Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Management
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 134-6560395SL
- Employer
- North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pemberton House
- Town
- Sunderland
- Closing
- 02/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Nurse & AHP Officer
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Job overview
***Should you have any queries in relation to this vacancy, please contact Hunters on [email protected]. For Presentation queries and where to send this to, please also direct this to [email protected].***
We have an extremely exciting opportunity to join our system as Chief Nurse & Allied Health Professional Officer. Our Integrated Care System (ICS) is the largest in the country, serving a population of 3.2 million people, and we are regularly rated amongst the best in the country for the quality of our services. We have a strong track record of being at the forefront of innovation and our future Chief Nurse and AHP Officer will be crucial to helping us maintain our NENC Way and deliver best in class services to our communities.
As a health and care system we have much to be proud of, with some of the most accessible primary care services and best performing emergency care in the country, alongside world class facilities and national centres of excellence. We are proud to have some of the best research and development programmes of any health and care system, and work closely with our partners to develop programmes and procedures that look at ways of transforming and improving health outcomes.
Main duties of the job
The Chief Nurse & AHP Officer role is a key member of our Board, providing clinical and strategic leadership in the development of Nursing and AHP standards across our health and care system. The Chief Nurse & AHP Officer is accountable for all matters, statutory and non-statutory, relating to our nursing, midwifery and AHP workforce, responsible for safeguarding, quality improvement, control and assurance of the ICB.
Working closely with our Chief Medical Officer, they will provide strong and effective clinical leadership as a key member of our Executive team, ensuring that patient safety and the delivery of high-quality care remain central to our strategic direction and decision making. Our future Chief Nurse & AHP Officer will celebrate the richness of our workforce and populations, supporting us to develop and implement our ‘better health and wellbeing for all’ strategy.
This is an exceptional opportunity to join our system as Chief Nurse & AHP Officer and we are looking to speak with collaborative, passionate and inclusive leaders who have significant experience leading and developing nursing, midwifery and ahp standards. You will be able to evidence and excellent track record of improving patient experience, developing workforces and leading initiatives that impact the quality and safety agenda.
Working for our organisation
Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.
The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.
With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.
The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Essential Criteria:
· Evidence of sustained personal & professional development
· Registered nurse with post registration qualification, at degree level
· Current NMC Registration
· Masters level qualification or equivalent experience
· Substantial Board level experience as an Executive Director of Nursing (minimum 3 years) with a demonstrable track record of success in a large and complex NHS organisation
· A proven track record of nursing leadership, driving standards of care and delivering change within an organisation is essential
· Experience in dealing with the complex field of litigation, regulation & improvement
· Knowledge and substantial experience of leading the nursing agenda within an NHS organisation
· Knowledge and experience of leading organisational clinical quality, clinical governance & risk management agendas
· Demonstrable track record of achievement in quality and patent safety
· Experience in the management of complex projects
· Experience of effective partnership and working with internal and external stakeholders
· Experience of Implementing governance frameworks
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters level qualification or equivalent experience
- Registered nurse with post registration qualification, at degree level
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate management qualification at Masters level
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Substantial Board level experience as an Executive Director of Nursing with a demonstrable track record of success in a large and complex NHS organisation
- A proven track record of nursing leadership, driving standards of care and delivering change within an organisation is essential
- Experience in dealing with the complex field of litigation, regulation & improvement
- Knowledge and substantial experience of leading the nursing agenda within an NHS organisation
- Experience of effective partnership and working with internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrable track record of achievement in quality and patent safety
Desirable criteria
- Experience at Director level within provider, commissioning and oversight and assurance / regulatory organisations
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Finn McNulty
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07966006091
- Additional information
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