Director of Nursing - UPMC Whitfield Hospital

Operations: • Responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of all nursing services, with particular emphasis on quality care, positive patient experience, performance management, and productivity. • Ensure the delivery of high-quality standards by collaborating with the quality team in the ongoing promotion of the quality agenda and continued compliance with all accreditation standards. • To work closely with the Leadership Team on the development and implementation of business continuity and emergency plans. • Developing and implementing strategic plans for nursing services that align with the overall goals of the organisation, ensuring that the nursing service operates in a cost-effective manner, and identifying opportunities for improvement. • To deliver on recruitment and retention goals in line with the hospital’s recruitment strategy. • Oversee the development of effective reporting and analysis to support strategic decision making. • Lead on transformational change to enable the effective delivery of hospital strategy. • Proactively engage clinicians in the evolution and development of clinical services to provide best patient outcomes. Leadership: • Provide leadership and direction to the nursing team, promoting a positive and collaborative working environment and ensuring that staff are motivated, engaged, and supported to achieve organizational goals. • Collaborate with executive colleagues on the development of succession planning and talent management strategies within nursing and other areas as required. • Promote an environment that is conducive to the development of best practice, enhances staff retention, and promotes open staff communication and engagement. • Ensure service delivery models meet best international practices, are commercially viable, efficient, and satisfactory to patients and service users. • Promote the development of a culture that staff are accountable, responsible and have authority to practice and manage within their scope of practice or role. Financial: • Manage the budget portfolio linked to the specific functions within the remit of the role. • Accountable for financial performance of the nursing department. • To manage staffing requirements e.g. agency spend for all areas within budgeted costs. • Analyse financial information to ensure all operations are within budget. Development, Learning Education: • Ensure that nursing staff have access to training, development, and continuing education opportunities, promoting ongoing professional development, and supporting career progression. • Take personal responsibility for own professional development and keep up to date with evidence based practice and research. Quality Improvement and Risk Management: • Lead the development and ensure compliance with all relevant UPMC Whitfield guidelines, policies, procedures and relevant legislation and regulatory requirements across all services. • Encourage a culture of safety, continuous review and evaluation of policies, guidelines and existing practices through regular audit programmes and review, engaging with the multidisciplinary team where required. • Promoting a culture of continuous quality improvement, establishing quality improvement programs and initiatives, monitoring, and reporting on quality metrics, and ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory standards. • Working with nursing and quality leads to set and monitor core objectives, standards, and key performance indicators for the services, and monitor performance against these standards through internal and (where applicable) external audit. • Provide clinical nursing leadership in proactively addressing ethical and quality of service issues with multidisciplinary team members and hospital management.