Job summary
- Main area
- Chief Nurse
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 382-COR19-25
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £100,000 - £200,000 Dependant on Experience
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Nursing, AHP & Midwifery Officer
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a confident, experienced and talented Executive Director of Nursing, Midwifery, Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) and Quality to join the Trust Board.
This role is critical to the vision for health care that the Trust recently set out in its new five-year strategy and, for the right person, is a huge opportunity with huge potential to make an impact and a difference to colleagues, partners and local people living across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre.
Main duties of the job
Providing highly visible professional leadership and direction for colleagues is a critical part of this role. We’re looking for someone who will work closely with medical, operational and corporate colleagues to inspire improvements that make a real difference to our patients and their families. In addition, as a key part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System, you’ll need to actively build relationships and collaborate openly with colleagues across the Integrated Care Board, the Provider Collaborative and the area’s five providers.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals is a challenged provider on a defined improvement journey and the expectations on this Executive Director will be significant, but regulators have consistently recognised colleagues in both hospital and community services for ‘caring’ and you’ll inherit a great team of people who will help every step of the way. You’ll also have the support of the Chief Executive and a refreshed Trust Board of talented and experienced Executive and Non-Executive Directors who will encourage and champion your ideas and successes each and every day.
We’re looking for someone who is committed to creating the very best health care services we can for our local population and those further afield who need our specialist expertise in a significant and important role at the heart of the Trust. If it sounds like you, please get in touch to find out more and discuss this very unique opportunity.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the Job Description and main responsibilities, please review the attached document.
The Person Specification attached clarifies the skills and experience required to meet the criteria to undertake the post.
Please note :
In the short term some aspects of Clinical Governance will be included in the role of Chief Nursing, AHP & Midwifery officer, accountabilities may in due course transfer to another role, with a dotted line to this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse.
- Master's degree, other relevant postgraduate qualification in nursing or related/relevant subject or equivalent experience.
- Management qualification or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Board level experience.
- At least 3 year's senior management experience in an NHS acute trust, operating at or close to Board level in an acute Trust.
- Expert knowledge and skills in managing the demands of the Nursing, Midwifery and AHP workforce.
- Recent evidence of introducing practice innovation and change in professional practice.
- Detailed understanding of the process and delivery of healthcare services and of government policy for modernising healthcare.
- Experience of leading significant organisational change.
- Experience of improving services and patient experience through patient engagement.
- Experience in nursing and midwifery issues which includes NMC requirements, pre and post registration nurse education and the educational implications of the workforce redesign agenda.
- Experience of managing significant projects to successful completion. Experience of partnership working at a senior level with other professions and disciplines towards a common goal.
- Experience of successful experience in leading the patient safety and quality agenda within an acute Trust environment
- Experience of delivering high levels of productivity and efficiency.
- Experience of leading on clinical governance and risk management strategies Understanding of clinical governance, information governance and quality performance.
- Acute experience.
- Experience of successful management of complex serious incidents.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent presentational skills, including public speaking to large audiences.
- Knowledge of key current issues in NHS systems reform.
- Strategic thinking and innovation.
- Excellent verbal and written skills.
- Highly developed influencing, persuading and communication skills.
- Well-developed leadership skills and emotional intelligence.
- Robust, with experience of being able to balance competing priorities and meet personal and directorate targets within a demanding workload.
- Courage to challenge the status quo and follow through change.
- Ability to deal with people at all levels to guide, support and counsel on highly complex and contentious issues.
- Able to interpret/analyse complex financial and statistical data and report on it.
- Ability to undertake research on a wide range of relevant topics and related issues.
- Politically astute.
- Ability to plan, execute and deliver.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Dynamic and entrepreneurial.
- Displays strong leadership skills.
- Role model for Trust core behaviours, including diversity.
- Displays strong intellectual ability.
- Ability to be credible at all levels of the Trust and across all staff groups.
- Positive attitude to change.
- Ability to handle situations of high emotional intensity.
- Embodies the Trust values.
- Displays honesty and integrity with personal values aligned to those of the Trust and NHS Constitution
- Self-awareness, emotional intelligence and resilience.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- A strong commitment to personal continuing professional development.
- Sound IT skills in Microsoft Office and Word.
- Able to attend meetings and conferences across the country including overnight stays.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Catherine McDonald
- Job title
- Acting Chief Executive
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 956859
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