GESH Deputy Director of Nursing

The Site Deputy Director of Nursing (DDoN) is required to work at pace to support the Site Nursing and Medical Leadership Team and regularly interact with healthcare professionals and patients. Consequently, the DDoN may need to work long hours, including weekends and holidays, depending on the needs of the hospital.
As an integral part of the professional nursing senior leadership team they will work proactively with senior colleagues to provide professional leadership and support operational delivery of services at Site with strategic oversight and support from a lead at Group.
They are responsible for supporting the Site CNO with overseeing and coordinating the hospital's nursing department and its daily operations. Together the Site DCNO and Site CNO's primary focus is on Site leadership for day to day operational issues and the provision of support to Group Corporate Functions, Site Nursing and Medical Leadership and Site clinical divisions.
Together with the Site DCNO they are responsible by working in partnership with Group colleagues for the delivery of all nursing strategies and operational delivery requirements with reference to the following 12 service functions which will be managed and overseen at Group., + Ensure senior opinion in decision making
+ Responsibility for the day to day operational delivery of the nursing/midwifery and AHP functions at Site, working with the Site CNO, Site teams and Group Directors
+ Monitor and minimise risks to patients
+ Have responsibility for the day to day operational delivery of the nursing/midwifery and AHP functions at Site, working with the Site CNO, Site teams and Group Director
+ Support the Group CNO in their capacity as Director of Infection Prevention and Control, ensuring that patients risk of infection is minimised, and that the Trust is fully compliant with national standards and expectations
+ Support the Group CNO to maintain robust systems for clinical governance
+ Collaborate in the annual nursing establishment review to ensure safe staffing and inform any investment requirements in nursing
+ Have responsibility for supporting the operational delivery of Corporate Nursing strategies and functions at Site
+ Promote groupwide strategies and clinical collaboration and implement national strategy relevant to nursing, midwifery and AHP's
+ Support the Site CNO and DCNO with the leadership of one Corporate Nursing function on behalf of the Group.

Working for our organisation
After many years of collaboration and creating closer working ties, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust formed a hospital group and appointed a Group Chief Executive in August 2021 (following the appointment of a Chairman in Common in 2019) and a single executive team in January 2022.
Working as a hospital group under one executive leadership team allows for more joined up decision making for local people, a larger and more resilient clinical workforce, reduced variation in care and access to a wider range of services for our patients.
The Group Chief Nurse (GCNO) and Group Chief Medical Officer (CMO) are the Executive Directors jointly accountable to the Trust Boards for the delivery of the quality and safety agenda, including patient experience., To support the leadership and promotion of the hospital's nursing department and its daily operations. Together with the Site CNO and DCNO the postholder's primary focus is on the fundamentals of care (clinical standards), ensuring that all patients receive high-quality, efficient, and effective healthcare through effective leadership and the provision of support to Group Corporate Functions, Site Nursing and Medical Leadership and Site clinical divisions to demonstrate:
Leadership
+ Provide leadership and direction to nursing staff, fostering a team-oriented environment that encourages professional growth and development
+ Ensure appropriate professional standards are in place including the professional regulation and revalidation of nursing and midwifery staff (in conjunction with the Head of Midwifery), and that nurses and midwives have access to appropriate professional advice
+ Working with the group lead for non-medical education, ensure that appropriate professional development programmes and education and training opportunities are in place and available to all staff.
+ Ensure that effective strategies are in place for workforce development, recruitment and retention within nursing and midwifery, working with the Group CPO and Trust HR/People leaders.
+ Demonstrate strong visible leadership to the nursing and midwifery professions and will build upon the nursing and midwifery leadership at all levels.
+ Lead on clinical competency and ensure competencies are developed for advanced practice maximising the opportunity to develop new roles and new ways of working that are in line with Modernising Nursing Careers.
+ Ensure the unregulated workforce is fully integrated into the nursing and midwifery workforce by ensuring development opportunities and competency developments are available.
+ Ensure that senior nursing and midwifery staff have development programmes in place and will ensure that aspiring nurse directors are identified and supported by appropriate supervision and development.
Patient Care
+ Ensure the delivery of patient care through the coordination of nurse training, patient scheduling, and the implementation of innovative nursing practices focused on the fundamentals of care.
+ Evidence of measurable improvements in the performance indicators for clinical standards, both outcomes and outputs, year on year
+ Evidence of measurable improvements in quality standards both outcomes and outputs, year on year
Safe Staffing
+ Support safe staffing
+ Support processes for the recruitment, hiring, and training of nursing staff, always ensuring adequate staffing levels.
Quality Improvement
+ Ensure timely delivery and monitoring for effectiveness and impact on standards of patient and service user care and treatment
+ Ensure quality improvement techniques and tools are embedded within Site based decision making, planning and performance management processes
People Management
+ Responsible for the line management
+ Ensure that appropriate systems are in place for directly managed staff and their development
+ Share the values that are important to the Group, and behave in a way that reflects these
+ Be a visible leader facilitating and encompassing staff and clinicians to contribute to the overall strategic direction of the Group and Sites.
+ Ensure that the recruitment, retention, motivation and development of staff is a key management priority.
+ Ensure that sickness absence is managed and recorded in accordance with the Trusts Sickness Absence Management Policy and is reported accurately to inform Trust workforce information systems.
+ Conduct highly complex human resource meetings in line with HR policy
Financial Management:
+ Comply with Trust standing financial instructions and ensure that all accountable staff comply with the Trust's Standing Financial Instructions.
+ Responsible for managing, co-ordinating and monitoring multiple budget expenditure and making recommendations and implementing cost improvements and investments programmes.
+ Manage service delivery within his/her control to ensure that budgets are adhered to and that end of year targets are met.
+ Responsible for managing departmental budget / approved project implementation costs and benefits delivery, including realising agreed financial saving

Patient safety and patient involvement
+ Ensure that patient safety remains at the centre of the Site's core
+ Ensure that systems of assurance are in place at Site to monitor and minimise risks to patients
+ Support the work of the DIPC and Clinical DIPC at site
+ In conjunction with the Site CNO and DCNO, Site CMO and COO, and Group CNO, ensure that patient safety is reflected as a priority within the decision-making processes of the site.
+ Work as part of the Group Chief Nursing Office on improving the patient experience and ensuring that the Trust learns from patient feedback including complaints and PALS
Safeguarding
+ Support the Group lead for safeguarding in the delivery of their role
+ Ensure good safeguarding practice has the appropriate visibility and compliance at site level and that local policies reflect groupwide strategy and best practice
+ Support day to day operational safeguarding issues on site as they arise ensuring that there is a close process for escalation to the Site CNO and Group Director of Safeguarding

Expert Practice
+ Offer senior nursing opinion within the Site Leadership Team
+ Participate in the teaching and education of clinical staff either through formal teaching or through supervision.
+ Ensure that nursing and midwifery practice across the organisation is up to date and evidence based.
+ Ensure that key nursing indicators are reflected in a balanced scorecard for nursing and that this is implemented across the Trust., + Support the Site and Group CNOs to maintain robust systems for clinical governance, ensuring there are appropriate systems (including information) in place to monitor performance and identify areas for improvement.
+ Ensure that patient care improvements are effectively and safely delivered through clinical service/system redesign through collaborative working with Site and Group colleagues
Compliance and Assurance
+ With the gesh Director of Compliance ensure appropriate CQC compliance monitoring programmes and processes for Nursing are in place across Clinical Divisions and Corporate Services to be able to evidence registration and ensure awareness of and readiness for external inspection and registration validation
+ Ensure there are systems in place to co-ordinate monitoring and follow-up of recommendations from internal and external audits
+ Work with key internal stakeholders (e.g. performance and information) to improve ward to board (and vice versa) information and communication to facilitate board assurance on key Nursing issues.
Corporate/Strategic
+ Lead key strategic initiatives as requested by the Site Chief Nurse
+ Lead, manage and influence people through motivation and effective communication
+ Contribute to the delivery of the Group and Trust's objectives on quality and safety governance and compliance
+ Contribute to the delivery of national standards and external requirements for all aspects of quality and safety governance and compliance
+ Undertake any other duties commensurate with the post as required by Site Leadership Team or the Group Chief Nurse or Group Chief Medical Officer
Research, Education and Training:
+ To develop, facilitate, co-ordinate and evaluate a programme of Nursing education and training across the Trust.
+ To respond to the outcome of training requirements in the organisation identified through training needs analysis, incidents and root cause analysis.
+ To contribute to the development of the undergraduate and postgraduate training programmes locally and nationally in order to facilitate the advancement of structured, evidence-based career progression.
+ Lead and advise on Trust wide research projects that impact on clinical practice in Nursing.
+ Contribute to multidisciplinary clinical audit and review of mortality and incidents to ensure lessons are learnt from any Nursing related incident analysis.
+ Contribute to the development and implementation of in-house education and training programmes, working with the Head of Training and Development in the Trust.
+ Contribute to the Trust Research & Development strategy.
+ To be responsible for any Nursing clinical risk management and competency-based training requirement that arises from role development.