Employer: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Leatherhead Hub
Town: Leatherhead
Salary: £107,507 - £123,393 per annum including 5% fringe HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/02/2025 23:59
Director of Quality and Nursing Professional Standards
NHS AfC: Band 9
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
This role will act to ensure high quality and effective care for people who use our services is delivered throughout our Trust in accordance with our vision and values. High Quality Care is number one of our strategic priorities and is supported by our values which set our culture. The role will actively promote our culture aligned to our values. This post will lead on the next steps in the development and delivery of a robust quality management system across the Trust to drive improvement and our continuous learning. Accountable and responsible to the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), the post holder will work largely unsupervised and will be able to credibly influence across the organisation and health and care system at the highest level. They will motivate and develop clinicians who are able to drive forward service transformation and quality improvement across mental and physical health care, both within our organisation and across organisational boundaries.
This role would benefit from a postholder who has strengths and skills in data insights and reporting to drive improvements across the organisation. This role would be suitable for someone wishing to be supported to develop into a Chief Nursing Officer role and will provide opportunities to operate at this level.
Main duties of the job
Key duties are as follows (please see job description for the full list):
* The post holder will be required to build and maintain good working relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders on a range of business sensitive issues and nurture key relationships with senior and high-profile individuals and responsible for the maintenance of productive networks both within and outside the organisation.
* They will be responsible for managing several different teams/functions ensuring effective line management support – this will include but not limited to Deputy Caldicott Guardian, Mental Capacity Act, development of our Clinical Quality Priorities, Physical Health and Infection Prevention Control, Flu and Covid Vaccination Campaigns, Patient Carer Race Equality Framework implementation (PCREF), Nurse revalidation and continuing professional development, supporting university/placements/education.
* They will also be responsible for leading regulatory standards compliance including CQC readiness across the organisation and ensure effective Trust wide quality governance and compliance systems of work are in place to support practice through the organisation and meet national CQC and other regulatory requirements.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.
We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Professional Nursing Qualification and current registration
* Master’s Degree in relevant subject or equivalent experience
* Evidence of management/leadership experience with additional management qualification
Experience
* Relevant and substantial management experience at a senior level within the NHS or equivalent complex organisation
* Experience of analysing complex quality performance data, providing insights following this analysis including themes and trends, write accurate, succinct, and logical reports to support understanding of achievements, risks and challenges
* Experience and knowledge of quality management systems and how to optimise the system to drive quality improvement
* Successful delivery of large-scale quality improvement programmes and significant change
* Experience of planning, implementing, and evaluating quality and of using quality improvement methodologies
* Extensive experience of Care Quality Commission and regulatory bodies requirements
* Experience of human and financial resource management
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, 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 any other flexible working patterns.
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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