Nursing & Professions Lead

Job summary

Main duties of the job

This role is offered at Band 8b subject to Job Matching

• Maintain a highly visible presence, role modelling best practice and conducting guiding and observational sessions with frontline staff and patients.
• Remain clinically skilled and competent, enhancing expertise in mental health, learning disability, and non-medical prescribing.
• Devise and deliver with the Deputy Director of Nursing a Trust Implementation Plan for nursing quality and professional standards.
• Lead and establish clinical links with stakeholders and providers, promoting and assuring clinical quality as outlined in national guidance.
• Lead on NICE Guidance, developing and implementing Trust-wide policies, guidelines, and protocols.
• Identify healthcare issues, develop actions and provide high-quality reports on recommended changes.
• Advise and lead on strategy for all patient needs, maintaining a high profile at organisational forums.
• Work collaboratively with managers and clinical leaders to ensure and monitor high-quality care.
• Work independently day-to-day, consistently role modelling professional, supportive interactions.
• Support audits, patient safety initiatives, and the embedding of Care Quality Commission Nursing Fundamentals.
• Use intelligence to assess care quality, identify risks, ensure mitigation, and monitor implementation.
• Provide expert support to the Risk Team and Patient Safety Lead.
• Oversee FIT Testing in inpatient areas, ensuring robust systems for Health, Safety and Security Committee reporting.

Job responsibilities

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.