Head of Nursing

**Head of Nursing & Allied Health Professionals - Community MH**:
**Band 8c**:
**Main area**
- Management
- **Grade**
- Band 8c
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-1200**Site**
- Banham House
- **Town**
- Bodmin
- **Salary**
- £67,064 - £77,274 Per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
Do you thrive on new challenges? Fancy the idea of leading Mental Health Nursing & AHP’s? Want to influence service transformation?

We are looking for you to join our new senior leadership and management team. This new role will be pivotal in leading Cornwall’s Community Mental Health Services significant transformational change program and help create new opportunities for our Nursing & AHP workforce, that give the people of Cornwall the best mental health care. This is a genuinely exciting opportunity to create a new position within our service structure. All we need you to be is wholeheartedly committed to your profession, be able to strive for quality and have a focus on advancing our workforce to enhance the patient care.

We would value all your professional experiences in both clinical and operational settings to work with us in remodelling our services. We need you to be forward thinking, creative and brave in developing a culture of quality and leadership within our services. Working across Community Mental Health Service you will support the complete transformation of the CMHT’s, work with Operational Managers and Community Mental Health Matrons to expand our Perinatal Mental Health Services, Early Intention in Psychosis Service and ensure that our nursing & AHP staff have the best experience in delivering high quality patient focused care across all our other existing Community Mental Health Services.

**Main duties of the job**:

- will take the lead on quality, safety, and patient experience across inpatient and crisis services within the division
- be responsible for the leadership of the non-medical clinical workforce, through the provision of support and guidance that will ensure our patients and staff are safe, cared for and listened to within a culture that promotes safety and openness.
- will lead on the development and delivery of both clinical and professional standards in line with the agreed performance objectives, targets, quality standards, resource controls and constraints.
- importantly this role takes a championing role in patient and family experience. This role will have a portfolio that reflects this as delegated by the Director of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals.
- will have responsibility for actively leading the delivery of the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Vision within commu