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Associate Director for Harm Free Care

On-site in Basildon·Added today (last checked 9 Nov)

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Our summary

Salary: £79,504 a year
About £4,720 a month after tax.
Closing date: Apply by Thursday 19 November

The role

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced Nurse or AHP with extensive safeguarding experience to join MSE as our Associate Director for Harm Free Care until 31st March 2027.

You will work internally with the senior divisional leadership teams to endorse harm free care across all areapromoting falls awareness and tissue viability creating a culture within the Trust that learns and adapts to meet the harm free care agenda.

You will use your expertise to support the harm free care teams in the delivery of case support, supervision, and expert advice to clinicians to take appropriate action in response to clinical issues that arise. Providing expert advice and second opinions to colleagues including when views may differ or conflict.

So if this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please apply today.

Main duties of the job

Should you be successful, you will:

Effectively lead and manage the Trust's Tissue Viability and Falls services. This will include the day-to-day operational management of the Falls practitioner and Tissue Viability Lead Nurse including sickness absence management; escalation of performance concerns and undertaking appraisals.
Provide clinical and professional leadership, expertise and advice in specialist area at an advanced level to health care professionals, service users and key stakeholders.
Accountable for the development and publication of the Trust's tissue viability and falls Annual reports and presentation at governance meetings and to external stakeholders.
Evaluate and monitor Falls and Tissue Viability standards in line with local and national self-assessment assurance processes.
Effectively lead and manage the Trust's Tissue Viability and Falls services.
Responsible for the development and delivery of the harm free care agenda ensuring inclusion with the safeguarding and complex needs harm free care work plan and audit plan, ensuring compliance with relevant CQC standards and NICE guidance

About us

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Unfortunately, there is no Visa Sponsorship available for this role. Whilst we are able to employ candidates on a graduate Visa, we are unable to offer sponsorship once the graduate visa expires.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered professional with current NMC/ HCPC registration
Master's degree or equivalent experience in health-related subject
Developed and specialist knowledge of safeguarding and clinical issues at Master level (can be acquired through significant experience in role)
Evidence of significant continuous professional development

Desirable

Supervision qualification
Completion of a recognised leadership/management course

Knowledge & Experince

Essential

Completion of a recognised leadership/management course
Experience of working strategically across a range of HFC portfolios with extensive experience of working with a range of partner organisations
Developing, implementing and managing patient experience, quality and performance measure
Evidence of working with a wide range of external organisations including local authorities, commissioners and voluntary agencies..
Experience of effectively managing teams and ensuring performance consistently delivered.
Knowledge of management of harm free care with focus on Tissue viability and Falls management
Good understanding of quality, safety and risk management and clinical governance process

Desirable

Experience of policy/project development
Leadership management role Change management

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.