Associate Director of Nursing Workforce & Regulatory Standards

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Job overview

We're recruiting for an Associate Director of Nursing Workforce & Regulatory Standards to join our clinical leadership team as an ambassador for outstanding clinical care and workforce development within our nursing workforce.

This is a key role within the Chief Nurse’s senior team where you'll hold responsibility for several programmes of work and be the Trust's point of contact for all NMC and CQC activity and communication.

You'll drive forward our corporate work programme, aspiring to deliver exceptional experience to patients across the Trust in line with our values to be Caring, Safe and Excellent, through achievement of our strategy and quality indicators. This will include focusing and delivering on key Trust-wide priorities.

In this pivotal role you'll ensure safer staffing and the development of a career framework for nursing, underpinned with strong systems for clinical practice and leadership development for all nurses through the implementation of our Nursing Strategy.

This is an incredibly rewarding role where you can really make a positive difference to our mental health services and nursing workforce. If you're an NMC registered nurse with expertise in nursing policy, CQC regulatory standards and inspection models then we'd love to hear from you!

Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to be fully qualified, have already passed your OSCE and have an NMC pin number in order to be considered for this role

• Provide continual oversight and monitoring of the Trusts compliance with all registration requirements with the CQC.
• Take lead responsibility for the management of all information requested by the CQC and manage collation, review and return of information in an agreed timely manner.
• Support the Chief Nurse with coordinating any inspection work and monitoring the implementation of any action plans following inspections or any other regulatory activity.
• To work with the Chief Nurse to ensure inclusivity and diversity are achieved at all times through programmes of work such as the The Restorative Just and Learning Culture programme
• Development of the Nursing workforce alongside the Chief Nurse and Deputy Chief Nurse and other professional leads, to deliver high quality safe care across all our services
• Working closely with the learning and development team to develop a career progression framework which retains our clinical workforce including continued professional development and clinical education for all nurses, and support workforce
• Oversight of safe staffing and workforce safeguards as set out by NHSE/I
• Providing high quality written reports

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role

Person specification

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration
• Masters level study or equivalent

Knowledge

• Understanding of the CQC regulatory standards and inspection model

• Experience of CQC inspection from a leadership position

Experience

• Experience of safe staffing and workforce planning
• Experience in providing advice on complex professional and other HR issues

• Experience of involvement with the NMC in relation to staffing and professional practice issues.

• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing