Chief Nursing Officer

at  NHS Shropshire Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board

The Chief Nursing Officer will take the lead in overseeing the quality of health services within the ICS including sharing intelligence and working with other key partners and regulators across and outside their system to improve quality of care and outcomes. They will be supported in this by the Chief Medical Officer and the wider senior clinical team. They will be the lead Director for the ICB Quality and Safety Committee and will be supported by senior clinical leads. The Chief Nursing Officer will attend NHS England Oversight meetings.
The Chief Nursing Officer is accountable for all matters relating to the relevant professional colleagues across the clinical and care workforce employed by the ICB. This includes designated accountability for statutory and non-statutory functions that the ICB will need to perform. This will include quality assurance and safeguarding. The Chief Nursing Officer will provide system leadership for the Local Maternity System, with the Chief Medical Officer chairing the LMNS Board.
The Chief Nursing Officer will have specific responsibility for the development of maternity services across STW in response to the independent maternity services review, with providers to drive quality and safety and improve outcomes. The Chief Nursing Officer will, along with the Chief Medical Officer, have an influential executive role and shared accountability for the development and delivery of the long-term clinical strategy of the ICB, ensuring this reflects and integrates the strategies of all relevant partner organisations within the ICS. The Chief Nursing Officer will, along with the Chief Medical Officer, will be accountable for providing high quality clinical and professional leadership of the ICBs activities. This includes ensuring that clinical and care professional leadership is embedded at all levels of the ICS as set out in the Clinical and Care Professional Leadership Guidance.
The Chief Nursing Officer will be responsible for building partnerships and working with provider collaboratives, public health, local government, other partners, and local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes and reductions in health inequity. Working closely with the Chief Medical Officer, the Chief Nursing Officer will be accountable for securing professional clinical and care leadership in delivery of the ICBs objectives and form part of the wider network of clinical and care leaders in the region and nationally. With the ICB board, ensuring that population health management, innovation and research support continuous improvements in patient services including digitally enabled clinical and care transformation and the clinical and care elements of a sustainable People Plan for the ICS workforce. Influencing and working collaboratively as part of a wider system to create opportunities to make sustainable long-term improvements to population health with key partners.
This may include developing approaches which are non-traditional in nature, ambitious and wide reaching in areas which incorporate the wider determinants that have an impact on improving clinical outcomes, better life outcomes and reducing health inequalities for the population of the ICS. Professionally accountable to the Regional Chief Nurse, the Chief Nursing Officer may from time-to-time be formally requested to act on behalf of NHS England on key performance, monitoring and accountability matters. This will include the identification of performance risks and issues related to the quality and safety of patient care and working with relevant providers and partners to enable solutions, and taking accountability for own practice, conduct and continuing professional development as a registered professional. Our Opportunities and Challenges Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin is a beautiful place to live and work, but there is more that we can do to improve peoples lives, tackle inequalities, and address the cause of loneliness, poverty and obesity.
As a system we are committed to working together as one to seek opportunities to work differently to join services up, maximise the opportunities of innovation and digital technology and ensure our environments are fit for our staff to deliver world-class modern-day health and care services. We are working in partnership across statutory and non-statutory health and care providers, through open and compassionate relationships; organising teams as locally as possible, and working with our communities, volunteers, and staff, to enable our populations to live healthier lives. Equally, our size enables us to be agile and fleet of foot in terms of decision making and delivery. However, there is a lot to do and there are some significant challenges for us to respond to.
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all and appointments made on merit. We particularly welcome applications from people who are from groups which are underrepresented at senior levels in the NHS and wider society, and we are a Disability Confident Employer. Stakeholder Panel Interviews for this role are scheduled for w/c 20 May but date to be confirmed Interviews for this role are scheduled for 23 May 2024 For a confidential discussion with Simon Whitehouse, Chief Executive Officer before applying for this role, please contact Claire Turner via claire.turner31@nhs.ne

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