Job overview
To support the Head of Nursing and Quality to drive the programme for Quality and professional standard across the operational directorate ensuring that the delivery of consistently high-quality care consistent with the CQC fundamental standards, Safeguarding principles, trust values, and the trust and operational directorate strategic objectives.
The Deputy Head of Nursing and Quality with the 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 resource constraints.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the job are to support the Head of Nursing and Quality in the duties below:
1. Strategic professional leadership and practice standards.
2. Service Transformation.
3. Quality Assurance.
4. Professional Advice and Senior Leadership Responsibilities.
5. Nursing Workforce Development.
Working for our organisation
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. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
6. Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
7. Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
8. We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe’
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To support the Head of Nursing and Quality to drive the programme for quality and professional standards across Lambeth 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.
The main duties of the job are to support the Head of Nursing and Quality in the duties below:
9. Strategic professional leadership and practice standards.
10. Service Transformation.
11. Quality Assurance.
12. Professional Advice and Senior Leadership Responsibilities.
13. Nursing Workforce Development.
Find attached detailed job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
14. NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse
15. Evidence of recent continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
16. Master’s Degree or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
17. Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your management and clinical teams.
18. Demonstrable ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
19. Proven ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources.
20. 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 criteria
21. Anticipating patients’ needs and designing, promoting or supporting the delivery of services that exceed patient, carer and patient’s representative expectation.
22. In depth problem solving - Solving difficult problems through careful and systematic evaluation of information, possible alternatives and consequences
23. Proven ability to collaborate constructively with internal partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working.