Job summary
Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer the Chief Nursing & Quality Officer CNQO post holder will be an Executive Director and Trustee of the charity. The post holders prime responsibility will be to work corporately with other Board members in determining and delivering the Charity's strategic plans, managing organisational performance and assuring good governance across all of the organisations functions. You will be the voice of nursing across the Charity ensuring the delivery of high quality, compassionate, evidence based nursing care across all services.
Main duties of the job
In this pivotal position, you will:
- Act as a Trustee of the Charity, ensuring that the Charity is financially sustainable and a well-run organisation.
- Act as the professional lead for Nursing across all Charity services, providing visible, strategic leadership whilst you Inspire, mentor, and develop our nursing workforce to reach their full potential
- Provide Boardlevel leadership for quality assurance, ensuring robust systems exist to monitor, measure and evidence the quality, safety and effectiveness of care.
- Provides executive oversight to all specialist nursing areas, such as physical healthcare, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, and specialist nurse roles.
- Hold executive responsibility for determining, reviewing and assuring safe and effective nursing establishment approach across all services.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with external regulators, commissioners, professional bodies and quality networks e.g., CQC, NMC, accreditation bodies.
- Oversee the clinical audit programme, ensuring it supports assurance, regulatory compliance and improvement.
- Ensures a robust approach to capturing and using patient and carer experience for improvement, whilst ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
About us
About You
You will bring
- Extensive leadership experience and evidence of achievement at senior / Executive level in a complex healthcare environment
- Expertise in quality assurance, risk management and quality improvements.
- Track record in driving organisational change through influence and leadership.
- Proven success in building high performing teams.
- Personal values aligned with St Andrews.
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
Why Join Us
This is a chance to
- Help shape the future of mental health care and drive meaningful change.
- Work with a passionate, values driven charity
- Influence organisational culture and long term strategy
- Be part of an organisation that is ambitious, supportive, and committed to excellence
Our Charity
We are St Andrew's a leading charitable provider of specialist inpatient mental health services across the UK. We are a mental health charity, and our purpose is to inspire hope for those living with complex mental health needs.
We are looking to a future with less stigma, more community support, more research and education, and we aim to be at the forefront of inspiring real change. We want to ensure we can all live in a society where everyone with complex mental health needs is heard, valued and has hope for their future.
Come and join us and support us to help people transform their lives.
Details
Date posted
23 February 2026
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience Plus package and benefits
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
B0354-26-0012
Job locations
St. Andrews
Billing Road
Northampton
NN1 5DG
Employer details
Employer name
St Andrew’s Healthcare
Address
St. Andrews
Billing Road
Northampton
NN1 5DG
Employer's website
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Employer contact details
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