Total 10 Director/C-Level job vacancies in Blackpool, fy1

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a Director of Learning for Science with a proven track record of success in improving standards and raising pupil outcomes. We want to hear from talented middle leaders looking to extend their experience, and outstanding, ambitious teachers seeking their first middle leadership post.

As an experienced teacher, you will develop an exciting curriculum that suits every type of learner and have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of our young people. The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and motivational skills.

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to lead a successful faculty drawing on your extensive teaching and leadership experience. As a Star middle leader, you’ll join the Star Academies family, a high-performing and supportive network of primary and secondary schools with some of the best leaders in education.

You will have:

• A degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
• The ability to teach to GCSE standard.
• The ability to coach and motivate colleagues to achieve individual and collective targets.
• Experience of sustained delivery of outstanding attainment and achievement.
• Experience of innovation and creativity to engage, enthuse and progress learners.

What the school offers its staff

About Highfield Leadership Academy

Highfield Leadership Academy is a state-of-the-art secondary school for 11 to 16 year olds in Blackpool. We joined Star Academies in 2016 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.

We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

What skills and experience we're looking for

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a Director of Learning: English with a proven track record of success in improving standards and raising pupil outcomes. We want to hear from talented middle leaders looking to extend their experience, and outstanding, ambitious teachers seeking their first middle leadership post.

As an experienced teacher, you will develop an exciting curriculum that suits every type of learner and have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of our young people. The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and motivational skills.

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to lead a successful faculty drawing on your extensive teaching and leadership experience. As a Star middle leader, you’ll join the Star Academies family, a high-performing and supportive network of primary and secondary schools with some of the best leaders in education.

You will have:

• A degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
• The ability to teach to GCSE standard.
• The ability to coach and motivate colleagues to achieve individual and collective targets.
• Experience of sustained delivery of outstanding attainment and achievement.
• Experience of innovation and creativity to engage, enthuse and progress learners.

What the school offers its staff

​​​​​​​About Star Academies

Star Academies is a high-performing multi-academy trust that runs more than 30 primary and secondary schools. We are a values-based organisation that works to improve the life chances of young people in areas of social and economic deprivation to help them succeed at the highest levels of education, employment and the professions. Every single day you’ll be rewarded with the opportunity to shape a young person’s future - our STAR values embody what we believe is needed to succeed.

Professional development is key to our ongoing success, so we continually invest in our employees through our learning and development centre, Star Institute. With a wealth of training, mentoring and progression opportunities across a growing group of academies, joining our team of leading education experts could propel your career to the next level.

We can also offer you a range of rewards and benefits, including competitive salaries and pension schemes, generous holiday entitlements and healthcare cash plans.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Pay up to £36,545 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. 

DWP. Digital with Purpose. 

We are looking for a Director's Support Manager to join a busy and complex area of DWP Digital and support our Senior Leadership Team as we deliver a massive transformation of public services.  

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support some of the most vulnerable people in our society.  

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us. 

Diaries. Workflow. Prioritisation.

We have an opportunity for someone with excellent organisational skills and communication skills to join our team as Director's Support Manager. You'll be working with our Head of Application Platforms.

In this role, you are the conduit between the Deputy Director and several senior stakeholders, building relationships by supporting them and keeping them up to date.

You'll quickly develop a good understanding of what we do here, and the strategic priorities across Digital Group.

You'll use that insight to plan and prioritise, and to manage the director's workflow, anticipating any issues before they arise.

You'll have responsibility for diary management as well as inbox management, ensuring that all enquiries and requests are answered in a timely and accurate manner.

Experience as secretariat for meetings, taking notes and actions right through to completion, will also be useful as you cover our Senior Leadership Team meetings. 

What skills and experience do you need? Show us that you have these skills in your application… 

• Experience of providing support services to senior leaders including anticipating issues before they arise and responding to unplanned challenges (ideally within a large digital organisation).
  

• Experience of building effective relationships including the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

• Experience of managing conflicting demands and priorities whilst working in a high profile, fast paced environment, ensuring tasks are prioritised in line with strategic objectives.  
  

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to use varying methods of communication and evidence of summarising key messages and recording and tracking information. 

• Familiar with Agile ways of working and associated IT and collaboration skills required for this role, eg - Office365, Microsoft Word, Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, Loop.
  
  

Details. Wages. Perks. 

Location: You'll join us in our brilliant Digital hub in Blackpool. There is lots of free on site parking and we're accessible from across the North West.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model with a mix of home working and sometime in the office. Your office days will coincide with the Director's diary where possible.

