Job summary
As an Assistant Director of Nursing you will be a part of the senior leadership team for Jameson Division which is predominantly a mental health, LD and perinatal service.
The Division operates across Central and North West London covering the boroughs of
- Brent
- Harrow
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Westminster
- We cover Learning Disabilities in the community across the division with an inpatient site in Kingswood
- We are responsible for all CNWL London based Perinatal services, including an inpatient site at Park Royal in Brent
There are two Assistant Directors of Nursing within the division and whilst the post holder will cover all areas, they will predominantly be responsible for care and quality in Brent, Harrow, LD and Perinatal.
Reporting to the Director of Nursing, you will work closely with our nursing teams and other health professionals to provide high-quality and innovative care. You will be an exceptional nurse leader with a proven track record in senior nursing roles and a passion for developing and advancing practice. You will demonstrate a commitment to the highest standards of care and patient experience and the ability to lead improvement and innovation. You must be a registered mental health nurse and have a good understanding of service delivery and project management.
You will be expected to travel across our various sites in London, but office base will be Central London.
Main duties of the job
The Assistant Director of Nursing will provide strong, visible professional leadership within the Division. Focused on ensuring the improvement of patient outcomes and experiences, the Assistant Director will:
- Ensure strategies are in place to deliver measurable and sustainable improvements in quality, safety and patient experience in line with local and national best practice standards;
- Contribute to the clinical governance agenda often taking the lead to ensure that robust systems are in place within an improvement focused infrastructure;
- Be responsible for developing, implementing and evaluating innovative models of care delivery
- Efficiently and effectively manage resources and hold budgets;
- Develop and build the professional workforce in line with service needs;
- Ensure a quality placement learning experience for all nursing students and effective preceptorship for newly registered nurses
- Develop, implement and evaluate innovative models of care delivery:
- Work with nursing colleagues across the Division to deliver the CNWL nursing strategy
- Deputise for the Director of Nursing.
About us
Reporting directly to the Director of Nursing and working in partnership with ADoNs and Divisional Directors of Nursing, you will also be responsible for developing and implementing the Trust Nursing Strategy, expanding nursing practice, standards, research, clinical leadership and shaping the future nursing workforce.
Within the division, you will be working alongside another Assistant Director of Nursing to provide leadership and direction for the division ensuring the delivery of high quality, safe and effective services. You will support the DoN with the professional leadership of nursing across the division, implementing the Trust nursing strategy at a divisional level and driving standards of excellent clinical practice across services.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main responsibility of the post is to raise standards of professional clinical practice across the Division. The post will work closely with Lead Nurses, Clinical Directors, Clinical Education Partners and therapy leads in order to deliver new innovative models of care, drive up quality and patient experience and improve nursing services across the division.
The post holder will offer the highest standards of professional leadership to the nursing workforce in the Division. Working with the Director of Nursing the Assistant Director of Nursing takes an active lead in the development and delivery of clinical and professional standards as well as the development of nursing leadership capacity.
They will advise the Divisional management team and work collaboratively with the Education team and relevant professionals. This will be in line with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, resource controls and constraints and will contribute to delivering Divisional objectives for strategy for services within the Division as a whole, and the Trust Nursing Strategy. The post holder will support the Divisional Management Team to successfully maintain and expand its business. This will include representing the division at commissioning and contracting forums.
The Assistant Director of Nursing will work with relevant community and Trust colleagues to develop and deliver the strategy for nursing. They oversee key areas such as workforce, Non-medical prescribing, quality, patient experience and nursing education.
The post holder will also agree a portfolio of areas and projects to lead on, as consistent with the grade and role; agreed with the Director of Nursing on an annual basis.
Interviews will take place in person on the 1st February 2024
For further information please contact Kim Cox, Director of Nursing, at kcox@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main responsibility of the post is to raise standards of professional clinical practice across the Division. The post will work closely with Lead Nurses, Clinical Directors, Clinical Education Partners and therapy leads in order to deliver new innovative models of care, drive up quality and patient experience and improve nursing services across the division.
The post holder will offer the highest standards of professional leadership to the nursing workforce in the Division. Working with the Director of Nursing the Assistant Director of Nursing takes an active lead in the development and delivery of clinical and professional standards as well as the development of nursing leadership capacity.
