Assistant Director of Nursing - Medicine | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced senior nurse leader to join the medicine leadership team as an Assistant Director of Nursing (ADN) working in Gastroenterology, Endoscopy, Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Medicine for an initial fixed-term period of 3 months. You will be joining a passionate, cohesive, supportive team with areas of outstanding practice in a busy, fast-paced environment offering the opportunity to lead, innovate, develop, improve and showcase. We are keen to appoint immediately and therefore the ability to join the team without delay is required.

• Please note, there is a requirement for the successful candidate to commence in post by the start of December - please consider this and ensure this is supported before applying.
You will join the Head of Operations and Clinical Directors forming the leadership team for the Care Group, and be accountable for overseeing the performance against key indicators and measures of quality, safety, people, finance and clinical effectiveness. You will lead a team of Matrons with several wards, departments and specialist teams reporting to you within the care group and are responsible for managing the budget and management of resources within your areas of responsibility. You will also provide senior clinical leadership and support into the daily operational meetings such as flow and staffing, taking responsibility on a rota to be the representative and lead for medicine nursing teams for the day. You will hold delegated responsibility for the Divisional IPC portfolio and will provide assurance on behalf of the care group into Divisional Groups, managing governance including complaints, incidents and risks as a core element of the role.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience. The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.