Travel: There will be a requirement to travel to our Manchester office on a quarterly basis, to support the Senior Leadership Team in onsite meetings.

Pay: In return for your skills, we offer a competitive salary of £35,711 to 36,545.

Pension: You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to over £10,500 a year.

Holidays: You'll get a generous leave package starting at 24 days, rising to 26 days after one year, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave. 

Our broad benefits package is built around your work-life balance and includes: 

• Flexible working and family friendly policies 

• I can be me in DWP. Bring your authentic self to work. 

• Work for a 'Best Place to Work in Digital Award' nominee 

• Volunteering and charitable giving 

• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more 

• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket 

• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. 

 

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application. 

The Chief Executive holds overall responsibility for the leadership and management of the Foundation Trust. As Accountable Officer, the post holder is accountable for the delivery of safe and high-quality services by the Foundation Trust and ensuring achievement of its performance targets, financial obligations and statutory duties. The Chief Executive is also responsible for the strategic direction, leadership culture and people development within the organisation. The Chief Executive also plays an important leadership role in the wider health and care community across Fylde coast, as we work increasingly closely together as part of the Fylde Coast Executive with the aim of delivering whole-system reform centred around integrated care. The Chief Executive represents the Foundation Trust in a variety of regional and national forums. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Strategic Management To take overall executive responsibility for the delivery of safe, high quality services to ensure the best care and experience for patients in an appropriate environment. To ensure that the Foundation Trust meets its statutory duties and responsibilities and to ensure that its functions are carried out in a way that demonstrates financial viability and proper stewardship of public money and assets to Parliament. To drive a culture of staff engagement and continuous improvement, drawing on international best practice. To ensure that patient services and all dealings with staff and stakeholders are developed and conducted with equality and inclusion at the fore. To take account of all national policy developments affecting the service delivery of the Foundation Trust. Lead and deliver transformational projects for culture, service redesign and quality improvement, estates and IT and ensure the Trust delivers the Workforce and Quality strategies. With other members of the Fylde Coast Executive, to ensure effective collaboration and integration and to support the development of an Integrated Care System. Vision and Leadership To lead and develop the Executive Team to enable them to deliver the strategic priorities of the Foundation Trust. To act as a champion for inclusion and diversity, both as an employer and a provider of services, ensuring that effective policies and procedures are in place and actively promoted. Working with the Chair, to ensure that the Board of Directors effectively leads and drives the development of strategies and policies which will result in the achievement of high quality, integrated care pathways, consistent with local commissioner and national policy, standards and targets requirements. To review and evaluate the external environment for present and future strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and to use this analysis to inform the production of the Foundation Trusts annual plan; ensuring that the plan is designed to achieve the Foundation Trusts vision and strategy and optimises the use of the workforce and available financial resources. To promote a culture that encourages the use of initiative, individual and team responsibility and open communications, ensuring that an appropriate leadership and management structure is in place to facilitate ward-to-board visibility of successes, emerging risks and performance concerns. To promote a culture that demonstrates visibility to staff from amongst the Executive Team in all areas of the Trust. To maintain effective relationships with colleagues, staff and external partners to support the delivery of the Foundation Trusts strategic objectives. To maintain and develop effective relationships with external stakeholders and with local and wider professional communities. To contribute to the development of a positive public image of the Foundation Trust by communicating the Trusts strategy, plans, successes and constraints. To promote the work of the Freedom to Speak Up Guardian and Guardian of Safe Working so that staff are confident to raise any concerns. Partnerships To work collaboratively with other Fylde Coast Executive members to develop an Integrated Care System and enable partner organisations to fulfil their statutory duties. To work collectively across Lancashire, the North West region and nationally where appropriate for the benefit of the Foundation Trust and its patients and communities. To lead the Foundation Trust in the development of effective partnership working with patients, service users and carer, clinicians, NHS Improvement, commissioners, local authorities, not-for-profit, advocacy and voluntary organisations. To foster and develop strong multi-agency and multi-disciplinary team working arrangements between professions and across agencies. To promote and maintain good working relationships with the recognised trade unions, professional bodies and staff representatives. Corporate Governance With the Chair, to continue the development of good working relationships between all members of the Board of Directors, ensuring a unitary board approach to governance. With the Chair, to ensure the continuation of good working relationships between the Board of Directors and the Council of Governors, ensuring an effective flow of information between the two groups and facilitating the effective discharge of the statutory duties of the respective bodies. In conjunction with the Chair, to monitor the effective operation of the Board of Directors to ensure that the Foundation Trust meets its corporate and clinical governance requirements, its regulatory requirements and all applicable statutory duties. To ensure that the Foundation Trusts annual report and accounts (including the Quality Account) is submitted to NHS Improvement and laid before Parliament in advance of the stipulated deadlines and that the Foundation Trust holds an Annual Members Meeting in accordance with its constitution each year. To understand, assess and manage strategic, reputational and operational risk, taking mitigating actions as appropriate to reduce risk. To ensure the highest standards of conduct and probity are achieved. To ensure that the Foundation Trust is clear about risk appetite and that it is managing its resources and activities accordingly. To ensure that health and safety policies and procedures reflect current best practice and are discharged effectively by all staff. Data Quality and Information Governance To be aware of the effectiveness of information risk management across the Trust and to lead on information governance and risk assessment management within own areas of responsibility. Understand how the strategic business goals of the Trust and how other NHS organisations business goals may be impacted by information risks, and how those risks may be managed. General To contribute actively to the debates and discussions of the Board of Directors, ensuring the provision of appropriate and timely information. To work collectively with other directors to model cabinet behaviour and ensure alignment of priorities and delivery of key performance objectives. To use any specialist knowledge and understanding of healthcare generally to assist colleagues and the Board to consider strategic issues and appropriate decisions. To adhere to the standards laid down in current guidance for NHS senior managers and at all times acting in a manner that reflects and promotes the views of the Foundation Trust. To participate in the executive on-call rota. This post is subject to the provisions of the NHS Code of Conduct and Duty of Candour.

