Job summary
- Main area
- Armstrong Way
- Grade
- Band 9
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-CORP-917
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Armstrong Way
- Town
- Southall
- Salary
- £111,120 - £127,006 per annum inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/02/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/02/2025
Employer heading
Deputy Chief Nurse
Band 9
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
We are excited to invite applications for the role of Deputy Chief Nurse at West London NHS Trust, we are seeking a dynamic and high-achieving leader who will champion improvement through compassion. Partnering closely with the Chief Nurse, you will offer strategic, values-based leadership, ensuring the delivery of exceptional standards in patient safety, care, and experience, and serving as an inspiring role model for our nursing workforce. Your leadership will empower our staff to deliver high-quality patient care, fostering an inclusive culture aligned with our Trust values.
Main duties of the job
We seek someone with demonstrable skills in director level nursing leadership and governance, who is deeply passionate about our people, our patients, their families and the public service we provide. Central to your role will be leading with kindness, dignity, respect, and care for colleagues, patients, and their families.
In this visible and purposeful leadership role, your focus will be on the nursing and quality agenda. You will also lead pre- and post-registration nurse education and training. Working largely independently, you will credibly influence at the highest levels across the organisation and the wider Integrated Care System.
If you are committed to quality, safety, and efficiency, and ready to help us achieve our vision and values, we warmly welcome your application.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (RMN, RGN, RNLD)
- Masters Degree in a relevant subject or equivalent experience.
- Undertaken leadership development training.
- Teaching qualification
Desirable criteria
- Second Nursing Qualification
- Doctorate
- Recognised management training
- Trained in QI
- Non-medical prescriber
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience at a senior management /director level, including managing change and introducing new ways of working for nurses and practitioners.
- Significant experience of operationally managing staff teams.
- Demonstration of sound and effective leadership skills.
- Experience of Managing regulatory inspections.
- Experience of managing complex projects including a number of stakeholders across multiple sites.
- Experience of undertaking work requiring intense concentration in unpredictable circumstances with frequent interruptions.
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
- Experience of holding senior clinicians to account for standards of care
- Experience of working with senior Higher Education Institution colleagues
- Experience of writing financial training bids to health education commissioners.
- Experience of providing compassionate care for complex populations and those vulnerable to exclusion.
- Experience of, or awareness of specific factors relating to working in a culturally diverse inner city area.
- Experience of preparing and presenting reports at Executive level.
- Detailed understanding of the recovery approach with experience of developing recovery oriented practices.
- Experience of teaching programmes of learning and education to nurses.
- Experience of developing systems and processes to improve quality
- Knowledge and experience of quality governance.
- Experience of working across professional boundaries, able to enthuse and inspire others using advanced communication and presentation skills.
- Experience of commissioning education and training programmes. Knowledge of healthcare education landscape.
- Experience of managing disciplinary processes.
- Experience of performance management.
- Experience of autonomous practice.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in community services
- Experience of managing projects across multidisciplinary teams
- Experience of reporting to the Board
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- National performance targets for health providers
- Understanding of governance framework and its application in practice.
- Research, audit and quality improvement methodologies and their application.
- Theory and concepts associated with clinical practice and its application.
- Demonstrable understanding of issues relating to provision of health care within a range of settings and knowledge of policy developments relating to this.
- System and learning theory.
- Principles of managing change.
- Current policy and care delivery context and the implications for nursing.
- Contemporary developments in nursing.
- Good understanding of the regulatory frameworks for the NHS trusts including the roles of the Care Quality Commission, Integrated Care Board / Systems.
- Current professional developments in nursing and nurse education/development.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to facilitate multidisciplinary debriefing, critical analysis meetings.
- Able to take the lead in volatile situations.
- Able to manage time, so that deadlines are met.
- Able to provide expert nursing advice.
- Able to manage change constructively.
- Able to negotiate constructively with all professions at all levels.
- Able to analyse and solve problems in a professional nursing context.
- Able to communicate complex and sensitive issues to a range of audiences.
- Able to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team.
- Able to communicate complex and sensitive issues to a range of audiences.
- Ability to develop strategies, implement and imbed quality governance in an organisation.
Desirable criteria
- Computer skills.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Gillian Kelly
- Job title
- Chief Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
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