Chief Nurse

 

Main characteristics

Location

Birmingham, West Midlands

Company

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

Employment type

Permanent

Category

Nursing

Job summary

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust is an integrated care organisation. We are dedicated to improving the lives of local people, to maintaining an outstanding reputation for teaching and education, and to embedding innovation and research.
We employ over 7,000 people and spend around £430m of public money, largely drawn from our local Clinical Commissioning Group. That Group and this Trust is responsible for the care of 530,000 local people from across North-West Birmingham and all the towns within Sandwell. In 2022 our new hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, will open, bringing together teams providing acute and emergency care. This major investment in the area sits at the heart of our STP, and it places integration at the heart of our journey.
Our teams are committed to providing compassionate, high quality care from City Hospital on Birmingham's Dudley Road, from Sandwell General Hospital in West Bromwich, and from our intermediate care hubs at Rowley Regis and Leasowes in Smethwick.
The Trust includes the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre (a supra-regional eye hospital), as well as the Pan-Birmingham Gynae-Cancer Centre, our Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre, and the regional base for the National Poisons Information Service - all based at City.
We have a big ambition: to be the best integrated care organisation in the UK. We are not starting from scratch. We know that in Sandwell and West Birmingham, patients experience integrated care on a daily basis. Our single measures of success will be the opinion of those we care for: Our patients.
At this time of both challenging and exciting change for our organisation and the NHS we are seeking to appoint an outstanding Chief Nurse to join us as a key member of the Trust Board and Executive Leadership team. With a commitment to the delivery of outstanding patient care, the role is accountable for the overall clinical leadership of nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals.
You will be an existing director or deputy director of nursing, with significant leadership experience. A proud nurse, you will champion the voice of our patients and clinical workforce within the Trust, across our STP and within the region. You will create a culture of patient centred care by empowering staff, promoting personal accountability within the workforce and, in an environment of continual improvement, increasing patient outcomes and quality measures.
If you are energised and motivated to work with the board and our workforce to improve health inequalities across Sandwell and West Birmingham and support our ambition to become renowned as the best integrated care organisation in the NHS then we'd like to hear from you.
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How to apply
To apply for this role, please submit an up to date copy of your CV, completed fit and proper person form, along with a Supporting Statement that addresses the criteria set out in the person specification, using examples to demonstrate how you meet the essential requirements. Please provide your home, work, mobile and email contact details and let us know of any dates when you are not available or where you may have difficulty with the indicative timetable. You should also provide the names, positions, organisations and contact details for two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer. If you do not wish us to approach your referees without your prior permission, please state this clearly.
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Contact
The following consultants are managing this role and will be happy to answer any questions that are not covered in the person specification on the next webpage.
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