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Job summary

Main area
Nursing
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
214-CEN-6982712
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King's Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton In Ashfield
Salary
£62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/03/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Deputy Director of Nursing, Quality & Governance

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

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Job overview

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a Deputy Director of Nursing, Quality & Governance. We are looking for a self-motivated leader, with a passion for improving service user experience, staff engagement and a passion for governance.

Working with the Director of Nursing Quality & Governance, you will deliver a robust and evolving quality assurance framework and governance structure to ensure accountability and transparency, where quality assurance is integrated alongside quality improvements.

This role is pivotal in providing support to deliver safety improvement projects from patient safety priorities and emerging patient safety themes in line with the implementation of the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF). You will have proven change management, quality improvement, and project management experience as well as an understanding and appreciation of the various clinical patient safety issues to drive the safety improvement agenda.

Apply now to join our team and make a difference in healthcare!

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Working for our organisation

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of key performance indicators and compliance against quality/risk/governance agendas
  • Knowledge of the NHS and the improvement agenda, particularly in relation to service delivery.
  • Knowledge of CQC Fundamental Standards and associated compliance requirements
  • Knowledge of improvement methodology
Desirable criteria
  • Understanding of programme management methodologies

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Relevant professional (Clinical) qualification
  • Educated to Master’s degree or PG Qualifications or equivalent experience
  • Programme management qualification

Further Training

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of continuing personal and professional development

Experience & Personal Skills

Essential criteria
  • Significant senior level experience of healthcare and managing clinical governance and clinical effectiveness within large/ complex NHS organisation (must include experience in an acute care setting)
  • Strategic planning and project management
  • Experience in service improvement techniques /QI methodologies
  • Proven performance management of services and delivery of targets within agreed timescales
  • Experience of working collaboratively and in partnerships with other organisations
  • Experience of successfully leading and managing a diverse team
  • Experience of delivering change in service delivery /culture shift
  • Ability to plan and lead multiple complex projects and / or project work streams at once, ensuring work is delivered to time and to budget
  • Ability to exercise sound judgement, maintain discretion and use initiative
  • High level of analytical capability, in order to reach conclusions and decisions based on available data and evidence, provided by the data analytics team or through primary research
  • Excellent organisational skills and ability to plan and manage initiatives to deadlines, focusing on the delivery of outcomes
  • A confident communicator with strong drafting and presenting skills, able to communicate confidently in front of large audiences of senior executives
  • Knowledge of the structure, functions, culture and values of the NHS and its inter-relationship with other agencies
  • Numerate, IT literate, analytical and able to use business intelligence effectively
  • Demonstrable experience of effectively managing budgets
  • Able to think and plan strategically
  • Able to undertake analysis of performance data, assess projects, identifying areas for collaborative working and/or improvement
  • Well-developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams and help them understand the statutory requirements for governance and assurance
  • Demonstrates skills in IT systems and use of word, excel and PowerPoint
  • Partnership & collaborative working with internal and external stakeholders through well-developed interpersonal skills
  • Ability to produce accurate and timely reports appropriate to the audience
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrable experience of leading and effectively managing change in large complex environments.

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Candice Smith
Job title
Director of Nursing, Quality & Safety
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01623 622515
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