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To support the Head of Nursing and Quality to drive the programme for quality and professional standards across the Psychological Medicine and Older Adults Directorate ensuring that the delivery of consistently high quality care consistent with CQC fundamental standards, safeguarding principles, Trust values and Trust and Operational Directorate Strategic Ambitions.
The Deputy Head of Nursing and Quality will have delegated responsibility for the quality of nursing across the Specialist and Older Adults pathways and will work within agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, controls and constraints. The applicant needs to be a registered mental health nurse.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the job are to support the Head of Nursing and Quality in the duties below:
- Strategic professional leadership and practice standards.
- Service Transformation.
- Quality Assurance.
- Professional Advice and Senior Leadership Responsibilities.
- Nursing Workforce Development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To support the Head of Nursing and Quality to drive the programme for quality and professional standards across PMOA Directorate ensuring that the delivery of consistently high quality care consistent with CQC fundamental standards, safeguarding principles, Trust values and Trust and Operational Directorate Strategic Ambitions.
The Deputy Head of Nursing and Quality will have delegated responsibility for the quality of nursing across the Operational Directorate and will work within agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, controls and constraints.
The main duties of the job are to support the Head of Nursing and Quality in the duties below:
- Strategic professional leadership and practice standards.
- Service Transformation.
- Quality Assurance.
- Professional Advice and Senior Leadership Responsibilities.
- Nursing Workforce Development.
Find attached detailed job description and person specification
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Anticipating patients’ needs and designing, promoting or supporting the delivery of services that exceed patient, carer and patient’s representative expectation.
- In depth problem solving - Solving difficult problems through careful and systematic evaluation of information, possible alternatives and consequences
- Proven ability to collaborate constructively with internal partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working.
Desirable
- Understanding of safer staffing, workforce planning, establishment reviews and nursing workforce metrics.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your management and clinical teams.
- Demonstrable ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
- Engaging team in the strategic direction and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback.
- Evidence of leading or contributing to clinical governance, audits, risk management, quality assurance, CQC preparedness, incident learning and improvement plans.
- Experience managing senior staff, supporting performance, addressing professional standards, and providing visible nursing leadership
Desirable
- Relevant experience across services such as older adults, autism, eating disorders, perinatal, psychosis, neurorehabilitation or psychological medicine.
- Evidence of developing matrons, ward managers or senior nurses through coaching, supervision or leadership development
Skills/Values
Essential
- Able to write reports, present assurance information, engage senior stakeholders and communicate clearly with staff, service users and carers.
- Demonstrates compassion, integrity, accountability, inclusivity and commitment to high-quality care.
Desirable
- Evidence of promoting psychological safety, openness, learning and continuous improvement within teams.
- Shows professional curiosity, reflective practice and willingness to learn from feedback, incidents and lived experience.
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Evidence of recent continuing professional development (Demonstrates relevant post-registration development in leadership, quality, governance, safeguarding, patient safety or service improvement)
Desirable
- Master’s Degree or equivalent
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This advert is for Deputy Head of Nursing and Quality with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Nurse (adult and children) role. The advertised salary is £75,328 - £86,114 per annum inclusive of HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 28 Jul 2026.
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