Director of Nursing & Quality Governance | 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
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.
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
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
- 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.
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.
This advert closes on Sunday 19 Jan 2025