Nursing Lead for East of England Renal Operational Delivery Network - Stevenage, United Kingdom - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Description

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Nursing Lead for East of England Renal Operational Delivery Network who 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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Ensure teams and relevant stakeholders have effective opportunities to contribute to the development of the ODN to discuss, influence and progress joint plans, facilitating collaborative working.

Working for our organisation

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.
We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

• Hertford County, Hertford

• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

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; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding & starting a new job is an important life decision. 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. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

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Person specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential criteria

• Registered nurse.
• Educated to degree leve
• Specialist training in relevant area.
• Evidence of continuing professional development. Masters qualification or equivalent experience.

Desirable criteria

• Post-graduate education
• Management/leadership qualification. Project management course (PRINCE2 or equivalent).

Previous Experience

Essential criteria

• Managing complex information to inform healthcare strategy
• Change management on a small scale.
• Experience working across organisational boundaries in the Health Service.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team work.
• Patient and carer awareness and experience

Desirable criteria

• Change management on a large scale.
• Networking experience.
• Operational experience.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills at different levels and with individuals and groups.
• Strong negotiation, persuasion and influencing skills.
• Ability to deal with conflict and challenge.
• Ability to manage complex issues where high degree of judgement required.
• Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes. .
• Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution for others
• 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.
• Able to use IT packages effectively.
• Organised and methodical.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

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

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include
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.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
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. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. 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 understand the importance of balancing work and home life. 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.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.