UHN Head of Nursing - Place Based Medicine NGH
Job overview
Nursing is at the heart of everything we do, and our senior nursing leaders play a vital role in shaping the future of healthcare. We are looking for a compassionate, dynamic, and forward-thinking Head of Nursing – Medicine & Urgent Care to lead and inspire teams across our organisation.
This is an exciting opportunity to join UHN at a pivotal time as we transform our services to deliver the very best care to our communities. You will be a visible, strategic, and professional leader, working closely with multi-disciplinary teams, system partners, and colleagues to drive quality improvement, patient safety, and outstanding clinical outcomes across Medicine & Urgent Care.
The role requires expert nursing leadership across Medicine & Urgent Care, ensuring safe, high-quality, and compassionate care for all patients. You will lead and develop nursing teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning, shared decision-making, and professional excellence.Working collaboratively across the integrated care system (ICS), you will influence and shape service transformation to improve patient pathways and outcomes. As a senior leader, you will champion staff wellbeing, professional development, and innovative workforce models to create an inclusive and empowering environment for colleagues.
You will also be responsible for driving improvements in clinical governance, patient safety, and quality assurance, ensuring alignment with national standards and best practices.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an experienced nursing leader with a track record of delivering change, improving clinical services, and leading high-performing teams. You will be a strategic thinker, an advocate for patients and staff, and a role model for professional nursing practice.To be successful in this role, you will need NMC registration as a nurse, extensive leadership experience in acute medicine, urgent care, or a related specialty, a proven ability to lead large teams and drive quality and safety improvements, and excellent communication and influencing skills to work effectively across organisational and system-wide boundaries.
A strong commitment to our UHN values and our commitments to patients and colleagues is essential.
At UHN, we expect all patients to receive the same standard of care we would want our friends and family to have. We expect all colleagues to be treated with the same values we believe are important – compassion, respect and integrity.
This is an incredible opportunity to shape the future of Medicine & Urgent Care at UHN. If you are a passionate nursing leader looking to take the next step in your career and make a real impact, we want to hear from you
Working for our organisation
**Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications**
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values- Compassion
- Accountability
- Respect
- Integrity
- Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the role it can be found on the attached jd/ps and candidate pack for the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Nurse – with current NMC Registration and no restrictions on practise
- Master’s degree in Nursing, leadership or management or relevant subject or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
- Post-graduate qualification within a leadership programme/study or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level.
- Evidence of further study/education or courses demonstrating significant additional education, training or experience
- Evidence of continuing personal and professional development relevant to post.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of senior nursing management or professional leadership in a large and/or complex healthcare setting
- Extensive experience of senior professional leadership and operational management across a range of clinical specialities and care settings
- Demonstrable experience managing clinical services and of leading improvements in clinical settings, patient care and experience across multiple specialities
- Knowledge and experience of human resources management, communicating highly complex and contentious information to individuals and large groups
- Experience of managing budgets and financial resources, including the associated processes such as budget setting and financial planning
- Experience of actively leading service improvements across multiple areas
- Experience of workforce planning and recruitment and retention strategies – budget and resources
- Demonstrable evidence of highly specialist knowledge of the professional leadership and management of nurses
- In depth knowledge of the clinical governance agenda including clinical risk and safety. Up to date with current clinical nursing practice including own area of expertise, to enable deliver of direct patient care if/when required
- Demonstrates a clear understanding of and continuing acceptance of the need for financial governance and probity
- Familiarity with IT applications including e-Rostering
Skills
Essential criteria- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
- Ability to establish credibility and develop maintain effective working relationships at Executive and senior management levels
- Up to date with current clinical nursing practice including own area of expertise, to enable deliver of direct patient care if/when required
- Shares leadership with and is respected by clinical and non-clinical staff
- Can engage with and lead a team, and work as part of a team
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in clear concise manner
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent seeking advice as necessary
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- High level professional, people management skills and leadership qualities
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines
At Northampton General Hospital we provide general acute services and hyper-acute stroke, vascular and renal services to people living in Northamptonshire. As well as this we are an accredited cancer centre and provide cancer services to a wider population of Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire.
We are proud to be the first hospital in the UK to have obtained Pathway to Excellence® designated accreditation from the American nurses credentialing centre (ANCC).
We celebrate staff achievements and value the importance of working as one big team. That’s why we talk about Team NGH. It’s all about working together to provide the best possible care for our patients and supporting each other to grow and develop our skills.We are driven to helping you to be the best you can be.
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Apply today and join the largest family in Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values:
- Compassion
- Respect
- Integrity
- Courageous
- Accountable
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In submitting an application form, you authorise Northampton General Hospital to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record Inter Authority Transfer process should you be appointed to the post.
Due to the high number of applications received we are unable to respond to each application individually. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you have been unsuccessful in this application.
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Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust recognises that staff of differing backgrounds and life experiences enrich our workforce and bring different skills and knowledge. We therefore encourage and welcome applications for our vacancies from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
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