They will advise the Divisional management team and work collaboratively with the Education team and relevant professionals. This will be in line with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, resource controls and constraints and will contribute to delivering Divisional objectives for strategy for services within the Division as a whole, and the Trust Nursing Strategy. The post holder will support the Divisional Management Team to successfully maintain and expand its business. This will include representing the division at commissioning and contracting forums.
The Assistant Director of Nursing will work with relevant community and Trust colleagues to develop and deliver the strategy for nursing. They oversee key areas such as workforce, Non-medical prescribing, quality, patient experience and nursing education.
The post holder will also agree a portfolio of areas and projects to lead on, as consistent with the grade and role; agreed with the Director of Nursing on an annual basis.
Interviews will take place in person on the 1st February 2024
For further information please contact Kim Cox, Director of Nursing, at kcox@nhs.net
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Senior Nurse with significant management and leadership experience at a senior level
- Masters level qualification or working towards or equivalent experience
- First Level Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
Essential
- Broad experience of providing leadership across the profession
- Broad clinical experience relevant to the post
- Track record of managing complex issues
- Evidence of whole systems thinking
- Delivering change by influencing others
- Track record of managing complex issues
- Evidence of whole systems thinking
- Evidence of working across professional and organisational boundaries, and working with multiple stakeholders
- Evidence of implementing significant organisational change
- Demonstrable understanding of relevant national strategy/ policy and how this relates to the service
- Experience in education, practice development or workforce development
Desirable
- Experience of working collaboratively with other professions and partner organisations
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Excellent leadership qualities
- Strong, open, participative leadership style which instils confidence & is positive
- Ability to communicate vision and inspire
- The political awareness, tact and diplomacy required to establish credibility & good working relationships with colleagues & external organisations
- Ability to focus on problems and implement pragmatic solutions
- Ability to provide high quality, impartial, consistent advice to managers and clinical colleagues
- Ability to handle difficult or contentious issues with colleagues
- Ability to manage rapid and sustained change
- Team working, including collaboration and delegation
- Commitment to continuous self-development
Desirable
- Positive attitude to business development within a competitive arena
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of recent health policy and NHS systems reform and professional issues
- Understanding of professional guidance, medical policy and relevant regulations and statutes
- An understanding of the education, training and workforce agenda for nurses and other non-medical trainees
- An understanding of the equal opportunities issues for a diverse Division spanning a variety of services over a wide geography
- Broad understanding of the clinical governance agenda
- An understanding of the equal opportunities issues for a diverse Division spanning a variety of services over a wide geography
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Senior Nurse with significant management and leadership experience at a senior level
- Masters level qualification or working towards or equivalent experience
- First Level Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
Essential
- Broad experience of providing leadership across the profession
- Broad clinical experience relevant to the post
- Track record of managing complex issues
- Evidence of whole systems thinking
- Delivering change by influencing others
- Track record of managing complex issues
- Evidence of whole systems thinking
- Evidence of working across professional and organisational boundaries, and working with multiple stakeholders
- Evidence of implementing significant organisational change
- Demonstrable understanding of relevant national strategy/ policy and how this relates to the service
- Experience in education, practice development or workforce development
Desirable
- Experience of working collaboratively with other professions and partner organisations
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Excellent leadership qualities
- Strong, open, participative leadership style which instils confidence & is positive
- Ability to communicate vision and inspire
- The political awareness, tact and diplomacy required to establish credibility & good working relationships with colleagues & external organisations
- Ability to focus on problems and implement pragmatic solutions
- Ability to provide high quality, impartial, consistent advice to managers and clinical colleagues
- Ability to handle difficult or contentious issues with colleagues
- Ability to manage rapid and sustained change
- Team working, including collaboration and delegation
- Commitment to continuous self-development
Desirable
- Positive attitude to business development within a competitive arena
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of recent health policy and NHS systems reform and professional issues
- Understanding of professional guidance, medical policy and relevant regulations and statutes
- An understanding of the education, training and workforce agenda for nurses and other non-medical trainees
- An understanding of the equal opportunities issues for a diverse Division spanning a variety of services over a wide geography
- Broad understanding of the clinical governance agenda
- An understanding of the equal opportunities issues for a diverse Division spanning a variety of services over a wide geography
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
