Associate Director of Nursing Community Health Services

Job overview

We are seeking an exceptional individual to join our directorate team as Associate Director of Nursing to help us lead and improve the delivery of community services in Oxfordshire. This is a pivotal role overseeing the quality-of-care delivery in our diverse services, driving improvements in quality, safety, patient experience and outcomes for our staff and diverse population. Reporting to the Clinical Director, with key professional reporting lines to the Trusts Chief Nursing Officer, you will be a key member of the directorate senior leadership team, providing strategic leadership and oversight of the quality agenda. You will ensure that all services are safe, effective and person centred, with robust systems in place to identify risk, drive improvement and deliver assurance.

This role offers a significant opportunity for a strong, credible and resilient nursing leader to operate at a senior level, developing system partnerships beyond the Trust whilst potentially developing towards future Chief Nursing Officer role.

Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.

Main duties of the job

The Associate Director of Nursing is responsible for the professional standards of nursing within the directorate. Their personal responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing a framework for clinical governance and quality within the directorate.
• Lead on the implementation of Quality improvement and learning from incidents and provide professional leadership of nursing and care colleagues.
• Leading on workforce planning (including role development and advanced clinical practice).
• Providing professional leadership within System partnerships including Integrated Locality working.
• Growing the capability and capacity of R&D and QI by expanding the use of QI methodology and securing the link between QI and the operational and clinical challenges we face in the directorate.
• Ensuring the directorate and wider Trust preparedness and delivery of End-of-Life care is fit for purpose.
• Lead QI  and co-design with partners whilst developing neighbourhood and locality working.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.