Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies

Are you passionate about Children, Young People, Families (CYPF) and putting individuals at the heart of everything you do? Are you an experienced, compassionate senior nurse or AHP who strives for excellence in the delivery of safe, effective and recovery focused care?

If you are we would love to hear from you and encourage an application from you for our exciting new role.

You will work in a variety of settings across Herefordshire and Worcestershire, providing highly visible professional leadership for Nurses and AHPs, ensuring that the highest standards of clinical care for CYPF are delivered in line with national and local standards. We are developing our services to offer the best possible outcomes for the people we care for and this role will be integral to that journey.

The directorate also incorporates specialist primary care services including sexual health services and dentistry and an ability to use transferable skills to offer professional leadership and quality oversight to these teams will be required.

In return we will offer you a supportive team environment that cares for the staff working as part of it. We strive to be compassionate and kind in everything we do, and hope this creates the environment for our teams and staff to offer that kindness and compassion to the service users they work with.

We would welcome telephone calls from interested candidates so we can discuss this fantastic opportunity to be part of real change and quality improvement.

Main duties of the job

Is a core member of the triumvirate senior leadership team and is responsible for ensuring Nurses and AHPs have the right skills, in the right place to provide the right care at the right time and are capable, confident and competent to deliver high quality service user centred care.

Is accountable and responsible for providing the professional leadership of the registered and non-registered Nursing and AHP workforce across defined services. The post holder will ensure services are appropriately resourced and able to meet all the regulatory care standards required.

Will provide senior strategic visible clinical and professional leadership, for Nursing and AHPs. Providing specialist expertise and taking specific responsibility for patient safety, quality and experience.

Will hold overall responsibility for the standard of Nursing and AHP care within the service delivery unit.

Will work with the Associate Director and Associate Medical Director to ensure that services have a clear clinical model, that staff understand their roles in relation to this, and that a system of agreed quality metrics is used to demonstrate efficacy of care delivery.

Will provide strategic and operational Nursing and AHP input to ensure appropriate advice is provided to the clinical teams so that effective, high quality, safe, recovery focussed services are delivered consistently across the services.

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. Its why we were named Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year award at the 2022 Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer

27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service

Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours

Flexible and agile working opportunities

Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support

Wide range of staff networks such as LGBT+ and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage)

Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes

Health and wellbeing opportunities