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Medway NHS Foundation Trust

About

Medway NHS Foundation Trust is a public benefit corporation authorised under the National Health Service Act 2006. It is a single-site hospital based in Gillingham, Medway Maritime Hospital, which serves a population of more than 424,000 across Medway and Swale.

We provide clinical services to almost half a million patients a year, including more than 125,000 Emergency Department attendances, more than 88,000 admissions, more than 278,000 outpatients appointments and more than 5,000 babies born last year.

As an NHS Foundation Trust, we have a 24-strong Council of Governors and more than 10,000 public members. We employ around 4,400 staff, making us one of Medway’s largest employers. In addition, close to 400 volunteers provide invaluable support across the League of Friends, Hospital Radio and the Voluntary Services Department.

Contact

Address: Medway Maritime Hospital; Windmill Road; Gillingham; Kent; ME7 5NY
Contact Number: 01634 830000

Find out more

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Ref: 275-2502DDoN-S&A Vacancy ID: 7019330

Divisional Director of Nursing for Surgery & Anaesthetics Division

Accepting applications until: 09-Mar-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 09-Mar-2025 23:59

Location

Site: Medway Maritime Hospital
Address: Windmill Road
Town: Gillingham
Postcode: ME7 5NY
Major / Minor Region: Kent

Contract type & working pattern

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

Salary

Salary: £105,385 - £121,271 per annum/pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 9)

Specialty

Main area: Operations

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.

Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Be the Divisional Lead for complaints and patient experience. To ensure patients and users of the services are given the opportunity to feedback on their experiences and to be involved in service development and redesign.

Lead, inspire and develop the nursing workforce within the Division to deliver high quality, patient centred nursing care that meets the needs of the patient using highly specialist knowledge.

Ensure the Division has a comprehensive, progressive and sufficiently robust systems of internal control in place to implement and monitor the Patient First Strategy, so as to ensure the Trust consistently delivers on its vision of Exceptional healthcare, personally delivered, are established and working effectively from ward to Board.

Provide strategic nursing leadership in order to consistently develop high quality, safe and cost effective nursing services for patients, the post holder is responsible for clinical risk and quality governance within the division and provides professional leadership to all staff within the division including developing the clinical leadership capability.

Be responsible to the Chief Operating Officer and professionally accountable to the Chief Nursing Officer.

Support the Chief Nursing Officer with the delivery of a wider corporate nursing and quality agenda including (but not limited too) patient safety, patient experience, improved outcomes and the delivery of the Trust’s Patient First Strategy for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (AHP) which will strengthen the nursing voice and secure the workforce of the future.

Please note that we do not accept applications via CV or recruitment agencies.

This post will close before the intended closing date should sufficient number of suitable applications be received. Therefore, if you are interested in applying for this role, we suggest that you do so at the earliest opportunity.

Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.

All staff no matter where they work or which age group of patients they work with must be aware of their responsibility to act when they feel a child, young person or vulnerable adult has been or is at risk of abuse.

We are a fully non-smoking Trust. Smoking is completely prohibited in all Trust buildings, grounds and car parks for patients, visitors, staff and contractors.

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You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through NHS Jobs, and furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via NHS Jobs. If you have a query relating to your application, please contact the Resourcing Team on 01634 830000.

If you have not heard from us within 21 days of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.

We wish to stress that no discourtesy is intended in following such a procedure, and you should not let this deter you from future applications.

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

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered and practicing nurse with current live NMC registration
Degree in nursing or clinical subject
Doctorate’ Degree in relevant subject supplemented further by evidence of continuing professional
Post graduate management qualification ow equivalent leadership experience
Recognised leadership course
Evidence of comprehensive continuing personal and professional development
Working minimum at band 8c level or equivalent

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Ability to think, develop, plan and implement strategically, tactically and creatively
Influence at a strategic level across and beyond complex organisations
Prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands Professionally credibility with staff – in particular senior clinical and managerial staff
Ability to influence, guide, persuade and negotiate at an organisational and externally with a range of stakeholders
Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
An innovative and creative approach and ability to inspire and ability to enthuse others
Ability to develop strategic priorities and to organise staff and resources to achieve high quality patient care and delivery of health care targets
Enthusiastic about ensuring services and care is good for patients
Must be able to deal with frequent interruptions, meet deadlines and concentrate for lengthy periods of time
Champion for excellent patient care and quality

Experience

Essential criteria

Extensive senior clinical management experience relevant to the post
Extensive experience of working as a senior nurse in leadership and management role in a health care environment, of which should be above band 8c level and at least 2 at Divisional Management level or equivalent, in another acute hospital
Experience of managing an operational team, targets and budgets
Demonstrable previous success in leading and delivering significant change and performance with and through multiple and diverse clinical teams, by engaging them in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
Experience of multi-agency working
Experience of working with patients/service users to improve their experience
Experience in implementing safety/quality initiatives and service improvement projects
Experience in setting objectives and performance management and holding staff to account
Experience of effective workforce planning, and can demonstrate an understanding of establishment and acuity and dependency tools. Significant management experience which includes but is not limited to the NHS
Experience in providing advice on complex professional issues to the executive/non- executive team and all other levels of the organisation, external agencies and stakeholders e.g. NHSi/e, CCG etc.
Experience of producing high quality reports in a timely manner for consideration at senior level internally and externally

Skills

Essential criteria

Excellent well developed leadership, influencing and motivational skills to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust’s and your performance expectations and delivery of corporate objectives
Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
Excellent inter-personal skills with the ability to positively interact in difficult, highly emotive and potentially hostile situations, including to distressed and or large groups of people in a politically aware and sensitive manner
Highly developed communication skills, with the ability to deliver presentations and represent the Trust in the media
Ability to interpret highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information where there are significant barriers
Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief ‘up the line’
A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals
Advanced planning and organisational skills – able to lead/organise multiple projects ensuring timely delivery of goals and milestones