Associate Director of Nursing: Emergency Care and Trauma

Associate Director of Nursing for the Division of Emergency Care and Trauma at the Royal London and Mile End Hospitals, part of Barts Health NHS Trust. The post holder leads nursing and quality across the division, balancing strategic plans with clinical needs and efficiency gains. It sits on the site Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Board, working with the Divisional Director and Director of Nursing on professional standards.

Candidates need a senior nursing background in an acute setting and a management qualification.

• Provide strategic leadership at divisional level, and hospital or trust-wide where required
• Ensure high-quality patient services within the division that are clinically sound and cost effective
• Put in place governance, systems and processes that enable good quality clinical care
• Drive the service and quality improvement agenda to achieve efficiency gains and clinical effectiveness
• Assure professional standards and practice across nursing and AHP practice, including adherence to statutory regulations
• Balance strategic plans with clinical and nursing needs
• Meet the Trust's priorities, performance and quality standards
• Work with the Divisional Director and Director of Nursing on trust-wide objectives and evidence-based standards

• Postgraduate education in specialty field, with evidence of ongoing relevant postgraduate study
• Masters (MSc) in a relevant healthcare subject
• Management qualification
• Teaching or mentoring qualification

• First level registered nurse or midwife

• Significant experience in a senior nursing role
• Managerial and operational experience in an acute setting, including manager on call
• Significant experience managing a budget and budget holders, and managing other professional groups
• Supervising staff and students, including HR issues, and teaching undergraduates and postgraduates
• Significant audit, change and quality improvement experience, including transformational change to evaluate and develop services
• Close multi-professional working in an in-patient environment

• Strong leadership, excellent communication and presentation skills, and ability to influence multi-professional working
• Working across clinical, HR, quality improvement and finance
• Initiating, implementing and sustaining change, including setting up or changing services
• Risk assessment, audit, investigation and problem-solving skills, and implementing evidence-based practice
• Good computer skills, including data manipulation and spreadsheets

• Coaching and mentoring qualification
• PGCE
• Experience of managing other professional groups
• Experience of SLAs and contractual working
• Experience with in the specialism of the division
• Experience of setting up a new service or changing a service