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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join GMMH as an ADNQ. This post covers the portfolio for specialist services which comprises Children and Young People inpatient and community services, Perinatal Services, Early Intervention Teams, Homelessness and Addiction services as well as Talking Therapies, GM University, Deaf Mental Health, Specialist Psychology and Eating Disorder Services.
As Associate Director of Nursing and Quality (ADNQ) you will work in partnership with the Associate Director of Operations (ADO) and Associate Medical Director (MDO) . Together you will ensure the effective leadership to support the requirements of the Care Group. You will need to be a strong leader with a mental health or learning disability nursing background who understands the challenges and strengths of working in these very specialist services to deliver care. You will have gravitas and demonstrate strong influencing and facilitation skills. As a senior leader for the profession, you will advocate for nursing and ensure the inclusion of clinical professions in the work of the care group trio. Strong relationships and inclusion of psychology and allied health professionals is a core requirement. You will need to be creative and flexible and participate in the future development of the Trust.
Main duties of the job
Please note that interviews will take place in person in Manchester.
As a member of the leadership team, the post holder is responsible for ensuring services within the Care Group comply with CQC registration requirements, national and local performance targets, annual business plan priorities and internal governance processes. Working with the Chief Nurse and the leadership teams within the other Care Groups, the post holder will ensure people with lived experience and their carers have a strong voice in decision making and service development and will embed continuous improvement throughout all services to ensure service users and carers experience the best possible care. The post holder is responsible for ensuring mechanisms are in place for employee involvement and engagement across the Care Group in order to develop an open and inclusive culture with a focus on employee health and wellbeing, equality and diversity. The post holder is also jointly responsible for maximising the use of resources within the Care Group by leading on transformation priorities, service improvements, quality improvements and efficiency programmes Ensuring accountability and governance is in place within the Care Group and support delivery of the GMMH strategic objectives and statutory requirements. The post holder will be a member of the GMMH Gold on-call rota.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff benefits
- Pay Enhancements
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Excellent pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- Blue Light Card Discounts
- fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Advance knowledge of priorities in Health Care, quality and current clinical/professional issues.
- Understanding of National Strategies and their application for Nursing and Therapies.
- Expert knowledge of compliance, clinical governance, risk management, improving patient safety, experience and clinical effectiveness.
- Well-developed leadership and management skills.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Ability to work across professional and organisational boundaries and experience of working with commissioners.
- Ability to work in partnership with a range of people including people who access our services and carers.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior clinical management/professional leadership experience in a large complex NHS organisation.
- Evidence of success in the management of change in a multi-agency context.
- Evidence of delivering high quality clinical and nursing services.
- Experience of working in a multi-culturally sensitive clinical practice.
- Ability to lead/develop policies and procedures.
- Experience of managing organization-wide programmes of quality risk/service improvement.
- Project Management experience.
- Budget management experience.
- Ability to interpret national policy and design and implement complex strategies.
- Experience of leading development and implementation of governance assurance processes.
- Demonstrable record of successfully delivering valuer improvement programmes.
Desirable
- Evidence of national presentations and publications.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to manage complex situations and provide a solution.
- Proven ability to consistently achieve results and challenging targets.
- Excellent report writing and data analysis skills.
- Proven ability to lead improvement and audit activity through staff and service user/carer participation.
- Ability to hold others to account and manage demanding programmes of work.
- Values driven and self-aware.
- Proven leadership, influencing and negotiating skills with an open participative style.
- Ability motivate others and work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Able to deal both with multi-tasking in a complex environment as well as able to focus intense concentration on single issues for periods.
- Able to manage highly distressing or emotionally difficult information and situations and manage own emotions and be resilient.
- Professional and personal credibility.
- Strong team player willing to work flexibly.
- High effective interpersonal skills (able to communicate at any level of the organisation).
- Commitment to equal opportunity, fair access and people who access service carer empowerment.
- Ability to present complex information to different audiences.
- Ability to deal with highly sensitive situations a compassionate and caring manner.
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Current RMN or RNLD Nursing
- Master’s degree in relevant subject
- Post graduate qualification in leadership and management or equivalent portfolio of experience
- Post graduate qualification in specialist nursing practice or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Managerial qualification.
- Teaching qualification
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