# Associate Director of Nursing > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-director-of-nursing/5c5a8878-b605-4f9c-b126-604d5ea76688 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-director-of-nursing/5c5a8878-b605-4f9c-b126-604d5ea76688.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £88,250 - £100,355 Per annum including HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-16T16:13:00.638Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/North_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health_Nursing/Mental_Health_Nursing-v8162680 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8162680?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Associate Director of Nursing – Community Clinical Care Group Band 8c- North London NHS Foundation Trust Lead Nursing Excellence. Shape Outstanding Care. Inspire Our Future. North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional Associate Director of Nursing to join our senior leadership team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced nursing leader to influence the delivery of high-quality, compassionate and innovative mental health community services across a large and diverse Care Group. Working in partnership with the Managing Director, Clinical Director and Director of Nursing, you will provide strategic nursing leadership, ensuring excellence in quality, patient safety, workforce development and clinical governance. You will play a key role in delivering our ambitious strategic objectives, supporting continuous improvement and creating a culture where staff can thrive and patients receive outstanding care. ### Main duties of the job About the role You will: - Provide professional leadership for nursing services across the Care Group. - Lead the delivery of quality, safety and patient experience programmes. - Support operational and workforce performance in conjunction with operational leads. - Drive innovation, quality improvement and evidence-based practice. - Build strong partnerships across the Trust, Integrated Care Board and wider stakeholder community. - Champion equity, inclusion and compassionate leadership. - Contribute as a senior member of the Care Group Senior Leadership Team ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We are looking for someone who: - Is a registered nurse with substantial senior leadership experience of working within mental health services. - Has a successful track record of leading large-scale service improvement. - Demonstrates outstanding nursing leadership and professional credibility. - Has experience working within complex healthcare systems. - Can build high-performing teams and engage staff at all levels. - Is passionate about improving outcomes, experiences and opportunities for service users and staff. Why join us? At North London NHS Foundation Trust, we are transforming care through collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement. We are committed to developing our people, advancing nursing practice and creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. Join us and help shape the future of mental health and community services across North London. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Leading large multidisciplinary teams - Understanding of current Regulatory requirement - Delivering quality improvement at scale - Workforce Transformation - Patient safety programmes - Managing organisational change ### Experience **Essential** - Significant senior nurse experience in an NHS Trust, operating at Band 8a and above - Previous experience responsible for nursing services - Experience of increasing staff engagement and motivation to improve performance - Experience of leading service or transformational change ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Nurse with current NMC registration - Master's degree or equivalent experience - Further professional qualification **Desirable** - NHS Leadership Academy programme - Quality Improvement Qualification ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Experience of working in a clinical or management position in mental health service - Analytical ability: capacity to process detailed information rapidly - Cultural flexibility: ability to develop an in- depth understanding of a wide range of organisational and community cultures, developing plans and strategies with all stakeholders - Experience of setting objective measurements and developing and monitoring systems for performance management and improvement - Develops the potential of teams to do their best and to access opportunities for career development ## Documents - [functional requirements (pdf, 536.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10463621) - [associate director of nursing (pdf, 320.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10463623) - [a comprehensive guide for candidates (pdf, 544.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2959) - [trac - value based recruitment guidance for candidate (pdf, 4.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2440) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.