Overview
Borough Lead Nurse.
The Borough Lead Nurse is a key member of the Directorate Management Team who is accountable for delivering nursing leadership and services of the highest quality in the Borough. The successful applicant will be someone whose focus is on how the needs of service users can be met through the provision of high-quality nursing services. You will be interested in the lives of people with mental health needs and how good services can make a difference to the quality and well-being of those people. You will actively seek to work with service users to that end.
Tower Hamlets is a highly diverse area of London with considerable social deprivation. Professionals work closely with service users to improve and develop services. The Trust has achieved excellent service ratings and as a Foundation Trust is committed to strengthening the capacity of our membership whilst developing the expertise of our workforce and our partnerships with external organisations. You will need to demonstrate your partnership experience, your practical abilities in managing people and resources and your capacity to inspire, lead and drive improvements in our nursing and wider services.
Main duties
To provide professional leadership, manage and support nursing staff to enable improved inpatient care, develop nursing practice and clinical leadership at a local level.
The post holder will be the responsible lead for local induction of nurses entering the service and overseeing the education, training and professional development of the nursing work force for the designated area of responsibility. Support the Director of Nursing for London to provide visible nursing leadership, advice and support to nurses in the borough.
Ensure that all relevant statutes and professional guidance on nursing are reflected in local strategies, procedures and plans and that all nurses work within these statutory and regulatory frameworks.
The Post Holder will be responsible for budgets for the Tower Hamlets in-patient units that include 3 older adults wards and 2 PICU wards for men and women.
The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing a performance management structure for all nursing staff with clearly defined, measurable objectives and will work with the Director of Nursing for London to keep the Borough's governance team informed on all emerging issues and progress on nursing performance and national targets across the borough. And strengthen the inter-professional working within the borough and the interface between the in-patients and community services
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Details
Date posted: 18 September 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8c
Salary: £80,025 to £91,336 a year per annum Inc HCA
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 363-TH7474752
Job locations: Tower Hamlets Centre for Mental Health, Management Offices, Ground Floor, Burdett House, Bancroft Road, Tower Hamlets, E1 4DG
Job responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Person Specification
Education, training and qualifications
* Registered Mental Health Nurse
* Completed Clinical Supervision Training
* Degree or equivalent experience
* Completed a recognised Leadership development programme
Desirable
* General Nursing Qualification Higher Degree Management course (e.g. CMS, DMS, MBA).
Previous Experience
* Proven experience at a senior management level, including managing change and introducing new ways of working for mental health nurses
* Demonstration of sound and effective leadership skills
* Demonstrable experience of working with budgets and using financial and activity information to support the management of services
* Experience of interpreting and analysing highly complex information and managing high complex circumstances
* Experience of undertaking work requiring intense concentration in unpredictable circumstances with frequent interruptions.
* Partnership working with other statutory and voluntary agencies
* Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
* Experience of, or awareness of specific issues of working in a culturally diverse inner city area
* Experience of preparing and presenting reports at Executive group level
* Able to evidence ability to change practice, culture and outcomes of large nursing teams.
* Experience of working with patients who have severe personality disorders
* Experience of working across all directorates, able to enthuse and inspire others using advanced communication, presentation skills
Desirable
* Project management
Skills & Abilities
* Able to facilitate multidisciplinary debriefing, critical analysis meetings
* Able to take the lead in highly volatile situations
* Able to lead on integration of service development, theory and practice
* Able to provide expert mental health nursing advice to the whole service
* Able to manage time, so that deadlines are met
* Able to manage change constructively
* Able to negotiate constructively with all professions at all levels
* Able to analyse and solve problems in a professional nursing context
* Able to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team
* Able to develop and implement multidisciplinary training packages using emotional intelligence, transactional analysis and reflective practice framework
Desirable
* Computer skills
Knowledge
* National performance targets for inpatient wards
* Understanding of healthcare governance framework and its application in practice
* Research, audit and quality improvement methodologies and their application
* Theory and concepts associated with mental health practice and its application
* System & Learning Theory
* Principles of managing change
* Current policy context and the implications for mental health nursing
* Contemporary developments in mental health nursing
Desirable
* Current professional developments in nursing and education
Regulatory and sponsorship information
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants. UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Tower Hamlets Centre for Mental Health, Management Offices, Ground Floor, Burdett House, Bancroft Road, Tower Hamlets, E1 4DG
Employer's website: https://www.elft.nhs.uk/
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