Wigan and Bolton Head of Nursing and Quality inWigan and Bolton inWigan and Bolton PUBLISHED WED 20 NOV 2024

The postholder will be a collaborative, inclusive and compassionate leader with values and behaviours that inspire understanding and trust, build inclusion and reduce inequalities.

In conjunction with the Associate Director of Nursing and Quality will contribute to creating a positive safety culture, where the environment is collaboratively crafted, created, and nurtured so that everybody (individual staff, teams, patients, service users, families, and carers) can flourish to ensure brilliant, safe care by:

1. Continuous learning and improvement of safety risks

2. Supportive, psychologically safe teamwork

3. Enabling and empowering speaking up by all

The post holder, working in collaboration with the Clinical and Operational Lead and will be responsible for the delivery of a robust quality governance framework within a defined care group, as part of the collective leadership team supporting the delivery of effective, safe and high-quality care delivery to service users and their families. The post holder will be responsible for coordinating all quality governance activity including the development of quality improvement plan, policies, risk management strategies, training and audit activity.

Main duties of the job

The postholders will contribute to the strategic direction for high quality services, setting and upholding professional standards for nursing and other professional practice within Bolton and Wigan Services. This will include the development and delivery of key actions within the Trust Nursing Strategy and other relevant clinical strategies.

Through highly visible leadership the post-holders will undertake a range of duties and responsibilities that supports professional staff to deliver safe and high-quality evidence-based practice across the Trust.

The post holder will have direct responsibility for the supervision of the Quality roles within the Care Group offering and deputise in the absence of the Associate Director of Nursing and Quality.

The post will provide day to day leadership for maintaining IPC standards and high standards of professional practice via liaison with the IPC Lead Nurses, the Physical Healthcare Lead for the Trust as well as the Medicines Management Lead and the Professional Standards Lead Nurse.

The post-holder will provide nursing leadership and professional standards support across the integrated healthcare agenda, ensuring Professional Practice Standards are upheld across the Care Group and wider Organisation.

About us

Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements:

Band

Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any week day after 8pm and before 6am

All time on Sundays and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight)

1

Time plus 47%

Time plus 94%

2

Time plus 41%

Time plus 83%

3

Time plus 35%

Time plus 69%

4 9

Time plus 30%

Time plus 60%

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts
• fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)