About the role
Salary: £121528.00 to £138529.00
We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Deputy Director of Nursing & Quality to join us on a substantive basis.
As Deputy Director of Nursing, you will
- The post holder will deputise for the Chief Nurse asrequired and will lead on identified trust-wide projects as agreed with the Chief Nurse.
- Provide the professional leadership and development of registered nurses and nursing posts across the organisation.
- Will provide the clinical oversight, advice, leadership and to set the standards of patient care Across the Trust.
- To lead on projects through a Quality Improvement approach and ensure that the clinical services are improving quality of care and patient experience on a continuous basis, and reporting improvements through to board.
- To analyse data across all systems to inform the areas of practice improvement and develop programme/projects to lead on these areas.
- Will support the Trust in working towards a Total Quality System management.
- The DDoN will set a strategy for service transformation and improved standards of care across all services with the Chief Nurse.
- Work in close partnership and in the senior nurse leadership role with the other Heads of Nursing to ensure that all patient environments are fit for purpose in terms of meeting statutory requirements in relation to cleanliness, safety and staffing.
- The DDoNs Trust wide portfolio will support with achieving consistent, effective governance arrangements throughout A&UC, aligning with the Governance department, ensuring regulatory compliance, Health & Safety team and ensuring compliance across the other Service lines.
- They will ensure thatsystems are in place for the recruitment and induction of nurses entering the service and take a leading role inthe education, training and professional development of the nursing workforce.
- They will work closely with the other Heads of Nursing to review, refresh and implement theNursing Framework to strengthen, standardise and make more consistent the nursing contribution toservice users recovery through inter-professional working.
- Will ensure that anti racism and Health inequalities is embedded in all aspects of leadership and clinical care.
All public facing roles require a proportionate level of English language proficiency for written and verbal communication and the Trust is required to verify results of certain English language competency tests relied upon. When the fluency duty is met by the provision of a sign language interpreter, the interpreter should be registered with the National Registers of Communication Professionals working with Deaf and Deafblind People (NRCPD).