We are now seeking to appoint a Chief Executive to help us to continue our improvement journey. We are proud of our recent track record in this regard, however, there is still much to do and we recognise the opportunities and ongoing challenges facing our Trust and wider health and care partners.

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on the health and well-being of our communities. As our Chief Executive, you will be at the forefront of transforming health and care services, driving forward an ambitious agenda for integrated care. You will be supported by dedicated and talented teams, committed to achieving our shared vision of outstanding healthcare for all.

We are not underestimating the challenges facing today’s health system but believe there are the foundations here in Blackpool to deliver truly excellent, integrated services that can make a major impact on the lives of the people we serve. If you have the compassion, skills and track record to succeed in this exciting and complex role and help us achieve this ambition

As our Chief Executive, you will play a critical role in shaping and delivering the strategic direction of the Trust. You will provide visionary leadership, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, integrated health and care services. Your ability to foster strong relationships with stakeholders, including patients, staff, and partner organisations, will be key to our success. You will need outstanding communication, networking and engagement skills, with a dynamic, patient-centred approach that promotes a culture that places safety, quality and outcomes at the heart of everything we do. An inclusive leader, you will lead our Executive Team, whilst playing a critical role in representing the Trust within the Lancashire and South Cumbria ‘system’.

This job is tough and high-profile, needing someone with top-notch skills, relevant experience, and a passion for quality. We're looking for a strong, inspiring leader who understands the political landscape and is committed to delivering exceptional, innovative public services. You should be able to build great relationships within our organisation and with external partners in a complex setting. You must have a proven track record of driving change and be dedicated to continuous improvement, always keeping patient experience at the forefront.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an organisation of scale and complexity with a workforce of over 7,500 dedicated colleagues. As a large, integrated provider of acute and community services to the 445,000 population of the Fylde Coast health economy, and the estimated 11 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool, our organisation’s success is pivotal to the health outcomes of a complex and diverse population. With patients and families at the heart of all we do, we are committed to creating a culture that empowers our staff and inspires us all to deliver first class clinical care and models of care that are sustainable. We form a central part of the Healthier Fylde Coast Integrated Care Partnership and our progressive approach to partnership working in the area provides an enviable opportunity to redesign and deliver services that meet the challenges of today’s health system.

The Chief Executive holds overall responsibility for the leadership and management of the Foundation Trust. As Accountable Officer, the post holder is accountable for the delivery of safe and high-quality services by the Foundation Trust and ensuring achievement of its performance targets, financial obligations and statutory duties. The Chief Executive is also responsible for the strategic direction, leadership culture and people development within the organisation.

The Chief Executive also plays an important leadership role in the wider health and care community across Fylde coast, as we work increasingly closely together as part of the Fylde Coast Executive with the aim of delivering whole-system reform centred around integrated care.

