# MRP - Deputy Director of Nursing Clinical Quality (MH/LDA) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS England. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mrp-deputy-director-of-nursing-clinical-quality-mhlda/a05d8dc2-0c3a-40c1-b4ee-b216c5878e47 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mrp-deputy-director-of-nursing-clinical-quality-mhlda/a05d8dc2-0c3a-40c1-b4ee-b216c5878e47.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS England - **Location:** Any office across the Midlands, B2 4HQ, West Yorkshire - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Director of nursing - **Grade:** Band 9 - **Salary:** £112,782 - £129,783 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (40% office working required) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:59.999Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-14T13:30:38.903Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/Any_office_across_Midlands/NHS_England/Nursing_Midwifery/Nursing_Midwifery-v8305937 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8305937?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.england.nhs.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview This pivotal role will provide strategic and professional nursing leadership to influence and improve the quality and safety of healthcare across the Midlands. This is a high-profile role with significant responsibility for supporting NHS England's statutory duties in relation to quality oversight, patient safety and clinical effectiveness across Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), NHS providers and commissioned services. You will act as the principal nursing relationship manager for an agreed portfolio of providers and systems, offering expert advice, constructive challenge and support influencing system-wide transformation and supporting delivery of the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, NHS Quality Strategy. This role will also play a critical leadership role in supporting the delivery of quality oversight of Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism services across the Midlands. The postholder will provide professional leadership for Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism (MH/LDA) quality oversight and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) agenda you will work with systems and providers to strengthen quality governance, improve patient safety, reduce unwarranted variation and support sustainable service transformation, while maintaining oversight of quality and safety across a wider portfolio. ### Main duties of the job The work will include but not limited to the following key aspects: - Lead quality improvement and oversight for Professional leadership Lead p for Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism services and SEND and strengthen leadership capacity and capability across systems and providers. - Lead quality oversight, assurance and improvement across the agreed provider and ICB portfolio, applying national quality and oversight frameworks to ensure services are safe, effective and person-centred and that risks are identified, escalated and addressed. - Act as the principal nursing relationship manager for an agreed portfolio of ICBs and providers, building trusted relationships and engaging directly with Board Directors, Chief Nursing Officers, Medical Directors and other stakeholders. - Use data, evidence, intelligence and regulatory insight to identify emerging quality and safety concerns, reduce unwarranted variation, scrutinise improvement plans and ensure risks are managed, escalated and resolved. - Support providers and systems to deliver sustained improvements in quality, safety, patient experience and outcomes, resulting in better care for patients and their families. - Work collaboratively with regional and national colleagues, regulators, commissioners and wider partners to align priorities and enable system-wide improvement. - Deputise for the Director of Nursing (Quality Oversight) as required. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We are looking for experienced and credible senior nursing leader with a strong track record of leading large-scale change, quality oversight and improvement and system leadership within complex healthcare environments. Working closely with provider boards, Integrated Care Boards and regional and national colleagues, you will identify and respond to quality and safety risks, support sustainable improvement and help translate national priorities into better outcomes and experiences for patients, families and communities. You will lead major programmes, manage resources and develop strong partnerships across organisational boundaries. A Mental Health Nursing qualification and active registration are essential, alongside a strong record of delivering strategic change, quality improvement and effective system leadership. You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents. For further details / informal visits contact: jacqueline.barnes10@nhs.net ### 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 ### Qualifications **Essential** - Clinical qualification and extensive experience, current clinical nursing registration with appropriate professional body - Mental Health Nursing qualification with current registration - Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area **Desirable** - Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects ### Values and Behaviours **Essential** - Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do - Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others - Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations - Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness - Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values. ### Knowledge and experience **Essential** - In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time of the regulatory frameworks - In depth knowledge and experience of managing complex professional regulatory issues - Knowledge and experience of working across complex Systems - Knowledge of quality assurance and improvement methods and their application - Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to Nursing and Midwifery. - Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification. - Significant evidence of continued professional development - Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment - Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment. - Experience of leading major change initiatives with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment - Member of a relevant professional body. ### Skills Capabilities & Attributes **Essential** - Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting - Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment with knowledge of and experience in handling media relations - Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required - Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills - Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly - Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management - Demonstrable ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities - Demonstrable ability to use autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation ## Documents - [jd (pdf, 360.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10662026) - [functional requirements (pdf, 69.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10662027) - [guide to completing your application (docx, 42.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1939) - [nhse - verification of id and rtw guide (pdf, 306.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=996) - [note for existing nhs employees applying for fixed term vacancies (docx, 26.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2084) ## 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.