Head of Nursing Division of Thoracic Medicine and Ambulatory Care Job Vacancy in Hebburn, England, UK

Job summary

This role is part of a team with the Clinical Directorand Operational Director providing clinical and operational leadership to the ThoracicDivision. A key element of the role issetting the tone and modelling collective and compassionate leadershipbehaviours that build positive staff engagement and an inclusive culture to ensurethat our patients experience the best and the safest carewith us. Weare looking for a leader who can support teams across the Divisions to build their clinical capabilityand confidence. We are really interested, not just in your clinical excellence,but also your ability to be a visible, optimistic and compassionate leader whowill develop staff by understanding their needs and aspirations.

You do not needto be an expert in the field of Respiratory Medicine as you will be working aspart of a team of experts. You will play a key role in clinical governance andquality management so experience in these areas is important.

We also want tohear from you if you are as concerned about the lack of diversity at seniornursing levels within the NHS as we are. We believe that a greater combinationof difference in our teams will bring more openness, energy and discussion andwill make a real difference to the experience at work of our diverse staff. Canyou help us to make that change?

Main duties of the job

To promote fairness and diversity we are using a different way ofassessing all applications.

You will only be assessed on the answers to the questions below. Youranswers must be provided in the supporting statement section of the form. The biographical information you provide willbe checked to ensure compliance with the minimum educational and safeemployment requirements. Show us through experience/examples from yourprofessional and/or personal life how you:

Using learning from an experience,how would you ensure the voices of all staff are heard to inform the vision ofthe Thoracic and ambulatory care directorate?

What experiences can you bringto the role that enable you to be assured that clinical and professionalstandards are maintained?

Give example of a qualityimprovement initiative you have delivered. What was the individual learning foryou? Has it changed your practise?

How have research andinnovation influenced your practise? How would you inspire the nursingworkforce in the Division to engage with this? Give at least one example

What do you understand to beunconscious bias? Reflecting on your experiences what checks and balances doyou have to recognise signs in you and others?

How will you help usto diversify the nursing leadership, to improve the employment journey forstaff with protected characteristics?

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHSFoundation Trust is the UK’s leading heart and lung hospital, delivering careto more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital inCambridge.

We perform the most heartand/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK’s first successfulheart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment,sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those insevere respiratory failure. Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus thelargest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust isat the heart of treatments of the future.

Royal Papworth became the firsthospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areasassessed by the Care Quality Commission – a rating it still holds today.

The Trust holds its valuesof compassion, excellence and collaboration atits core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these intheir day-to-day roles and interactions.

Royal Papworth is proud of itsdiverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality. TheTrust values difference and welcomes allapplications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage andcivil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex andsexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicantswith disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour