Divisional Director of Nursing for Family and Specialist Services

This is an exciting opportunity, as we are looking for a highly experienced and inspirational Nurse leader to join as a Divisional Director of Nursing for a 12-month fixed term (or secondment for internal applicants).

Leading a positive and inclusive culture will be one of your top priorities, ensuring that our patients are at the heart of everything we do. The post holder will be professionally responsible for the Nursing and Allied Health professional workforce across the Family and Specialist Services division. The specialities include; Bath Chronic Fatigue Services, Breast, Gynaecology, Haematology & Oncology, Paediatrics, Paediatric Fatigue Services, Pharmacy and Sexual Health.

Main duties of the job

You will have a track record of empowering and motivating multidisciplinary teams and working across the organisation to deliver high-quality care, service innovation and improved clinical pathways.

You will be responsible for leading and operationalising the significant investment in Nurse inpatient safer-staffing, introducing new roles and ways of working as part of an outpatient workforce review, the roll-out of the patient safety incident response framework, co-producing with patients and staff to improve our current CQC rating of good, utilising our 'improving together' QI methodology.

You will have the opportunity to lead and represent the Trust in portfolios of clinical governance, Nursing workforce, patient experience, and clinical and professional standards across the BSW ICB.

At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!

We value learning, teaching, and training and fund academic study for further development of senior leaders at master's level such as, the MBA apprenticeships, the Nye Bevan Programme, as well as the Florence Nightingale leadership scholarship, to continue your own professional development and personal leadership journey. We also encourage flexible working and can offer a competitive relocation package.