Head of Nursing

We are looking for a highly motivated, responsible individual with a strong sense of accountability to fulfil this exciting role of Head of Nursing within the Cancer and Clinical Support Clinical Group. This is a senior nursing role providing leadership and direction to nursing staff within a designated directorate or site, consisting of multiple specialties located across Queen's and King George Hospitals, and other satellite sites.

You will work in a directorate triumvirate with the Clinical Director and the General Manager, with a particular focus on providing high quality, safe, well-governed, productive and cost-effective services which support the Trust in delivering its strategic objectives.

With guidance and direction from the Clinical Group triumvirate the you will contribute and implement Clinical Group strategy. This will include working with the Chief Nurse, Senior Nurses and Heads of Therapy Services to support, influence and guide the development and delivery of excellent nursing care.

You will be the professional accountable nursing leader across the directorate or site ensuring appropriate structures are in place to support and inspire staff at all levels encouraging innovation, excellence and succession planning.

The postholder will support the Clinical Group Director of Nursing / Midwifery /Healthcare Professionals and others in providing strategic and inspirational leadership that will create a caring, fair and open culture in line with our Trust values.

Main duties of the job

This role along with triumvirate colleagues will provide compassionate and inclusive leadership to those within their areas of responsibility. In addition, there will be joint responsibility and accountability with the triumvirate for delivering, patient safety, financial targets, efficiencies, workforce planning and service delivery to improve safe patient flow within and outside the directorate.

Recognising and celebrating our workforce demographics the post holder will be responsible for ensuring the directorate operates in an inclusive and transparent way. Improving and maintaining staff experience within the directorate is a key requirement for this role.

The post holder will be the professional accountable nursing leader across the directorate or site ensuring appropriate structures are in place to support and inspire staff at all levels encouraging innovation, excellence and succession planning.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.