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We have an exciting opportunity for a Deputy Chief of Nursing/IPC Lead within the Monklands Replacement Project Team.
The role is strategic and operational, providing professional leadership, and influencing future service delivery in NHS Lanarkshire for identified sites. The post holder will have a professional lead for nursing/midwifery within their sites, ensuring standards of clinical practice, patient centred care and workforce development are in place to maximise the impact of nursing on service change and quality improvement. The post holder will act as a deputy to the Site Chief of Nursing services and will work closely with the Site Director and the Chief of Medical Services and their deputies in providing visible leadership at both a site and NHS Lanarkshire level. The post holder will contribute to the clinical, financial and staff governance arrangements ensuring safe, efficient and effective care, compatible with professional and national clinical standards. The post holder will contribute to the corporate management of the Directorate, and assists the Divisional Director in achieving the Executive Directorate's objectives.
The Monklands Replacement Project Team are responsible for bringing together the strategic delivery of services and will plan, procure and deliver a New Acute Hospital. The post holder will work with internal and external stakeholders in the delivery of changing services across NHS Lanarkshire. At the heart of this will be the delivery of new models of care supported by digital technology and innovation. They will be the Deputy Chief Nurse and Senior Infection Prevention and Control advisor on the project team.
The role will require to:
- Provide Infection Prevention Control Technical expertise to the development of the outline and full business cases.
- Provide Infection Prevention Control Technical expertise input into any aspects regarding water safety and ventilation
- Consider the impact of infection prevention control in project decisions and advise the project team and technical advisors as necessary.
- Infection control input is vital throughout the planning, design and building stages of a new hospital project, and must continue through the commissioning (and decommissioning) process, evaluation and putting the facility into full clinical service.
- Evaluate detailed layout drawings in consultation with the clinical, operational teams and service users, assess the impact of designs to ensure safe and efficient working practices.
- Inform design concepts with simulation and mock ups, testing work flow efficiency to understand new clinical models to provide improved service delivery.
Informal enquiries regarding the post will be welcomed by Fiona Cowan - MRP Clinical Lead in Nursing Fiona.Cowan@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk mobile number is: 07980780209.
If you have any queries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Jane Davies, Recruitment Administrator at jane.davies@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
‘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.
*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.
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