Deputy Head of Nursing - Health Inclusion and Continence Advisory

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior clinician to join the Integrated Local Services (ILS) directorate as Deputy Head of Nursing for Health Inclusion Services and Continence. The successful candidate will provide the clinical leadership for the service, working closely with the wider service management team with the full support of the directorate management team.

The role covers several high-profile established multi-disciplinary specialties and supports an award winning team provide care for Homeless, Refugee and Asylum, Continence advisory and High Intensity User services. The postholder will also have opportunities to lead on improvement projects, engage with our local commissioners, maintain strong health and social care partnerships with Lambeth Together and Partnership Southwark.

To deliver in this role, you will need experience of working within multi-professional teams and collaborative working with internal and external stakeholders. You will have a strong proven track record of inclusive leadership and staff management. You will have a proven history of clinical leadership experience and will demonstrate a high level of organisational skills to facilitate delivery of planned work and unplanned/unpredictable requirements associated with the role.We encourage applicants from all backgrounds.,

• To provide the Clinical Service Leadership for the Health Inclusion and Continence services.


• The Deputy Head of Nursing will hold the Service Management Team to account for delivery against their personal and the service's objectives through regular performance review meetings


• The Deputy Head of Nursing will ensuring effective action is taken where performance falls below, or is at risk of falling below expected levels, by setting remedial plans with the service manager and clinicians and appropriately challenging any failure of these plans to deliver improvements.


• To professionally lead nursing and multiple professional services and provide coaching and support to develop staff.


• To ensure effective clinical practice and the highest of professional standards from the clinical and professional workforce.


• To lead a culture of professional accountability and responsibility to patients, ensuring that staff learns from complaints and clinical incidents.


• To ensure that robust personal and clinical supervisory processes are in place and recorded appropriately.


Clinical work

• The postholder will maintain a senior clinical role in the service with a focus on patient-facing care and support for the MDT. This will be formalised via a job plan on appointment which will be reviewed annually.
  
  Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.


We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, and neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients