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The post holder will be responsible for decision making where practice or service delivery issues require speciality leadership ensuring a focus upon quality, safety and operational leadership.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the appointment of a highly experienced and credible senior nurse leader across York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
As Associate Chief Nurse for the Medicine Care Group, you will be responsible for providing strong and effective strategic and clinical leadership as part of a senior leadership team, working in collaboration with the Care Group Director, Associate Chief Operating Officer and Associate Chief Allied Health Professional. This is a key strategic and operational position within the Trust, responsible for the safe and effective operation of services across multiple hospital sites, including a multi-million pound newly built Urgent and Emergency Care Centre, due to open in November 2024 on the Scarborough site.
The Associate Chief Nurse role is both challenging and exciting and requires an individual who is capable of leading, inspiring and developing the nursing workforce to continuously drive-up standards of patient care and to ensure a patient centred approach that is safe and effective.
The post holder will support the professional development of nurses at all levels and will champion and embed a culture of quality improvement, effective clinical governance, and great patient experience.
The post holder will be responsible for decision making where practice or service delivery issues require speciality leadership ensuring a focus upon quality, safety and operational leadership. The post holder will work in collaboration with internal and external system partners to set out the Trusts strategic aims and deliver operational priorities. They will develop leadership and management capacity within nursing for their designated areas. This will be in line with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, resource controls and constraints, and will contribute to delivering the operational strategy for the Care Group and for the Trust as a whole.
If you are a Registered Nurse with substantial leadership experience and a drive to ensure patient care is at the forefront of all we do; and if you have a commitment to ensuring colleagues are supported and enabled to achieve the best outcomes for patients, we are keen to hear from you.
Our Benefits
We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:
- Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
- 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
- A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager at interview stage.
- A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
- Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
- NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
- An extensive range of learning and development opportunities Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers
For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dawn Parkes Job title: Chief Nurse Email address:
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for the appointment of a highly experienced and credible senior nurse leader across York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
As Associate Chief Nurse for the Medicine Care Group, you will be responsible for providing strong and effective strategic and clinical leadership as part of a senior leadership team, working in collaboration with the Care Group Director, Associate Chief Operating Officer and Associate Chief Allied Health Professional. This is a key strategic and operational position within the Trust, responsible for the safe and effective operation of services across multiple hospital sites, including a multi-million pound newly built Urgent and Emergency Care Centre, due to open in November 2024 on the Scarborough site.
The Associate Chief Nurse role is both challenging and exciting and requires an individual who is capable of leading, inspiring and developing the nursing workforce to continuously drive-up standards of patient care and to ensure a patient centred approach that is safe and effective.
The post holder will support the professional development of nurses at all levels and will champion and embed a culture of quality improvement, effective clinical governance, and great patient experience.
The post holder will be responsible for decision making where practice or service delivery issues require speciality leadership ensuring a focus upon quality, safety and operational leadership. The post holder will work in collaboration with internal and external system partners to set out the Trusts strategic aims and deliver operational priorities. They will develop leadership and management capacity within nursing for their designated areas. This will be in line with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, resource controls and constraints, and will contribute to delivering the operational strategy for the Care Group and for the Trust as a whole.
If you are a Registered Nurse with substantial leadership experience and a drive to ensure patient care is at the forefront of all we do; and if you have a commitment to ensuring colleagues are supported and enabled to achieve the best outcomes for patients, we are keen to hear from you.
Our Benefits
We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:
- Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
- 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
- A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager at interview stage.
- A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
- Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
- NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
- An extensive range of learning and development opportunities Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers
For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dawn Parkes Job title: Chief Nurse Email address:
Please Contact Through Sallie