Director of Nursing & Quality

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Skills

  Able to build effective relationships with clinical, operational, corporate and system partners.

• Skills

  Able to influence, negotiate and build consensus across professional, organisational and system boundaries.

• Skills

  Able to analyse and triangulate complex quality, safety, workforce, operational, patient experience and financial information, identify risk and secure appropriate action.

• Skills

  Able to interpret highly complex and sometimes conflicting information, exercise sound professional judgement and make clear recommendations where there are competing priorities, uncertainty, risk or no obvious solution.

• Skills

  Able to translate Trust strategy, national policy, regulatory requirements and professional standards into practical ACG delivery plans and measurable improvement actions.

• Skills

  Able to direct complex planning, transformation and improvement programmes, ensuring plans are evidence-based, affordable, measurable and deliverable.

• Skills

  Able to lead and support teams through change, ambiguity and operational pressure.

• Skills

  Able to chair senior meetings, present reports and provide assurance to governance forums.

• Skills

  Able to write clear, evidence-based reports, briefings, policies and improvement plans.

• Skills

  Able to use improvement methodology to deliver measurable and sustained change.

• Knowledge

  Strong understanding of nursing professional standards, NMC requirements, revalidation and professional practice governance.

• Knowledge

  Advanced understanding of NHS quality governance, patient safety, PSIRF, risk management, complaints, clinical effectiveness, regulatory assurance and the use of quality intelligence to drive improvement.

• Knowledge

  Understanding of CQC regulatory requirements and inspection preparation.

• Knowledge

  Understanding of safeguarding, infection prevention and control, patient experience and clinical effectiveness requirements in complex clinical services.

• Knowledge

  Advanced understanding of the wider NHS context, including integrated care systems, provider collaboration, national policy, workforce challenges and financial constraints.

• Knowledge

  Knowledge of how to apply equality, diversity and inclusion principles to improve patient outcomes, staff experience and service access.

• Knowledge

  Understanding of digital, data and information governance requirements, including the use of digital systems and dashboards to support quality, safety, workforce, productivity and patient experience.

• Experience

  Extensive senior nursing leadership experience in a large, complex NHS provider or comparable healthcare organisation.

• Experience

  Significant experience of leading quality, safety, patient experience and clinical governance across complex clinical services.

• Experience

  Experience of working as part of a senior leadership team with collective responsibility for quality, operational performance, workforce and finance.

• Experience

  Experience of holding senior responsibility for delegated budgets, workforce expenditure, productivity or financial improvement, with clear consideration of quality and safety impact.

• Experience

  Experience of leading nursing workforce planning, safe staffing reviews, skill mix assessment, recruitment, retention and professional development.

• Experience

  Experience of leading improvement following incidents, complaints, audits, inspections, regulatory reviews or external assurance processes.

• Experience

  Experience of analysing and interpreting complex quality, safety, workforce, operational, patient experience and financial information to identify risk, inform senior decisions and drive improvement.

• Experience

  Experience of leading education, research, innovation or evidence-based practice priorities across complex clinical services.

• Experience

  Experience of leading service planning, transformation, policy implementation or service redesign across complex clinical services.

• Experience

  Experience of providing senior professional advice on conduct, capability, performance or professional practice concerns.

• Experience

  Experience of providing assurance to senior governance forums on quality, safety, patient experience, professional standards and regulatory compliance.

• Qualifications

  First level Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.

• Qualifications

  Educated to master’s degree level in a relevant subject, or able to demonstrate equivalent senior professional knowledge and experience applied in nursing leadership, quality governance, patient safety, regulatory assurance and service improvement.

• Qualifications

  Evidence of recent and relevant continuing professional development in nursing, quality, patient safety, leadership and management.

• Additional Requirements

  Committed to improving patient care, patient experience and staff experience.

• Additional Requirements

  Demonstrates personal resilience and sound judgement, remaining effective, visible and compassionate under sustained operational pressure, scrutiny, ambiguity and competing priorities.

• Additional Requirements

  Able to work flexibly to meet service and organisational needs.

• Additional Requirements

  Able to travel between Trust sites and to external meetings as required.

• Additional Requirements

  Able to participate in senior on-call arrangements where required.