Corporate Head of Nursing and Quality

3 weeks ago

North East England, United Kingdom Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust Full time
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

The Corporate Head of Nursing and Quality will drive the programme of improvement for Quality and Professional Standards within the Trust ensuring that the delivery of consistently high-quality care is consistent with the CQC fundamental standards, safeguarding principles, Trust Values and the Trust and Directorate Strategic Objectives.

The Corporate Head of Nursing and Quality will have responsibility for several teams, working in close collaboration with the Directorates and their respective Heads of Nursing to deliver on agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, within resource constraints in line with local and national guidance. They will have a key role and responsibility in ensuring that the functions of these teams work for the benefit of patients and the respective clinical teams. They will have to develop and influence leaders from all disciplines to achieve this.

The post holder will take a facilitative and empowering approach, nurturing creativity and leading others to be open to doing things differently if the desired outcomes improve the patient, carer and staff experience. They will lead on working with the corporate support teams, Heads of Nursing, general managers, service managers, matrons, governance leads to ensure that quality data in all its forms is triangulated and validated. The post holder will lead on seeking to work with others to maximise digital solutions where possible.

Main duties of the job

The Corporate Head of Nursing and Quality will lead the Directorate by working closely with the Corporate Teams to provide demonstrable support and collaboration with the clinical Directorates and their respective leadership teams. They are responsible for ensuring that the quality of the clinical services including patient safety, patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes meet the required high standards.

They will lead and manage the Matrons for Physical Healthcare and IPC, the Nurse Education Team and the Promoting Safer Services Team to deliver against their respective agendas and to ensure these are in step and commensurate with the needs of clinical services. Under the guidance of the Deputy Chief Nurse the Corporate Head of Nursing will lead on the delivery of CQUINS for areas such as smoking cessation and restrictive practice and be the lead for vaccination campaigns.

They will be a resource for the clinical Directorates when there is a need for support when complex clinical decision-making arises. They will use their skills, experience and knowledge to offer a perspective ensuring service users and carers are held central to any decision-making.

They will lead under the guidance of the Deputy Chief Nurse, on safer staffing and nurse recruitment and development. They will work closely with the clinical directorates to ensure that safer staffing requirements are adhered to.

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Job responsibilities

Strategic Professional Leadership and Practice Standards.

The Corporate Head of Nursing and Quality will lead a team of nurses and other health professionals to ensure improved quality of care, quality assurance, safeguarding and direct care delivery across the Directorate.

The post holder will work with the Chief Nurse, Deputy Chief Nurse and others within the corporate teams and clinical directorates to ensure consistency of standards in practice, maximising learning from serious incidents, complaints, audits, research, practice experience and national guidance.

They will contribute to the performance of the directorate senior leadership team in meeting agreed goals and objectives, ensuring that quality information is accurate and that risk management systems are robust.

They will ensure clinical practice and care pathways are contemporary. The Corporate Head of Nursing and Quality will represent the Directorate at local, regional and national events, promoting achievements and ensuring that developments arising out of these are integrated into the Directorate strategy.

They will ensure that CQC fundamental standards of care are seen as the basic benchmark for care across the Directorate. Please see the attached Job Description for more information.

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving license and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Person Specification Education/Qualification
  • NMC registered Mental Health Nurse
  • Masters or working towards or able to demonstrate ability to work at Masters level
Experience
  • Significant experience at a senior nursing level in a mental health Trust
  • Evidenced experience of leading on a QI project that led to sustained change in outcomes for service users and carers
  • Experience of managing and delivering to deadlines and within resources
  • Experience of partnership working with service users and carers
Knowledge and Skills
  • Knowledge of QI methodologies
  • Able to think laterally able to interpret data and synthesize complex information
  • Able to demonstrate a genuine commitment to ensuring that services meet the needs of service users and carers and are delivered with multi-cultural sensitivity
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.

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