Main area Psychological Medicine and Older Adults Directorate Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Fixed term: 18 months (The post is fixed for 18 months - starting 1st March 2025)
Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9-5 (weekday)) Job ref 334-NUR-6899541-LF
Site 113 Denmark Hill Town Camberwell Salary £64,408 - £73,961 per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 27/01/2025 23:59
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Job overview
To support the Head of Nursing and Quality to drive the programme for quality and professional standards across the Psychological Medicine and Older Adults Directorate ensuring that the delivery of consistently high quality care consistent with CQC fundamental standards, safeguarding principles, Trust values and Trust and Operational Directorate Strategic Ambitions.
The Deputy Head of Nursing and Quality will have delegated responsibility for the quality of nursing across the Specialist and Older Adults pathways and will work within agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, controls and constraints. The applicant needs to be a registered mental health nurse.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the job are to support the Head of Nursing and Quality in the duties below:
* Strategic professional leadership and practice standards.
* Service Transformation.
* Quality Assurance.
* Professional Advice and Senior Leadership Responsibilities.
* Nursing Workforce Development.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse
* Evidence of recent continuing professional development
* Master’s Degree or equivalent
Experience
* Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your management and clinical teams.
* Demonstrable ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
* Proven ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources.
* Engaging team in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback.
Knowledge / Skills
* Anticipating patients’ needs and designing, promoting or supporting the delivery of services that exceed patient, carer and patient’s representative expectation.
* In depth problem solving - Solving difficult problems through careful and systematic evaluation of information, possible alternatives and consequences.
* Proven ability to collaborate constructively with internal partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working.
Please note:
* That all applications for this post will need to be made online.
* That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria.
* That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible.
* That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful.
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