Job summary
- Main area
- Orthopadics
- Grade
- 8b
- Contract
- Secondment: 6 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 343-6949129-RB-SK
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Epsom Hospital
- Town
- Epsom
- Salary
- £67,950 - £78,028 pa Inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Nursing – South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre
8b
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
The SWLEOC Head of Nursing, with the SWLEOC Director and SWLEOC Medical Director, are expected to deliver the effective integrated clinical, operational and financial performance of SWLEOC.
The Head of Nursing will directly manage the Matrons, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Lead Therapist and be responsible for the delivery of safe and effective nursing care. The Head of Nursing will be accountable for the delivery of an effective nursing service including the delivery of a balanced budget and associated financial performance.
Main duties of the job
- To provide strong professional and managerial leadership to the general and specialist nursing teams and Allied Health Professionals to ensure high quality standards of care, clinical governance and effectiveness, delivering on key national and local performance targets.
To play a key role in service transformation across the directorate and to deliver and lead effective partnership working with our four partners.
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre is an established surgical hub situated on the Epsom Hospital site. The Centre has a core workforce which is completely committed to the delivery of excellent treatment for patients undergoing elective surgery.
The Centre comprises six theatres which run six days a week, operating on approximately 6,000 patients per year, an Outpatients’ service and Pre-Assessment, which is undertaken digitally. Patients recover, post-surgery, in a Post Anaesthetic Care Unit and are then discharged home or taken to the ward for further care, if needed.
SWLEOC is a partnership organisation, made up of four trusts: Epsom and St Helier, St Georges, Kingston and Croydon. Patients come for surgery from across South West London and Surrey, but there are also many patients who come from a wider catchment area.
We have a position of Head of Nursing to fill in a secondment capacity for a period of six months, Band 8b. We are looking to recruit an experienced senior nurse who will be a confident leader to work with all the nursing teams, bringing cohesion and support to all departments so that the highest standards of patient care can be maintained.
The successful candidate will work with the Senior Leadership Team, representing nursing and supporting ongoing transformation work within the Centre. The candidate will also have regular one to one meetings with the Chief Nurse of Epsom and St Helier.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse – RGN Adult Branch
- Post graduate qualification courses or portfolio of evidence demonstrating comprehensive career development
- Post graduate qualification training in management and leadership skills.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Proven track record of developing nursing practice
- Evidence of training in first line management and leadership e.g. disciplinary/ grievance, recruitment and selection, change management.
Values
Essential criteria
- Exhibits behaviours in line with Trust Values:
- Able to demonstrate knowledge and application of Trust RESPECT values.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience working clinically within surgical specialty.
- Substantial post qualification experience as Matron/Unit Manager or equivalent, managing nursing teams.
- Demonstrable previous success in leading and delivering change and performance by engaging clinical teams in strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
- Proven ability to analyse complex problems and to develop and successfully implement practical and workable solutions to address them.
- Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically, and creatively, and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands.
- Knowledge and ability to implement principles of clinical governance including audit, risk management, supervision, clinical effectiveness, continuing professional development, quality standards and outcomes
- Experience of managing and configuring budgets and the skills to monitor and assess financial information.
- Previous experience of successfully delivering national and local infection control policies and procedures.
- Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust’s and your performance expectations.
- Evidence of high levels of expertise in clinical care and management of people, with complex co-morbidities, long-term conditions, and diverse social needs, and of delivering rehabilitation, continuing care and end of life care services.
- Sound knowledge of relevant National Service Frameworks, guidelines, strategies and initiatives and the ability to appraise, interpret and implement in practice.
- Ability to rapidly synthesise and analyse complex information and present options, appraisals, recommendations and reports.
- Skilled in word processing, spreadsheets email, databases and using the internet.
- Highly developed communication skills (written and verbal) and the ability to communicate on complex matters issues and ideas in challenging situations.
- The ability to implement sound performance and reporting mechanisms for service activity, quality and outcomes and recognise and respond early to variances.
- Able to demonstrate tact and sensitivity with staff, colleagues and the public
Other Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to inspire, motivate and empower teams around common goals, to manage conflict and handle conflicting views
- Able to travel to a variety of locations within the Trust
- Able to work flexibly and respond to changing demands and priorities
- The ability to work under extreme pressure and achieve deadlines
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
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Text: 07501066267
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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
- Mary Richardson
- Job title
- Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07547 635 985
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