Chief Nurse

We are seeking an inspirational, values-driven Chief Nurse to provide outstanding executive leadership and professional direction across nursing, midwifery, allied health professions and scientific services. This is a pivotal, statutory Board role with responsibility for ensuring exceptional quality of care, safe services, and outstanding patient outcomes and experience across the Trust. The post-holder will play a central role in shaping the Trust's strategic direction and will be a visible, credible, and influential clinical leader. As a full voting member of the Trust Board of Directors and Executive Team, the Chief Nurse will provide expert professional advice, assurance and leadership on all matters relating to quality, safety, patient outcomes, and experience. Working closely with the Chief Executive, Medical Director and Executive colleagues, the Chief Nurse will champion person-centred care and continuously improve outcomes for patients, families and communities., The Chief Nurse will:

• Provide professional nursing leadership, direction and expert advice to the Executive Team and Trust Board, ensuring that patient outcomes, safety and experience are central to all strategic decisions.
• Lead and inspire nursing, midwifery, allied health professional and scientific staff, fostering a culture of excellence, compassion and continuous improvement in patient care.
• Drive the Trust's quality, safety and productivity agenda, with clear accountability for delivering measurable improvements in patient outcomes and experience.
• Ensure the consistent delivery of high-quality, safe, effective and compassionate care for all patients across services.
• Provide visible, credible and accessible executive leadership, championing professional standards and supporting staff to deliver their very best for patients.
• Lead the development of the nursing, midwifery and AHP workforce, ensuring safe and effective staffing models that support high-quality care and sustainable services.
• Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion are embedded within patient experience and service delivery, reducing health inequalities and improving access and outcomes for all.
• Act as the Board-level Executive lead for Infection Prevention and Control, ensuring robust systems, governance and assurance.
• Ensure compliance with the NMC Code of Professional Practice and CQC standards, providing assurance to the Board on quality and regulatory risk
  
  North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.
Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs. Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs. A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019. We employ nearly 5,000 people from over 80 nationalities, striving to be a diverse, inclusive employer and recognised leader in equality. We support flexible working, welcoming flexible applications. Proud of our many accreditations, we are embedding an anti-racist approach in all we do.

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