Head of Nursing

• Significant senior nursing leadership experience within an acute setting.
• A proven track record of delivering improvements in quality, safety and patient outcomes.
• Strong experience of workforce planning, recruitment, retention and staff engagement.
• Excellent leadership, influencing and relationship-building skills.
• Experience of leading cultural change and service transformation.
• A passion for developing people and creating high-performing teams.
• The ability to balance operational pressures with strategic vision and innovation.
• Evidence of successful partnership working across professional and organisational boundaries.
• Ensure delivery of safe, evidence-based, compassionate and person-centred care.
• Strengthen patient pathways, improve outcomes, & enhance experience for service users.

Essential

• Registered trained nurse MSc and/ or equivalent clinical experience that recognises highly developed and complex levels of knowledge
• Management/leadership qualifications or equivalent experience
• Specialist knowledge at doctorate level or equivalent experience in a related field
• Evidence of continuing personal development

Essential

• Significant acute operational nursing experience in a complex healthcare organisation
• Evidence of nursing leadership role in an acute setting
• Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them
• Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources
• Experience in the supervision and management of staff and students
• Experience in complex employment related issues
• Experience of using acuity tools and triangulation of data to review and ensure safe skill mix
• Manager on-call
• Evidence of leading and managing change within a complex environment
• Experience of representing a service within a Trust setting
• Experience of managing a budget
• Experience of managing other staff groups
• Managing a cross site, complex function
• Experience of SLAs and contractual working

Essential

• Ability to self-evaluate and self-reflect
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings
• Ability to initiate and implement change and improvements
• Good analytical and organisational ability
• Ability to demonstrate and model strong leadership skills
• Awareness of developments in the NHS and service delivery
• Ability to influence and facilitate MDT working
• Able to communicate with patients and families in an empathetic manner regarding their treatment and procedures and communicate complex sensitive information
• Effective problem-solving skills
• Good computer skills
• Experience of implementing Evidence Based Practice
• Applies working knowledge of relevant health legislation

Essential

• Ability to lead by example, promoting the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, integrity and probity
• High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement and flexibility in approach and attitude
• Committed to the continuous development of staff and self
• To be flexible, decisive, using sound judgement in decision making in a timely and confident manner