Associate Divisional Director for Nursing and AHPs

Associate Divisional Director for Nursing and AHPs (ADDN/P)

A 6 months secondment opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced senior nurse, allied health professional or healthcare scientist to join University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) as the Associate Divisional Director for Nursing and AHPs (ADDN/P) in Division

A. As a senior leader within Division A and the trust, you will work to assure the provision of safe, effective and evidence based care as part of the senior divisional, professional and clinical leadership team for all nurses and healthcare professions. If you have the passion, knowledge and experience to be a core member of our senior divisional management team, we would love to hear from you.

• Provision of professional and managerial leadership across the Division, focusing on Governance, Patient Safety, Safeguarding and Clinical Standards.
• Leading on developments and innovation in nursing and practice standards linking with local and national agencies
• Being a highly visible presence, ensuring the provision of high quality, evidence based, responsive service which holds the needs of the patient at the centre of care delivery.
• Accountability for the direct delivery of high quality nursing care and continual review of standards in clinical practice working within the financial framework
• Leading on developing clinical and practice standards using Clinical Governance frameworks, patient feedback and audit.
• Divisional lead for specific quality agendas
• Leading corporate projects as agreed by the DDN and CNO

You will be an inspiring and motivated nurse, AHP or HCS leader, who’s committed to the consistent delivery of high standards of compassionate care, with the ability to challenge and influence practice. You will have a proven track record putting safety, quality and patient experience at the heart of practice. You will have demonstrable experience of leading nursing and clinical services, with experience of leading initiatives across an organisation.

As a senior leader within the organisation you will also need to demonstrate the following skills:

• budget management
• formal and informal teaching
• staff and resource management
• project management and delivery

Applications are welcome from all nursing, allied health profession, and healthcare scientist backgrounds with a relevant registration. UHS offers fantastic training and development giving you the best possible opportunities to achieve the career you want. Development of our staff is central to the delivery of high quality, safe and effective care. We can offer opportunities to develop within a supportive environment, and our staff survey results reflect our commitment to facilitate your career progression.

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting. For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the ‘Job Description and Main Responsibilities’ section below.

To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached. Interviews will be held the Week beginning 23rd March.

Equality remains at the centre of our policy making, service delivery, and employment practice, giving all employees equal opportunity to develop, apply for promotions, and have working arrangements that enable them to achieve a manageable work-life balance. UHS actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for managers and staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development, and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status and age.

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