South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
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.
About us
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights.
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.
Job responsibilities
To support the Head of Nursing and Quality to drive the programme for quality and professional standards across PMOA 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 Operational Directorate and will work within agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, controls and constraints.
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.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary: £64,408 to £73,961 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS
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