The Chief Executive represents the Foundation Trust in a variety of regional and national forums.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategic Management

· To take overall executive responsibility for the delivery of safe, high quality services to ensure the best care and experience for patients in an appropriate environment.
• To ensure that the Foundation Trust meets its statutory duties and responsibilities and to ensure that its functions are carried out in a way that demonstrates financial viability and proper stewardship of public money and assets to Parliament.
• To drive a culture of staff engagement and continuous improvement, drawing on international best practice.
• To ensure that patient services and all dealings with staff and stakeholders are developed and conducted with equality and inclusion at the fore.
• To take account of allnational policy developments affecting the service delivery of the Foundation Trust.
• Lead and deliver transformational projects for culture, service redesign and quality improvement, estates and IT and ensure the Trust delivers the Workforce and Quality strategies.
• With other members of the Fylde Coast Executive, to ensure effective collaboration and integration and to support the development of an Integrated Care System.



Vision and Leadership
• To lead and develop the Executive Team to enable them to deliver the strategic priorities of the Foundation Trust.
• To act as a champion for inclusion and diversity, both as an employer and a provider of services, ensuring that effective policies and procedures are in place and actively promoted.
• Working with the Chair, to ensure that the Board of Directors effectively leads and drives the development of strategies and policies which will result in the achievement of high quality, integrated care pathways, consistent with local commissioner and national policy, standards and targets requirements.
• To review and evaluate the external environment for present and future strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and to use this analysis to inform the production of the Foundation Trust’s annual plan; ensuring that the plan is designed to achieve the Foundation Trust’s vision and strategy and optimises the use of the workforce and available financial resources.
• To promote a culture that encourages the use of initiative, individual and team responsibility and open communications, ensuring that an appropriate leadership and management structure is in place to facilitate ward-to-board visibility of successes, emerging risks and performance concerns.
• To promote a culture that demonstrates visibility to staff from amongst the Executive Team in all areas of the Trust.
• To maintain effective relationships with colleagues, staff and external partners to support the delivery of the Foundation Trust’s strategic objectives.
• To maintain and develop effective relationships with external stakeholders and with local and wider professional communities.
• To contribute to the development of a positive public image of the Foundation Trust by communicating the Trust’s strategy, plans, successes and constraints.
• To promote the work of the Freedom to Speak Up Guardian and Guardian of Safe Working so that staff are confident to raise any concerns.

Partnerships


• To work collaboratively with other Fylde Coast Executive members to develop an Integrated Care System and enable partner organisations to fulfil their statutory duties.
• To work collectively across Lancashire, the North West region and nationally where appropriate for the benefit of the Foundation Trust and its patients and communities.
• To lead the Foundation Trust in the development of effective partnership working with patients, service users and carer, clinicians, NHS Improvement, commissioners, local authorities, not-for-profit, advocacy and voluntary organisations.
• To foster and develop strong multi-agency and multi-disciplinary team working arrangements between professions and across agencies.
• To promote and maintain good working relationships with the recognised trade unions, professional bodies and staff representatives.

Corporate Governance
• With the Chair, to continue the development of good working relationships between all members of the Board of Directors, ensuring a unitary board approach to governance.
• With the Chair, to ensure the continuation of good working relationships between the Board of Directors and the Council of Governors, ensuring an effective flow of information between the two groups and facilitating the effective discharge of the statutory duties of the respective bodies.
• In conjunction with the Chair, to monitor the effective operation of the Board of Directors to ensure that the Foundation Trust meets its corporate and clinical governance requirements, its regulatory requirements and all applicable statutory duties.
• To ensure that the Foundation Trust’s annual report and accounts (including the Quality Account) is submitted to NHS Improvement and laid before Parliament in advance of the stipulated deadlines and that the Foundation Trust holds an Annual Members’ Meeting in accordance with its constitution each year.
• Tounderstand, assess and manage strategic, reputational and operational risk, taking mitigating actions as appropriate to reduce risk.
• To ensure the highest standards of conduct and probity are achieved.
• To ensure that the Foundation Trust is clear about risk appetite and that it is managing its resources and activities accordingly.
• To ensure that health and safety policies and procedures reflect current best practice and are discharged effectively by all staff.

Data Quality and Information Governance


• To be aware of the effectiveness of information risk management across the Trust and to lead on information governance and risk assessment management within own areas of responsibility.
• Understand how the strategic business goals of the Trust and how other NHS organisations’ business goals may be impacted by information risks, and how those risks may be managed.

