Overview

Are you an inspirational and dynamic nursing leader looking for your next challenge? Do you have a passion for urgent and emergency care and a drive to make a real difference to patients, colleagues, and services?You will support the Head of Nursing Family Health in strategic and operational decision-making, working collaboratively across UHN. Innovation and transformation will be key to this role, as you embed best practice and improve patient pathways. As a visible and supportive leader, you will develop and empower teams to excel in emergency care delivery.Managerially accountable to the Head of Nursing and Professionally accountable to the Chief Nurse. The post holder will have operational responsibility for ensuring the delivery of clinical quality standards, patient safety, and the overall patient experience in the Division, providing professional leadership, advice, and support for the Division to ensure that there is a consistency of practice high standards of care with a strong patient safety focus.Working with a vision of delivering the UHN Values, the Deputy Head of Nursing will support the Head of Nursing and the Division Triumvirate to provide professional leadership management to the Nursing service for the Division. We are seeking an experienced nursing leader with significant experience in Family Health and a proven track record of leading service improvements. Strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills are essential, along with a commitment to patient safety, quality improvement, and staff development. You will need the ability to work under pressure, make sound clinical and operational decisions, and drive continuous improvement.If you are a motivated and experienced nursing leader who is ready to take the next step in your career, we would love to hear from you.Support the Head of Nursing to deliver a safe sustainable affordable Nursing workforce across the Division. Working alongside the Head of Nursing the Deputy Head of Nursing will be responsible for the care and professional practice delivered within a significantly large Division. This would equate to a nursing (registered and unregistered) workforce of more than 550 funded whole time equivalent staff and could cover more than one hospital site. However, the area of responsibility may be smaller in size and volume if there is a requirement for large scale change of service or that the complexities of the service are significant. Complexities of the service may come from the national profile that the specialty attracts or the consistent need to engage and work with stakeholders/agencies outside of the organisation.Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.Who we are

Our Excellence Values: Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity, Courage. We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone''s full potential. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups and we understand the importance of diversity and inclusion. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds to ensure everyone feels supported and belongs at Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.Apply today and join the largest family in Northamptonshire.Role context

The Deputy Head of Nursing deputises for the Head of Nursing on an as-required basis and will support the delivery of safe, clinically and cost-effective and compassionate nursing care within the Division, providing assurance evidence to the Head of Nursing regarding compliance with professional, organisational, and national standards.Support decision-making where practice or service delivery issues cross Matron specialties or where cross-specialty leadership is required.Establish and foster an effective working relationship with the Division Triumvirate to lead improvements in nursing care, service delivery, and achievement of organisational priorities within the Division.Support the Head of Nursing to lead the development of nursing policy and processes, maximise opportunities through co-design, new care models, and empowerment of service users and carers.Act as Trust-wide representative for nursing and as an ambassador of UHN as appropriate.Utilise all forms of communication to ensure effective dissemination of local Trust and National information or guidance to all nurses, interpreting new information for implementation in clinical practice.Communicate highly complex information to Executives and the Board; present information to large groups with tact and diplomacy.Maintain and handle confidential patient and staff information with appropriate record keeping and storage.Responsibilities and accountability

Support the Head of Nursing to deliver strategic and operational oversight for clinical quality standards, patient safety, and patient experience within the Division.Provide professional leadership, advice, and support to ensure consistency of practice and high standards of care with a strong patient safety focus.Lead and support the development of nursing policy and processes to maximise opportunities for improved care models and service user empowerment.Collaborate with the Division Triumvirate to drive improvements in nursing care and service delivery in line with organisational priorities.Governance and professional standards

Ensure compliance with professional, organisational and national standards and provide assurance evidence to the Head of Nursing.Represent nursing across the Trust and be an ambassador for UHN as appropriate.Qualifications and experience

Significant experience in Family Health with a proven track record of leading service improvements.Strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills; commitment to patient safety, quality improvement, and staff development.Ability to work under pressure, make sound clinical and operational decisions, and drive continuous improvement.Experience in managing a large nursing workforce across multiple sites (or similar scope).About the employer and environment

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust provides general acute services and hyper-acute stroke, vascular and renal services to Northamptonshire residents. It is an accredited cancer centre serving a wider population and is a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation. The Trust emphasises teamwork, development, inclusion, and progression and participates in collaborative arrangements with nearby trusts.

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