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Director of Nursing - Mental Health
The closing date is 17 July 2025
The role of the Director of Nursing (DoN) is a key senior leadership position, ensuring excellent quality outcomes and experience for patients across all sites within Cardiff & Vale University Health Board.
The DoN will lead on the delivering of the national nursing vision using prudent healthcare principles ensuring that the vision, values and strategic themes of the UHB are translated into clear integrated goals.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Main duties of the job
The DoN will have delegated accountability and responsibility through the Executive Director of Nursing for ensuring professional leadership and governance of clinical services.
The DoN will create an open, just culture where teams are confident and skilled in providing regular, constructive feedback, where issues can be raised and solved openly, leading to a productive people centred solution focused working environment.
The DoN will actively establish and build a wide range of effective networks, contacts and partnerships within and outside the UHB which are used to inform and influence the direction of families, patients and service users.
The DoNs will lead an organisational approach to share and learn from successes and failures, staff and user feedback using an evidence and research data set to challenge and improve quality care and experience. Responsible as an integral part of the role for initiating and developing research and development programmes which must support the UHB's broader objectives.
The DoN will be responsible for the provision of strategic leadership and management of staff throughout the Clinical Board and ensure the safe, high quality and efficient management of all services within the responsibility and accountability.
About us
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.
Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.
Job responsibilities
Develop a culture where safe and high-quality patient/citizen centred care is consistently delivered by those working in nursing with a focus on innovation and continuous improvements in the quality of service delivery.
Ensure that effective risk management and systems of governance are in place for nursing (clinical, financial, staff, audit and information) through proactive management of the services.
Ensuring that the Health and Care Standards are understood and embedded within service delivery, including communication,delivery and monitoring of ongoing performance.
Responsible for establishing and maintaining systems for assessing families/patients and nurses views on the quality of services provided and for involving patients/clients, their families/carers.
Work in collaboration to introduce the necessary changes for implementing the Duty of Quality.
create a culture of quality within areas of responsibility
focus on improving the quality of health services and outcomes for the local, regional, All Wales population on an ongoing basis and actively monitor progress of improvement and routinely share this information with the local, regional, All Wales population
Lead the on-going development of PROMs (Patient Reported Outcome Measures) and PREMs (Patient Reported Experience Measures) in the services within their responsibility.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
* Highly relevant specialist clinical knowledge relating to sphere of responsibilities
* Educated to Master's level
* Mental Health registration
Experience
* Significant post registration experience at a very senior nursing level
* Extensive experience of leading and successfully implementing service improvement/redesign programmes in a multi-disciplinary environment/ across a range of services
* Proven ability to work across organisational boundaries, develop networks and alliances, project a vision and obtain ownership and commitment from stakeholders
* Developing and delivering governance systems including management and mitigation of risk
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.
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