Director of Nursing
Enjoy a supportive team environment, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional development. Apply now to make a difference in our community!
Flexible Working Options: We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer a range of flexible working options, including part-time and job share. We encourage applicants to discuss their preferred working patterns during the interview process.
Hybrid Working: This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, allowing you to split your time between our ICB offices and home. We aim to provide a supportive and adaptable working environment that meets the needs of our staff, service delivery and the patients within our Region.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and pension scheme
- Opportunities for professional development and training
- Supportive team environment
- Enhanced work-life balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Employee Benefits – Salary Sacrifice Schemes such as Lease Cars, Home Electronics, Cycle to Work
Job overview
We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Director of Nursing to join our Nursing and quality team. At North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we are committed to providing high-quality care and support to our community.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
Do you have energy, experience, and passion for patient care? Do you want to come to work to make a difference? Are you driven by a values-based approach? Whatever your nursing background is we want to hear from you.
Job Role: We are seeking a highly motivated, values driven professional with excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
Working for our organisation
Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.
The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.
With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas.These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.
The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a professional leader you will provide strategic and operational support and be responsible for assuring high quality patient focussed care, ensuring robust risk management and governance.
The successful candidate will be part of the ICB Nursing and Quality team and will be responsible for the leading and assuring on patient centred, safe and effective care in partnership with our partners, providers, primary care and independent sector.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Evidence of sustained personal & professional development
- Registered nurse with post registration qualification.
- Current NMC Registration
- Masters level qualification or equivalent experience
- Substantial experience in a very senior nursing position with a demonstrable track record of success in a large and complex NHS organisation
- Experience in dealingwith the complex field of litigation, regulation & improvement
- Knowledge and substantial experience of leading the nursing agenda within an NHS organisation
- Knowledge and experience of leading organisational clinical quality, clinical governance & risk management agendas
- Experience in the management of complex projects
- Experience of effective partnership and working with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of implementing governance frameworks
- Knowledge and experience of staff management
- Knowledge and experience of financial management
- Experience at a very senior level within provider, commissioning and oversight and assurance / regulatory organisations
- Significant experience of strategic leadership across and within organisations
- Demonstrable experience of Implementing and leading nursing and quality professional leadership across systems
The use of Artificial Intelligence: Whilst the ICB are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
UKVI Sponsorship: Please note that North East and North Cumbria ICB do not hold a UKVI sponsorship license. Therefore, we are unable to proceed with applications that require sponsorship.
Reasonable Adjustments: If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Fit & Proper Person Regulations: Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.