Chief Nurse and Director of Quality & People

• Lead the organisation's approach to clinical governance, patient safety and experience, ensuring learning and improvement are embedded in all teams.
• Serve as Director of Infection Prevention and Control, and Executive Lead for the Quality and Safety and Putting People First Committees.
• Ensure compliance with Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards and contractual quality requirements.
• Provide assurance to the Board through clear reporting, data and narrative on clinical quality, risk and improvement

Essential

• Significant proven experience in a senior leadership role including
• analysing and evaluating evidence to give assurance in decision making, interacting and influencing senior stakeholders (at or equivalent to Executive level).
• Experience and understanding of leading and managing change with evidence of achieving strategic outcomes and operational performance improvement, within a range of organisations including those traditionally hostile to change.
• Significant appreciation of health care systems, its challenges and governance infrastructure including the importance of collaboration to drive delivery and improvement.
• Previous experience of managing sizeable budgets and a portfolio of several departments.
• Experience of working within a complex environment with political dimensions and across organisational boundaries demonstrating a track record of successful working with internal and external stakeholders, including regulatory relationships.
• Demonstrable evidence of being able to develop a positive culture and climate, drawing on the principles of a Just and Learning Culture.

Desirable

• Experience of working at Board level or equivalent within health and/or public sector.
• Experience of working in an employee-owned and/or social enterprise.

Essential

• Ability to develop strategy that meets the needs of patients and communities, as well as statutory duties, national and local system
• priorities.
• Understands the importance of the impact of the delivery of strategic plans, including through quality and inequalities impact assessments.
• Effective at improving operational performance through fit for purpose processes and holding people to account for delivery.
• Understand accountability and delivery requirements and need to be bound by collective decisions based on objective evaluation of research, evidence, risk and opinions.
• Can bring a balanced and evidence-based approach in the context of the boards risk appetite when considering innovative solutions and improvements.
• Demonstrates a leadership style which is visible, supportive, democratic and transformational.
• Is committed to inclusivity, promoting diversity and can evidence contribution to eradicating discrimination.
• Ability to create and sustain strong healthy team cultures and role model organisational values.
• Ability to develop and maintain positive, high level relationships and
• professional credibility with key stakeholders and influencers.
• Demonstrates commitment to the values, principles of public service and health and social care in particular.
• Adaptable, self-aware and able to cope with competing demands
• working under pressure and working in a matrix management environment.
• Curious and innovative, though grounded in a strong service focused approach. Ability to build an effective team with a combination of skills and abilities to deliver the organisations objectives.

Essential

• Driving licence and have access to a vehicle.

Essential

• Educated to masters level or equivalent experience. Holds a registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Commitment to ongoing personal and professional development, modelling behaviours that demonstrate willingness to learn and improve.

Desirable

• Additional management qualification(s).

Essential

• Demonstrate commitment to CSH Core Values and Behaviours.
• High level of personal resilience.
• Flexible and responsive.