- To provide strong leadership and professional nursing advice during an exciting time of change, enabling high quality patient centred services to be delivered to patients across the Trust.
- Be responsible for leading patient safety, complaints, risk and medical equipment management as well as the day to day professional effectiveness of nursing across the totality of their portfolio.
- Take the lead role on a range of corporate projects identified by the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer.
- To work in partnership with Directorates in the Trust in developing and implementing the Trusts ambitions set out in the We Care Strategy.
- NMC registered professional
- Educated to degree level with a masters or equivalent experience
- Significant senior clinical management experience at a head of service or more senior level
- Extensive knowledge and expertise in delivering successful strategic and operational performance
- Financial awareness and successful management of a large budget over a series of service lines
- Strategic understanding; able to interpret national and local health and social care policy and its impact for KCHFT
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Senior Practitioner Health Visiting - Gravesend, United Kingdom - Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and adaptable Associate Director of Nursing to join our professional team.
You'll provide support to the Chief Nursing Officer and the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer by leading on a broad and interesting portfolio of work. You will directly support the Patient Safety Team, Medical Equipment, Complaints and Risk Teams. It will provide the opportunity to develop organisational governance skills and would suit someone with the ambition to progress to Deputy Chief Nursing Officer/Chief Nursing Officer.
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Working for our organisation
One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated 'outstanding' by the CQC. We've got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values C ompassionate A spirational R esponsive E xcellent
We're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.
Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we're reminded every day how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
Looking for professional development? We can support that too Our will help you achieve your aspirations
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The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
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All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
It is important to us that all our staff are aligned to our Values and in particular the behaviours we expect from KCHFT managers. With this in mind as part of the selection process for this position you will be asked to complete two other activities in addition to the competency-based interview that you will invited to. This extended selection process is designed to assess your management style and the specific details of the exercises will be given if you are successfully shortlisted. The provisional date of the selection event is 9th May 2024, although this may be subject to change.
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Although vaccination against COVID-19 is not mandatory, we are strongly encouraging colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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