Job overview

Hywel Dda Health Board are searching for a Deputy Director of Nursing, Quality and Patient Experience!

The successful applicant will be clinically and managerially responsible for ensuring the policy and delivery of nursing and midwifery services across the organisation.

They will drive and implement the required standards to successfully deliver the aims and objectives required within the professional nursing regulatory frameworks and standards. 

To be responsible for leading policy and strategy development in relation to all aspects of the Health Board’s Nursing, Quality and Patient Experience Programmes which requires expert clinical knowledge.

The Deputy Director of Nursing, Quality Patient and Experience will deputise for the Executive Director of Nursing, Quality and Patient Experience in all areas of responsibilities and accountabilities within their defined portfolio. 

Main duties of the job

·       Leading and implementing health board-wide policy and strategy requirements relating to all elements of nursing, patient experience and quality. Engaging with and managing external stakeholder directives and statutory requirements. 

·       Contribute and lead on the continuing improvement and transformation of clinical services within a complex organisation. 

·       Provide inspirational, dynamic professional management and leadership, and ensure statutory regulation and supervision for all Nurses, Midwives and Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (hereafter referred to as ‘Nurses’) and others.

·       Utilise all available evidence to develop, implement and evaluate the nursing and midwifery strategic framework for the Health Board in accordance with Welsh Government policies. 

·       Lead in creating an environment in which excellence, research and development, public protection and patient safety can flourish to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. 

·       Develop a dynamic partnership with national groups, HEIW and local Education Institutions in order to promote an ethos in which education, research and innovation contribute to the excellence of patient care and the quality of the workforce. 

·       Provide leadership to all corporate nursing teams working with the Assistant Directors of Nursing and Heads of Nursing and Head of Midwifery to ensure the overall discharge of quality and safety governance in the Health Board.

Working for our organisation

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services to almost 400,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest.

Five community hospitals: Amman Valley Hospital and Llandovery Hospital in Carmarthenshire,  Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire.

Two integrated care centres (Aberaeron and Cardigan, Ceredigion).

Community facilities, including:

48 General Practices (GP surgeries), 49 Dental Practices, 98 Community Pharmacies (chemists), 44 General Ophthalmic Practices (including eye health and low vision services), 38 sites providing mental health and learning disability services, care within your own homes

Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.