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