General
• To contribute actively to the debates and discussions of the Board of Directors, ensuring the provision of appropriate and timely information.
• To work collectively with other directors to model cabinet behaviour and ensure alignment of priorities and delivery of key performance objectives.
• To use any specialist knowledge and understanding of healthcare generally to assist colleagues and the Board to consider strategic issues and appropriate decisions.
• To adhere to the standards laid down in current guidance for NHS senior managers and at alltimes acting in a manner that reflects and promotes the views of the Foundation Trust.
• To participate in the executive on-call rota.
• This post is subject to the provisions of the NHS Code of Conduct and Duty of Candour.


This advert closes on Monday 12 Aug 2024

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To arrange an informal discussion Mr Chris Barben, Executive Medical Director, please contact Andrea Cobb on (01253)953722. Closing date: 23rd July 2024 Interviews: 20th August 2024

Leadership To effectively manage the corporate nursing teams, people, regulatory activities and other resources of designated portfolio services to ensure high quality and efficient services that provide value for money within appropriate resources. Strategic and operational nursing and clinical service planning for BTH; PLACE and ICS including development and delivery of ICS/Trust Clinical Strategy; Quality and Patient Experience Strategies; ensuring alignment with national strategy. System wide nursing professional advice and leadership; aligning this to national strategy and professional regulation. Workforce and system design for service integration. Strategic nurse workforce and service development planning and investment, with Professional Trust wide regulatory oversight, financial control,governance and assurance. Share in the responsibility for the achievement of excellent communications with clinical and governance staff and with operational/HR/OD and finance colleagues to ensure that improvement and delivery plans are inclusive, with shared ownership. Provide expert advice and support to the Executive Directors and to all those carrying management responsibilities within the Trust. Oversee the Corporate Nursing Directorate on a day to day basis for the Executive Chief Nurse. Oversee the delivery of the monthly nursing quality objectives and annual quality account to the highest professional standards. Represent the Executive Director of Nursing internally and externally in relation to nursing and corporate responsibilities, developing partnerships, sharing best practice and developing wider opportunities for developing clinical teams. Ensure the shared organizational vision, strategic aims, values and culture of the Trust are actively promoted, provide clear leadership and demonstrate this through being a role-model. To deliver on specific corporate programmes of improvement for Nursing and Midwifery. Lead the implementation and monitoring of key nursing and quality strategies, ensuring that the Trusts approach is in line with National Guidance and best practice. Providing support to the Divisional Directors of Nursing, Lead Allied Health Professional, Associate Directors of Nursing and Quality and The Director of Midwifery in the provision of high quality care to our patients. Provide expert professional advice and direction regarding clinical standards, appropriate treatment and statutory duties regarding clinical care. Advise and contribute to the development of new models of care delivery which lead to improved outcomes for patients and delivery of the Trust QEP programme. Will be the senior manager and budget holder for multiple departments and line manage key posts in the corporate nursing and clinical governance teams. Promote the vision, values and goals of the organisation in particular acting as a professional role model. To maintain effective relationships with colleagues, staff and external partners to support the delivery of the Trusts strategic objectives. To work with the Executive Director of Nursing and Medical Director in overseeing the delivery of the Trusts Quality Strategy and support systems in order to continually improve quality, safety and patient experience. To participate in the Trust Duty Director on call rota. Clinical Governance To lead on the reduction of clinical risk and avoidable harm to patients through the maintenance of robust risk management, complaint resolution and untoward incident investigation ensuring that the Trust disseminates and learns lessons from experience. Provide assurance and reports on the Trusts clinical governance performance to the relevant Trust committees. To work collaboratively with the Deputy Director of Quality Governance on the development and application of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements that ensure full compliance with internal and external governance requirements. To monitor and manage clinical risk, supporting the production of risk assessments within Trust Departments and adherence to the Trust Risk Management framework. Advise/Appraise the Executive Director of Nursing and Executive Medical Director on changes in national policy/legislation in relation to the Clinical Governance agenda. Work closely with the Deputy Director for Quality Governaance in leading and co-ordinating investigations into serious incidents/adverse events, complaints and claims ensuring analysis of themes and lessons learned. Work closely with the Executive Team, Divisional management teams and Quality Managers in the implementation of clinical governance, assurance and safety across the organisation. To work with the Executive Director of Nursing and Medical Director to ensure that clinical governance is embedded within the everyday practice of all clinical professionals. Ensure standards are being met and maintained against the NHSLA risk management standards and CNST standards. Take the lead in ensuring the maintenance and monitoring