Director of Nursing & Quality Governance

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Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust as the Director of Nursing & Quality Governance.

The post holder will lead on the quality governance agenda including all aspects of quality, safety, compliance and audit across the Trust. This will involve providing expert advice and leading the development of policy and strategy in related areas. The post holder will work in close partnership with managers and other healthcare professionals both across the Trust and external to the Trusts, to facilitate the delivery of a high quality effective clinical care.

Main duties of the job

This post will report to the Chief Nursing Officer and will work alongside the Director of Nursing for Patient Experience & Professional Development, as well as the corporate Medical Directors and Deputy Chief Operating Officers.

The post holder will provide vision, professional leadership and strategic direction to professional and non-professional nursing staff and Mental Health Workers across the Trust. You will advise the Chief Executive and the Board of Directors on all aspects of patient safety and quality governance.

The Director of Nursing will take responsibility for providing strategic leadership ensuring an effective legal services function including preparation for Coronial inquests; effective systems for management and learning from claims; and control of legal services expenditure.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, driven individual who is passionate about improving service user experience and staff engagement and development

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our Values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for providing excellent professional leadership for Nursing. The post holder will provide vision, professional leadership and strategic direction to professional and non-professional nursing staff and Mental Health Workers across the Trust as well as advice to the Chief Executive and the Board of Directors on all aspects of Quality Governance.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse
• Postgraduate masters/doctorate in mental health core professional subject or equivalent level of experience at Board level
• Management qualification

Desirable criteria

• Registered Mental Health Nurse

Skills

Essential criteria

• Good grasp of the current policy for health services in general and mental health services in particular
• Comprehensive knowledge of nursing issues and best practice
• Strong collaborative skills

Desirable criteria

• Track record of innovation and leading-edge mental health practice
• Recruitment, retention, and development of nursing staff

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of standard setting for a wide range of mental health services
• Experience of managing significant organisational change
• Proven ability to interpret national and local policy drivers understanding the political environment
• Experience of developing and sustaining excellence in the planning and delivery of patient care

Desirable criteria

• Experience as a Director of Nursing in a Trust
• Experience at senior level in a Trust with secure mental health services

Personal qualities

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable commitment to continuing personal development
• Political awareness and ability to influence and work with stakeholders at all levels
• Credible leader

Desirable criteria

• Commitment to mentoring

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Director of Nursing and Quality Governance (PDF, 224.4KB)
• Director of Nursing and Quality Governance (PDF, 40.5KB)
• Director of Nursing and Quality Governance (PDF, 608.5KB)