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Professional Lead Nurse (Mental Health) (Ref: 207233)
Commensurate with existing salary
Full-time, 1.0 WTE
Secondment to September 2025
Scotland – hybrid working will apply for the foreseeable future. This is a national role, travel throughout Scotland may be required.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior nurse to gain experience working in a national health board until the end of September 2025. The Professional Lead Nurse for Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) is a high-profile role, providing senior level professional leadership and advice across the organisation and externally with partners in NHS Boards, education and professional and regulatory bodies. The post holder will be directly responsible to the Interim Director of the Nursing and Systems Improvement (NSI) Directorate.
As a key member of NSI’s Senior Management Team, NMAHP Leadership and Advisory Group, and HIS’s Professional and Clinical Leadership and Governance groups you will be a highly visible, proactive and accessible Nurse leader. You will be a professional nursing role model, providing compassionate and kind leadership and expert clinical professional advice across HIS programmes of work, supporting nurses and their MDT to achieve outcomes: professional, clinical and programme. Bringing contemporaneous leadership experience in mental health you will provide expert advice to programmes across HIS such as the design and delivery of our mental health quality management system (QMS).
You will have experience of working in a complex health and care environment ensuring that within HIS you are enabled to provide oversight and guidance, as well as constructive challenge in relation to the strategic planning and delivery of Improvement and Assurance programmes at national level. Working with Clinical and Care leads across the organisation you will ensure the provision of effective cross organisational clinical and care governance assurance, clinical engagement and specialist clinical advice on Nursing professional matters and, more broadly, NHS structure, organisation, personnel and service delivery issues.
As a member of SEND Communities of Practice you will ensure effective engagement with a range of practice fields and areas, as well as organisations and their respective Royal Colleges, trade unions/ Professional Organisations and regulatory bodies ensuring that relevant policy and strategic developments are influenced and considered on behalf of HIS.
Working collaboratively with AHP and Midwifery Leads in the NMAHP team you will enhance and support the development and delivery of a strong NMAHP function within HIS, ensuring there is a robust approach to engagement of professional groups across HIS and the Health and Care sector, elevating and highlighting the impact of work undertaken by AHPs within HIS, both internally and externally with our stakeholders.
Closing Date: Sunday 02 March 2025 at midnight
It is anticipated that interviews will be held via MS Teams on Friday 14 March 2025.
Seniority level
* Director
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Hospitals and Health Care
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