Director of Nursing and Quality - Hereford, Herefordshire, United Kingdom - Wye Valley NHS Trust

Description

Excellence in clinical practice and nursing care is promoted across all areas

The matron will make a proactive contribution to planning for and improving futures services, and take an active lead in project management.

The matron, working with the General Manager Patient Access, and General Manager of diagnostics and will lead the quality and standards of care agenda within the identified directorate/specialty, particularly providing assurance around compliance with regulatory and internal standards of care.

The matron will ensure effective departmental processes are in place and that patient flow enhances the quality of patient care, experience and outcomes.

This will be achieved through appropriate deployment and supervision of staff, as well as practice and professional development.

This role will operate within the clinical governance framework of the organisation and will work in a collaborative approach with the multidisciplinary team in the interests of developing and promoting high quality patient care.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Demonstrate sound knowledge and experience of health services and ability to interpret policy at local level
Evidence in developing a quality improvement programme within a multi-professional environment
Ability to analyse and interpret data

Project Management

Proven experience of managing nursing team to include Budget management experience
HR processes, financial management and clinical standards
Dealing with a range of complex issues both in writing and in person e.g. patient complaints/concerns, staff grievances/disciplinaries