Registered Nurse - Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (Enherts-TR)

Description

Nursing Lead for East of England Renal Operational Delivery Network

NHS AfC:
Band 8a
Main area Renal Grade
NHS AfC:
Band 8a Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Until March 25)

Hours Part time - 7.Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £50,952 - £57,349 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 07/05/2024 23:59 Interview date 23/05/2024
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

We are recruiting for a Nursing Lead for East of England Renal Operational Delivery Networkwho shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The nursing lead role will support the East of England Renal ODN in the delivery of a challenging service improvement agenda.

The post holder will provide clinical nursing leadership to develop and support the implementation of service improvement projects that ensure the network delivers sustainable, high quality patient care in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

Building upon the work already undertaken and working closely with the teams in the 6 Trusts within the ODN, the post holder will identify opportunities and lead in the implementation of solutions to improve governance and patient experience using service improvement principles and tools.

All service improvement projects will be aligned with and embedded into the work programme for the network.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, organised individual to join a friendly, innovating team able to make a difference to the care of renal patients across a region.

Renal Networks will focus on priority service areas to bring about improvement in the quality and equity of care and outcomes of their population, present and future.

The Nursing Lead for East of England Renal Operational Delivery Network will support the renal workstreams, with the Clinical Lead, ensuring that priorities are agreed and delivered in the process of reducing unwarranted variation and improving renal care for all patients across the region.

To work with and provide support to the ODN units teams, patients, and other stakeholders, enabling a multi-disciplinary and multi-service approach to sharing, influencing, and implementing new processes resulting in whole system change across the East of England renal ODN.

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 plus dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care.

Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

• We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.

Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen & consider all requests.

Qualifications/Training
Specialist training in relevant area.
Evidence of continuing professional development. Management/leadership qualification. Project management course (PRINCE2 or equivalent).
Managing complex information to inform healthcare strategy
Change management on a small scale.
Experience working across organisational boundaries in the Health Service.
Change management on a large scale.
Networking experience.
Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes. .
Ability to represent the best interests of a network

Ability to think strategically and support the network with transformational change where this is necessary in order to meet standard.

Knowledge and experience of working in clinical networks within the NHS
Change management theory
Workforce planning tools
Clinical governance and risk management concepts and techniques.
Knowledge and experience of personalised care programme including use of PROMs

We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community.

We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve.

In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
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Secondments/Fixed term
Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert.

If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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