Director of Nursing for Networked Care in Reading inReading PUBLISHED WED 11 JUN 2025 Jump to job information section
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust r2u5cUUX
Job description
Care Group Director of Nursing
The purpose of this role is to provide senior strategic nursing leadership in order to ensure and consistently develop a high-quality, cost-effective nursing service for patients. The post holder will support the Executive Director of Nursing in leading the development of the nursing agenda within the Trust. Together with the Care Group Director, the Care Group Director of Operations and the Care Group Director of Finance, the post holder will be responsible for the delivery of operational, financial and quality performance of the services and the strategic objectives of the Care Group.
The Care Group Director of Nursing (CG DoN) will work collaboratively with the Care Group Director to provide assurance to the Executive Team and the Trust Board that robust processes and systems of governance and risk management are in place and that safe and high-quality patient-focused services are delivered.
The CG DoN will support the Chief Nurse in the implementation of the corporate nursing agenda, taking a specific strategic and operational lead for the allocated corporate component of the role (Complaints, Patient Experience and Safeguarding). They will participate in the on-call managers' rota.
Working closely with other professional leaders, the post holder will be required to ensure professional leadership is in place. They will provide expertise and advice on professional, operational and strategic issues within the Trust and across the health economy.
The CG DoN will ensure that the fundamentals of care are delivered effectively within the Care Group its services and departments and that competence in clinical practice is both developed and maintained in order to maximise the patient experience, safety and quality of service.
The CG DoN will ensure the Care Group has an appropriately skilled and qualified nursing and allied health professional workforce, deployed in the most efficient and cost-effective way to deliver high quality care to our patients and clients.
The CG DoN will be accountable for developing the Care Group nursing workforce, including innovation and developments in practice, creating the right environment to retain and develop talent.
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