of CQC outcomes. Manage the development implementation and evaluation of the ward/community to board performance framework ensuring continuous benchmarking and performance management of the outcomes, implementation of remedial recovery plans or sharing of best practice across the nursing and midwifery disciplines. Working with Divisional Directors of Nursing/Director of Midwifery, develop and review workforce plans for nursing and midwifery, providing advice on issues of skills mix, deployment and utilisation of the nursing workforce. Education To lead the Trust approach to Nursing and Midwifery education and practice, working with the Divisional Directors of Nursing/Director of Midwifery/Allied Health Professional Lead who are responsible for the delivery across the Divisions for this agenda. To be the Trust Pre-reg and Post-reg Education lead and work in partnership with liaising with relevant Universities and Higher Education Institutions. Ensure that the Trust meets its responsibilities to provide clinical experience, and mentor support for pre and post registration nurse education in line with local and national requirements. To support the delivery of continuous development for Nurses and Midwives. To be the senior nurse lead on the development of the Patient Environment including PLACE and Privacy and Dignity agenda, working closely with the Infection Prevention Team and Estates/Facilities management departments. Direct line management Executive Director of Nursing Performance Review Objectives for the post will be the subject of overall agreement and regular review between the post holder and the Executive Director of Nursing. Summary This Job Profile is an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities of the Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality and is not intended as an exhaustive list. The job may change over time to reflect the changing needs of the Trust and its services, as well as the personal development needs of the post holder. A review of Director portfolios is currently underway meaning that the portfolio for this role may be expanded further. Health, Safety and Security All employees have a duty to report any accidents, complaints, defects in equipment, near misses and untoward incidents, following Trust procedure. To ensure that Health and Safety legislation is complied with at all times, including COSHH, Workplace Risk Assessment and Control of Infection. Confidentiality Working within the trust you may gain knowledge of confidential matters which may include personal and medical information about patients and staff. Such information must be considered strictly confidential and must not be discussed or disclosed. Failure to observe this confidentiality could lead to disciplinary action being taken against you. Codes of Conduct and Accountability You are expected to comply with relevant Trust codes of conduct and accountability. Infection Prevention and Control You must comply with all relevant policies, procedures and training on infection prevention and control. Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults You must comply with all relevant policies, procedures and training on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. Valuing Diversity and Promoting Equality You must comply with all relevant policies, procedures and training on valuing diversity and promoting equality. Training Managers are required to take responsibility for their own and their staffs development. All employees have a duty to attend all mandatory training sessions as required by the Trust. NHS Code of Conduct for Managers The NHS Code of Conduct for NHS Managers outlines the central standards of conduct expected of NHS Managers and seeks to guide them in the work they do and, in their decision, making. The Code is also intended to assure the public of the high professional standards and accountability within NHS Management The Code applies to all Chief Executives and Directors in the NHS and also to other Senior Manager positions with a similar responsibility and accountability. The Code applies to this post and the post holder will be required to abide by its terms. General Any other general requirements as appropriate to the post and location The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give a broad flavour of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the postholder.

The job description, person specification and job advert are all included as separate documents within this folder.

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a substantive Deputy Director of Nursing & Quality post within the Fylde Coast Network. The Deputy Director of Nursing supports the delivery of high quality care and professional practice within the Fylde Coast Network.

Working with the Director of Nursing & Quality, the role focusses on supporting the delivery of the Nursing and Quality objectives within key areas including Clinical and Professional Practice, Clinical Governance, Risk, Performance and Improvement. The successful candidate will have drive and enthusiasm to continue to take this forward at pace in conjunction with the Director of Nursing and Quality, the Professional Practice leads and the wider Senior Leadership Team.

The role will include the operational leadership of a number of key aspects of the Director of Nursing & Quality portfolio and provide visible professional and clinical leadership within the Fylde Coast Network. This is a fast paced role which will require extensive clinical and leadership experience. If you have the passion to drive the delivery of high quality care and continually improve clinical practice then this could be the role for you!

For informal enquiries please contact Laura Holt, Director of Nursing and Quality,laura.holt@lscft.nhs.uk

Please note shortlisting will take place on Friday 17th May, applicants must be able to attend an interview on Thursday 23rd May.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.


This advert closes on Thursday 16 May 2024