Associate Divisional Director of Nursing

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Renal trained Nurse with senior leadership experience to join this well established team at the South West Thames, Renal & Transplant Centre. The service is a Renal Tertiary service supporting SW London and Surrey. It consists of inpatient, outpatient, Home therapies and supports 9 Dialysis units across Surrey., Work with the Director of Nursing and Divisional Medical Directors to meet the division's key performance targets, leading effective and efficient delivery operational and clinical services with particular emphasis on effective clinical care, as well as implementing the strategic, financial and operational plans and efficiently deploying the resources of the Directorate.

The post holder will work collaboratively with the Director of Nursing to provide high quality, strategic, professional and visible nursing leadership. Advising and supporting on Divisional Nursing issues across the service will be a main requirement of the role. The post holder will also work collaboratively with the Corporate Nursing services.Experience of managing workforce and budget is essential to this role, as is the ability to be responsive to the ever changing NHS landscape.

The Renal service is currently planning for future integration with Renal colleagues at St Georges, with an exciting new building on the St George's site. The role will require the ability to lead, manage and support change and the vision to design patient pathways to achieve excellent, high quality pathways for our patient population. The ability to work across and at off site services is essential where services cover a large geographical area.

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St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.