As Head of Nursing for Site and Operations at UHNM, you will provide senior nursing leadership and operational oversight of clinical flow across the Trust’s multiple hospital sites. You will lead and support the Clinical Site Managers, Senior Clinical Flow, and Non-Clinical Flow team to ensure the delivery of safe, timely, and effective patient movement. This role is central to maintaining continuous flow throughout the organisation, in alignment with both local and national targets.
You will work closely with the Professional Lead for Quality and Operations to provide tactical operational cover during core weekday hours. You will be accountable for ensuring that patient flow is optimised and escalations are managed effectively. As a senior leader your will take a key role in the Trust’s Urgent and Emergency Care programme, you will contribute to the achievement of key performance indicators, including ambulance handover times and 4-hour/12-hour emergency department targets. Your leadership will be instrumental in resolving operational issues, implementing Trust policies, and supporting staff across all departments.
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Ferneyhough Job title: Professional Lead Quality and Operations Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07881330921
Please note - interviews will take place over a whole day and will included a stake holder panel, unprepared presentation/competency based exercise and a formal interview.
