Senior Nurse Clinical Site Management Critical Care Outreach

This is an exciting time to join our Site Operations team. In June of this year, we implemented and embedded a new electronic bed management system across our trust, and continue to improve our newly developed Command Centre. We are on a continuous journey of improvement using data and real-time situational awareness to enhance how we deliver care to our patients.

We are looking for a strong leader who is passionate about safety, patient care and improvement, with an emphasis of coaching and nurturing our staff.

The Senior Nurse's key responsibility is to monitor and develop patient pathways of care throughout the trust to improve patient flow, safety and quality of care. This will be achieved through managing the site based teams of Senior Clinical Managers, Critical Care Outreach Nurse Practitioners and bed managers with delegated responsibility from the Director of Site Operations.

Plays a leading role in the oversight of the trust's capacity management either through leading clinical shifts within the command centre or supporting the command centre with escalations and decision making. The command centre is currently based on the QEH site with the expectation it will operate from both sites.

The Senior Nurse's key responsibility is to manage and develop relevant services delivered through pathways and specialist services within the Trust, by managing the site-based teams of Senior Clinical Managers and Critical Care Outreach Nurse Practitioners with delegated responsibility from the Director of Site Operations.

Plays a leading role in the oversight of the trust's capacity management either through leading clinical shifts within the command centre or supporting the command centre with escalations and decision making. The command centre will be based on the QEH site which will require the postholder to work on both LGT sites.

Ensure standards of patient care and the patient experience are of the highest quality inspiring patient and public confidence. Specifically, this will include liaising within and across directorates to ensure the smooth flow of patients through the hospital and ensure all standards for the Clinical Site Managers and the Critical Care Outreach Nurse Practitioners are maintained.

The Senior Nurse is part of the directorate management team and will work collaboratively with other corporate and directorate staff in the planning,development, provision and review of excellent, patient focused care putting the interest of patients / service users at the heart of all managerial decisions.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Ensure standards of patient care and the patient experience are of the highest quality inspiring patient and public confidence. Specifically, this will include liaising within and across directorates to ensure the smooth flow of patients through the hospital and ensure all standards for the Clinical Site Managers, Critical Care Outreach Nurse Practitioners and bed managers are maintained.

The post holder will be an expert nurse practitioner with knowledge of managing the critically deteriorating patients. Also, a role model with competent/proficient leadership skills. He/she will be proficient and effective in managing rapidly changing situations with ease, has a sense of salience and intuitive judgement utilising specialist skills both clinically and managerially.

The post holder will ensure that all patients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect placing value on the diversity of the local community and beyond.

The post holder will lead and manage the Clinical Site Managers, and the Critical Care Outreach Nurse Practitioners. He/she will provide professional and managerial support to the Director of Site Operations.

The post holder will liaise closely with all directorates as well as all wards/departments throughout the Trust as necessary. He/she will liaise with the Divisional Heads of Nursing/Senior Matrons & Matrons, working autonomously on a day-to-day basis.

• A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to…