Deputy Chief Nurse - Blood Supply

Job description

Job summary

As Deputy Chief Nurse, you will play a pivotal strategic and professional leadership role within Blood Supply, supporting the Chief Nurse to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, high-quality donor care services across NHS Blood and Transplant's blood and apheresis operations. You will lead on clinical governance, professional standards, education and workforce development, while ensuring regulatory compliance and excellence in donor experience. This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced senior nursing leader to influence national strategy, drive service improvement, champion innovation and contribute to the delivery of life-saving services across England.
Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for:

• Provide strategic clinical and professional leadership across Blood Supply services.
• Deputise for the Chief Nurse and represent the function at senior leadership forums both within NHSBT and externally.
• Lead the development and implementation of nursing strategy, education programmes and workforce development initiatives.
• Ensure robust clinical governance frameworks are in place, promoting donor safety, regulatory compliance and high-quality care.
• Lead on safeguarding, clinical risk management, incident review and quality improvement programmes.
• Drive continuous improvement and transformational change across donor care services.
• Provide expert clinical advice on donor care, patient safety and professional nursing practice.
• Lead major strategic projects, research programmes, service developments and clinical innovations.
• Build effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, including national and international healthcare organisations.
• Inspire, develop and support a geographically dispersed nursing and multidisciplinary workforce

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applications from disabled candidates. We will talk with you to explore any adjustments that may help you during the recruitment process.

You can find more information about accessibility, our culture, and how we support applicants on the NHSBT Careers website:

• Read about our application process
• Learn more about our culture at NHSBT

To learn more, please see the job description and person specification. These can be accessed via the link below, or by clicking 'Apply' if you are viewing this advert on another site.

Job description
Job responsibilities

As a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applications from disabled candidates. We will talk with you to explore any adjustments that may help you during the recruitment process.

You can find more information about accessibility, our culture, and how we support applicants on the NHSBT Careers website:

• Read about our application process
• Learn more about our culture at NHSBT

To learn more, please see the job description and person specification. These can be accessed via the link below, or by clicking 'Apply' if you are viewing this advert on another site.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (Part 1 Adult/General Nurse, Level 1 or 2).
• Master's degree or equivalent master's-level experience with a commitment to complete a Master's qualification if not already held.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development, including leadership and management development.
• A commitment to continuous learning and improving professional practice.

Experience

Essential

• We are seeking an inspirational and credible senior nursing leader who can demonstrate:
• Substantial senior nursing leadership and management experience within a complex healthcare environment.
• Experience of leading multidisciplinary teams and services at a strategic level.
• A proven track record of delivering service improvement, transformation and organisational change.
• Extensive experience of clinical governance, patient safety, risk management and regulatory compliance.
• Experience of developing, motivating and leading teams to deliver organisational objectives.
• Experience of managing budgets and resources effectively.
• Knowledge of clinical audit, research, professional practice development and quality improvement methodologies.
• Experience of working collaboratively across organisational boundaries and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, communication, negotiation and report-writing skills.
• Experience of delivering services within regulated healthcare environments and an understanding of relevant quality and compliance frameworks.
• A commitment to maintaining excellent standards of donor and patient care and experience

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (Part 1 Adult/General Nurse, Level 1 or 2).
• Master's degree or equivalent master's-level experience with a commitment to complete a Master's qualification if not already held.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development, including leadership and management development.
• A commitment to continuous learning and improving professional practice.

Experience

Essential

• We are seeking an inspirational and credible senior nursing leader who can demonstrate:
• Substantial senior nursing leadership and management experience within a complex healthcare environment.
• Experience of leading multidisciplinary teams and services at a strategic level.
• A proven track record of delivering service improvement, transformation and organisational change.
• Extensive experience of clinical governance, patient safety, risk management and regulatory compliance.
• Experience of developing, motivating and leading teams to deliver organisational objectives.
• Experience of managing budgets and resources effectively.
• Knowledge of clinical audit, research, professional practice development and quality improvement methodologies.
• Experience of working collaboratively across organisational boundaries and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, communication, negotiation and report-writing skills.
• Experience of delivering services within regulated healthcare environments and an understanding of relevant quality and compliance frameworks.
• A commitment to maintaining excellent standards of donor and patient care and experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Blood and Transplant
Address

England

England

Bristol

BS34 7QH

United Kingdom

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