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North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

About

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.

Contact

Address: North Middlesex Hospital; Sterling Way; Edmonton; London; N18 1QX
Contact Number: 020 8887 2000

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Ref: 393-NMUH-2049 Vacancy ID: 6891396

Associate Director of Nursing for Cancer, Palliative Care &End of Life

Accepting applications until: 06-Jan-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 06-Jan-2025 23:59

Location

Site: North Middlesex Hospital
Town: London
Postcode: N18 1QX
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £80,025 - £91,336 Per Annum Inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 8c)

Specialty

Main area: Oncology

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

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3^rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to NMUH transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

If you are an EU/EEA citizen who does not have EU Settlement or Pre-Settled status, you will require a visa to work in the UK.

If you require sponsorship for a visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check to ensure you are eligible under the UKVI points based system

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.

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