Head of Nursing & Quality - Marie Curie Yorkshire
We are seeking an experienced Head of Nursing & Quality to provide senior clinical leadership for Marie Curie Bradford Hospice, ensuring outstanding standards of care, strong clinical governance and a culture of continuous quality improvement.
This is a high impact leadership role, offering a hybrid working arrangement with a regular presence at our Bradford Hospice and close collaboration with regional and national clinical leaders.
Main duties of the job
As Head of Nursing & Quality, you will hold professional accountability for nursing practice, patient safety, clinical governance and quality improvement across the hospice. You will play a critical role in driving excellence, supporting teams through change, and ensuring services are safe, caring, effective, responsive and well led.
You will:
- Provide visible, compassionate and credible senior nursing leadership
- Lead and assure clinical governance, quality, risk and safeguarding
- Drive service improvement and learning using data, audit and feedback
- Ensure compliance with CQC, NMC and internal Marie Curie standards
- Support, develop and inspire senior nurses and multidisciplinary teams
- Contribute to strategic planning and regional clinical leadership forums
Contract: Permanent, Full Time, 35 hours per week
Job responsibilities
You will be a Registered Nurse (NMC) with substantial senior leadership experience within complex healthcare environments, ideally including hospice, palliative care, community or acute settings.
We’re looking for someone who brings:
- Significant experience in clinical leadership at senior level
- Strong expertise in clinical governance, quality and patient safety
- A track record of service improvement and change leadership
- Confidence working with regulators (e.g. CQC) and managing inspections
- Excellent communication and engagement skills
- A values led approach aligned with compassionate, person‐centered care
Experience in end of life or hospice care is desirable, but not essential for the right candidate.
Benefits
- Annual leave allowance 25 days plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
- Competitive policy for parental/sick leave
- Industry leading training programmes
- Season ticket loan for travelling to and from work
- Defined contribution schemes for Pension
- Loan schemes for bikes, computers and satellite navigation systems
- Introduce a friend scheme
- Help with eye care cost
- Entitled to Marie Curie Blue Light Card
- Entitled to Benefit‑Hub Discount Scheme
- Life assurance for all employees
We will honor any length of service with the NHS in relation to salary and annual leave entitlement.
Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in health and social care in the private, public or voluntary sector
- Senior professional with a proven background in managing quality and governance within a complex health or social care system
- Registered professional e.g. Registered Nurse, AHP, Social Worker
- Commitment to continued professional development
- Relevant qualifications required to undertake the Responsible Individual / Registered Manager role as outlined by the relevant regulator
- Educated to masters level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in health and social care setting
Skills & Abilities
- Provide or receive highly complex, sensitive information and develop solutions/options for discussion with teams / stakeholders
- Negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, including performance and change
- Evidence of quality improvement and change management
- Present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups internally and externally
- Problem‑solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to professionally lead multi‑professional alliances across teams and organisations
- Ability to horizon scan and anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Ability to prioritise own work effectively, and be able to direct the activities of others
- Ability to make decisions autonomously on difficult issues when required
- Ability to work with different disciplines across health and social care in the private, public and voluntary sector
- Evidence of cross‑sectoral and partnership working
- Evidence of community engagement and development experience
Knowledge
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Evidence of leading teams and services to deliver high quality, safe, patient‑centred care within a palliative and end‑of‑life context
- Evidence of leading governance, quality improvement and risk management
- Evidence of operational management and leadership skills including managing clinical teams in terms of workforce development, recruitment and retention, performance and capability management
- Knowledge of patient/public involvement and engagement
- Project management qualification or experience
Personal Qualities, Values & Behaviours
- Awareness of and commitment to the Mission, Vision and Values of Marie Curie
- Demonstrated commitment to the improvement of quality and promotion of high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- High level of work organisation, self‑motivation and drive for performance
- Builds and maintains constructive relationships based on shared understanding of issues with colleagues, partners and stakeholders
- Passionate, positive and enthusiastic about delivering the best for patients and their carers and families
- Able to demonstrate openness and honesty when things go wrong to facilitate an open learning culture
- Demonstrates understanding and ability to consistently and fairly apply policy and procedure in a person‑centred way when dealing with people
- Can demonstrate self‑awareness and resilience particularly when under pressure or dealing with difficult situations
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.
£64,500 to £72,000 a year (Aligned to AFC Band 8b)
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