Job Advert
The Role
Are you a dynamic and passionate nursing leader ready to make a significant impact? NHS Lanarkshire is seeking an Acute Director of Nursing to bring energy, drive, and visionary leadership to our team. This is your chance to lead continuous improvement in clinical performance and patient care within our Acute Division.
Key Responsibilities:
- Champion Quality Clinical Care: Ensure the highest standards of clinical care for all inpatient and outpatient services.
- Strategic Workforce Planning: Lead workforce and workload planning to optimize our nursing resources.
- Drive Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of continuous improvement in clinical practice and enhance patient experiences.
- Ensure Patient Safety: Protect vulnerable adults and children, ensuring their safety and public protection.
- Lead Healthcare Inspections: Oversee Healthcare Environment Inspections and prevent healthcare-acquired infections.
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
What we'll need you to bring
- Educated to degree level with evidence of relevant postgraduate study
- Current registered nurse qualification with the NMC
- PGcert or PGdip as well as MSc
- Significant senior management experience in the NHS or another complex multidisciplinary public or private sector organisation
- A significant and demonstrable track record of success in the management of service improvement, in the delivery and monitoring of high quality standards of care, in the planning and delivery of successful organisational change and in proactive partnership working internal and external to the NHS
- A high level of performance in the leadership behaviours identified as crucial within NHS Scotland such as working in partnership, learning and development, caring for staff, improving performance through team working, communicating effectively, improving quality and achieving results
- Detailed understanding of clinical best practice and policy
- Experience of working and successfully contributing within a senior corporate team
- Demonstrable experience of managing in a large, complex health organisation during a period of major change
- Experienced in staff management/development and multi-disciplinary working at peer level
- Proven people and financial management capabilities
Contract type
Permanent
Full time
37 hours
Looking to find out more?
If you’re looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!
If you wish an informal discussion about the role, please get in touch with me or Mr Eddie Docherty, Executive Nurse Director, through either Fiona Beaton or Sharon Brophy, on 01698 752856 or 01698 752864, or alternatively by email at fiona.beaton@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk or Sharon.brophy@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Bradlay Lang, Recruitment Advisor on bradlay.lang2@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)
Why NHS Lanarkshire?
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.
Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:
A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
Occupational health services
Employee counselling services
Work-life Balance policies and procedures
NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.
Further Information
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.
Additional Information for Applicants
- Posts close at midnight on the indicated date
- For help to complete an application on Jobtrain please follow this link: https://www.careers.nhs.scot/how-to-apply/application-process/
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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.
Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.
Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.
NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.
We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.
Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.
From 1 April 2024, the working week for NHS Agenda for Change workers in Scotland will be reduced. Full-time hours will reduce from 37.5 to 37 hours (pro rata for part-time staff) without loss of earnings.
NHS Lanarkshire will implement this change but it may not be possible to fully transition from 1 April and there may therefore be some areas of the organisation where implementation may take longer. If the department is currently unable to safely accommodate the reduced hours from 1st April, you may be required to work 37.5 hours per week until the department can meet the requirements without impacting patient safety - you will, of course, be remunerated accordingly. NHS Lanarkshire is committed to full implementation of the 37 hour working week across all areas as soon as it is safe to do so.