Head of Nursing - Education and Development

It is an exciting time to joining the senior Nursing Team at Oxleas, where we are committed to ensuring that nurses across the Trust provide care which is of the best quality and that nurses are meeting the highest standards of practice. This role will be responsible for providing strategic direction and leadership for registered nurses and nursing associates and unregistered support workers in conjunction with the Deputy Chief Nurse.

The role provides Trust-wide professional leadership for nursing, overseeing practice improvement, education, physical health, policy development, research, workforce development, quality, safety and clinical standards.,

• Support the development, implement and monitor the Trust's nursing strategy within the Trust in discussion with the Deputy Chief Nurse.
• Deputise for the Deputy Chief Nurse as required.
• Establish standards of nursing practice and promote nursing and nursing education, research and development throughout the Trust.
• The post holder will work collaboratively with University of Greenwich and support any institute of integration work with the nursing workforce.
• The post holder will become involved with research projects as required by the Trust and report on these as required.
• Develop leadership and staff support initiatives across the Trusts nursing workforce, including Professional Nurse Advocate service and annual influenza vaccination campaign.
• Will manage and have oversight of staff supporting practice improvement, including end of life care, physical health and education and development.
• Support the planning and development of annual nursing events such as the nursing conference and the health support worker conference.
• Advise Executive Directors, Directors of Service, the Trust Board, Management Directorate teams, other clinicians and external organisations on all of the above.
• To work with and support governance structures to improve service delivery and safety.
• To work with directorates and HR on clinical competencies to ensure quality service delivery and equity across the Trust and to lead on competency frameworks across the Trust.

• Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.
  
  Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
  
  We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.
  
  We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care