Associate Director of Nursing

Associate Director of Nursing
- Community Clinical Care Group

Band 8c
- North London NHS Foundation Trust

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional Associate Director of Nursing to join our senior leadership team.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced nursing leader to influence the delivery of high-quality, compassionate and innovative mental health community services across a large and diverse Care Group.

Working in partnership with the Managing Director, Clinical Director and Director of Nursing, you will provide strategic nursing leadership, ensuring excellence in quality, patient safety, workforce development and clinical governance.

You will play a key role in delivering our ambitious strategic objectives, supporting continuous improvement and creating a culture where staff can thrive and patients receive outstanding care.

About the role

You will:

• Provide professional leadership for nursing services across the Care Group.
• Lead the delivery of quality, safety and patient experience programmes.
• Support operational and workforce performance in conjunction with operational leads.
• Drive innovation, quality improvement and evidence-based practice.
• Build strong partnerships across the Trust, Integrated Care Board and wider stakeholder community.
• Champion equity, inclusion and compassionate leadership.
• Contribute as a senior member of the Care Group Senior Leadership Team.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a registered nurse with substantial senior leadership experience of working within mental health services.
• Has a successful track record of leading large-scale service improvement.
• Demonstrates outstanding nursing leadership and professional credibility.
• Has experience working within complex healthcare systems.
• Can build high-performing teams and engage staff at all levels.
• Is passionate about improving outcomes, experiences and opportunities for service users and staff.

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Master's degree or equivalent experience.
• Further professional qualification.
• Quality Improvement Qualification.

• Significant senior nurse experience in an NHS Trust, operating at Band 8a and above.
• Previous experience responsible for nursing services.
• Experience of increasing staff engagement and motivation to improve performance.
• Experience of leading service or transformational change.

• Leading large multidisciplinary teams.
• Understanding of current Regulatory requirement.
• Delivering quality improvement at scale.
• Workforce Transformation.
• Patient safety programmes.
• Managing organisational change.

• Experience of working in a clinical or management position in mental health service.
• Analytical ability: capacity to process detailed information rapidly.
• Cultural flexibility: ability to develop an in‑depth understanding of a wide range of organisational and community cultures, developing plans and strategies with all stakeholders.
• Experience of setting objective measurements and developing and monitoring systems for performance management and improvement.
• Develops the potential of teams to do their best and to access opportunities for career development.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£88,250 to £100,355 a year per annum including HCAS