Associate Director of Nursing and Quality

3 weeks ago


Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom NHS Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced senior nurse and leader to join our team as Associate Director of Nursing and Quality. This is a unique opportunity to work alongside the Care Group Director and the wider leadership team to provide a strong systems perspective to the quality governance and professional leadership agenda across the Group.

The successful candidate will be responsible for internal quality, professional standards, and the delivery of high-quality patient-centered care in Health in Justice services. They will contribute to a culture that demonstrates our new Trust values of respect, compassion, and responsibility and help us achieve our three big goals:

  • To co-create a great experience for our colleagues
  • To deliver high-quality patient-centered care
  • To improve the wellbeing of our region
Main Duties

The Associate Director of Nursing and Quality will provide a visible, accessible, and authoritative presence in clinical areas, ensuring that the fundamentals of care are right. They will provide professional advice on nursing matters, lead the Professional Nurse Advisory Group, and ensure continuous professional development and clinical supervision practices are in place and accessible for all nurses.

Working closely with the leadership team, they will ensure the provision of services within an integrated governance framework that is safe, effective, and efficient and maintains standards against a broad range of local, national, and statutory requirements and policies. They will also support and facilitate all nurses to be adherent with the professional fitness to practice obligations in line with NMC revalidation requirements.

About Us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York, and Selby. We work in partnership with our patients, communities, and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in, and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families, and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

Person Specification

The successful candidate will have:

  • Current nurse registration at 1st Level
  • Understanding and experiential knowledge of professional nursing governance and development
  • Advanced analytical and synthetical level intellectual skills
  • Ability to manage advanced levels of knowledge
  • Project management and change management skills
  • Foundation level research and development skills
  • Knowledge of integrated governance/quality governance
  • Advanced communication and interpersonal skills
  • Report writing and precis skills
  • Presentation and teaching skills
  • Supervisory and mentoring skills
  • Review and investigation skills
Experience

The successful candidate will have significant experience in a senior management role (above band 7/ward manager level) to evidence use of strategic and operational management skills and thinking skills. They will also have experience in mentoring, coaching, and assessment, as well as investigation, review, and data analysis.

They will be able to demonstrate knowledge and skill in investigation, review, and data analysis through multiple experiences of investigation and governance review processes where information collation and analysis are required.

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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