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As the Head of Nursing (which includes nursing, nursing associates, and support workers), you will provide strategic, professional, collective, clinical, and operational nursing leadership across LYPFT through effective leadership and role modelling. The post holder will have responsibility to ensure care is safe, effective, up-to-date, and evidence-based, reflecting the Chief Nursing Officer's Strategic Plan for Nursing.
The Head of Nursing will provide assurance of quality standards in relation to patient safety and regulation and will provide professional advice and challenge. The post holder will provide ward to board assurance with regards to learning from incidents, risk management, where significant harm has occurred, and will lead on key programmes of work to improve patient safety across the organisation. This will also include providing the regulators, Place, and ICB with relevant information to support evidence that care is delivered in accordance with care standards.
You will be responsible for providing advice to the Trust on matters relating to Nursing.
* Provide leadership and effective role modelling to all nursing and other non-medical staff
* Promoting high standards and quality of care and a responsive workforce
* Provide professional advice
* Professional development and training for Nursing
* Patient and clinical safety
* Safer staffing
* Clinical Policies, ensuring that they are up-to-date and adhered to
* Line management responsibility for Professional Leads for Nursing
* Deputise for the Deputy Director of Nursing
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage. Together, we are as diverse as the communities we care for. When we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities, and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy, and valued.
The Head of Nursing will be a credible leader in the care of patients with mental ill health and learning disabilities and will influence external policy and procedures as required. The Head of Nursing will be an expert resource for staff, patients, carers, and governors. The post holder will also support the Deputy Director of Nursing in all professional nursing elements across the organisation. You will role model high professional standards, behaviours, and attitudes; raising the profile of the NMC Professional Code of Conduct and its implications for nursing practice.
The Head of Nursing will be a skilled communicator, able to communicate highly complex and sensitive information at all levels across mental health and learning disability services. They will foster strong relationships across all LYPFT services as well as externally in the wider system.
You will have line management responsibility for the Professional Lead Nurses and the Professional Practice Lead. The post holder will liaise with the Head of Clinical Governance, Head of Patient Experience, Complaints and Legal services, Professional Lead Nurse Infection Control Lead Nurse, and Physical Health Lead Nurse, Head of Safeguarding, Clinical Leads, to ensure the implementation of risk identification and reduction measures within the service lines.
Seniority level
* Executive
Employment type
* Contract
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries: Hospitals
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