the Clinical Director, for clinical governance within cancer services and Palliative Care & End of Life oversight.
After several years of ever closer working, North Mid and Royal Free London are planning to come together as one organisation to enable them to go further and faster in improving services for patients and the health of the local community than they can achieve separately. The merger of North Mid into the RFL group is currently expected to take place on 1 January 2025, subject to NHS England and Secretary of State approval.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Provide effective professional leadership to senior cancer AHPs and support teams, motivating teams across the Trust in the development of roles and services for patients with cancer, and other potentially life limiting conditions.
· Advise and liaise across Divisions regarding the developments and implementation of Trust priorities for cancer, in accordance with the agreed locality and National standards
· Advise and liaise across divisions regarding developments and implementation of local and national priorities for palliative care and end of life.
· Communicate highly complex, sensitive and occasionally contentious issues, with patients/carers and staff. Effectively manage and support those affected when discussing emotive and difficult issues, at personal levels, and for staff, also professional levels
· Work alongside and support the Lead Cancer Nurses in NCL with new initiatives including personalized, patient experience, and CNS development.
· Work with patients and user groups in the locality, encouraging patients to be actively involved in developing services
· Develop and sustain local networks and partnerships both within and outside the organisation, to ensure partnership working, and delivery of Trust and local health objectives.
· Establish strong partnerships with colleagues in primary care, and with the voluntary agencies for Cancer, to improve continuity of care and access to specialist advice at all levels
· Promote NMUH cancer strategies and innovations, by presenting at local and national conferences, producing publications, and supporting teams to do the same
Analytical and Judgmental skills
· Review services and resources needed for cancer developments, in conjunction with the Lead Cancer Manager, Clinical Director and other Divisional managers as appropriate. This will also be required for palliative care and end of life.
· Analyse, interpret and present to wider management teams, activity data and trends, (locally and nationally reported, including SSQD), to inform options for service development, and agree key KPIs with the Trust and Commissioners
· Analyse the data from national surveys for cancer (CPES) and End of Life (NACEL), forming an action plan for improvement.
· Take decisive and timely action to address areas of poor performance, under-achievement, and risk
· Be involved in cancer, palliative care and end of life related complaints and queries. Compile evidence and provide accurate and timely responses
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC Nursing Registration
- Master’s degree or equivalent experience
- Post-reg qualification or equivalent experience in cancer
- Evident of on-going personal and professional development, including Advanced Communication Skills training
- Management &/or leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Teaching, mentoring &/or preceptorship qualification
Desirable criteria
- Doctorate in relevant area
Clinical
Essential criteria
- Clinical expertise in the field of cancer including experience at a senior level
- Management experience within a large organization
- Up-to-date current evidence-based practice within the specialty of cancer, including advanced knowledge of current trends and national strategies
- Highly developed understanding ofrelevant legislation, national standards, professional and other guidelines
- Experience of the annual service planning process including budget setting and managing resources
- Experience in working in multi professional teams.
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding A/I of Clinical Governance and Duty of candor
Communication and Relationship Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed leadership skills including strong interpersonal influencing and persuasive skills
- Ability to lead, motivate and influence individuals across organisations, establishing and developing effective relationships with key stakeholders, and proven experience in handling difficult situations & complexitiesin relationships
Personal Qualities and attributes
Essential criteria
- Highly developed environmental and political awareness
- High level of self- awareness and openness to self-improvement with the ability to motivate and inspire others
- Evidence of self-motivation and ability to deal with highly complex issues
Planning and Organisational Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates excellent business and service planning skills for service development
- Well-developed change management skills and ability to demonstrate experience in change management process.
- Ability to manage both operationally and strategically.
- Ability to prioritise and manage own work and that of the team members with varying levels of complexity
- Ability to use own initiative when dealing with issues
- Within own specialist area of competence.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of experience of working as a leader at a senior level across a range of cancer care settings
- Proven professional credibility in their field of expertise, including evidence of published work and conference presentations
- Ability to articulate clear understanding of both the Cancer and National agenda, and possible work streams, to address patient needs
- Expert understanding of the provision and delivery of health care services, national guidance, policies and agendas, key issues, and partnership working
- Proven ability in networking and developing strategic partnerships across organisations, demonstrating an ability to work as part of team as well as autonomously
Desirable criteria
- Quality Improvement Project or equivalent
Patient/Client Care
Essential criteria
- Proven experience of delivering high quality, cost effective, patient centered services, ensuring that service leads and key performance targets are delivered within agreements, within available resources, and to lead corrective action where appropriate.
- Ability to deal with patient and carer complaints sensitively and effectively
- Proven experience of embedding lessons learnt into patient first principles and that these are communicated effectively
- Demonstrable evidence of leading and promoting the development, implementation A/I and evaluation of patient centered and evidence based standards, policies and protocols for cancer and/or palliative care
Policy & Service Development
Essential criteria
- Experience of strategic service development, translating strategic goals into available service and objectives.
- Proven ability to initiate and lead service improvement programmes within nursing/AHP services.
- Experience of working within Network/ Alliance teams, and implementing service frameworks
- Ability to initiate, develop and disseminate cancer policies and protocols across cancer teams and the Trust, ensuring policies are adhered to
Financial Experience
Essential criteria
- Sound financial and budgetary management skills with a strong commercial acumen
- Evidence of developing service and capital bids and highly developed skills in the processes
- Demonstrable experience of leading and managing a group, or groups of staff
- Experience of broad management vision and ability to lead a management team
- Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring staff
- Knowledge and understanding of recruitment and retention of staff and experience of successful deployment and retention
- Experience and understanding of engagement principles and models
Information Resources/ IT
Essential criteria
- Proficient in the use of IT applications Maintaining basic database records
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Colette Datt
- Job title
- Divisional Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
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