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
Essential
* NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse
* Evidence of recent continuing professional development
Desirable
* Master's Degree or equivalent
Experience
Essential
* 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
Essential
* 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.
Employer details
Employer name
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Address
113 Denmark Hill
Maudsley Hospital
Camberwell
SE5 8AZ
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