Job summary
Interview date: 18 March 2025
Derbyshire Healthcare is looking for a Deputy Director of Nursing and Patient Experience to join our Trust.
The Deputy Director of Nursing will provide strong, visible professional leadership within the organisation. Focused on ensuring the improvement of patient outcomes and experiences, providing professional nursing leadership and leading, on behalf of the Executive Director of Nursing and Patient Experience, the Trust's CQC governance and regulatory focus.
You will as an expert in practice provide clinical and technical advice to mental services and ensure strategies are in place to deliver measurable and sustainable improvement in quality and safety in line with local and national best practice standards.
Main duties of the job
This role will provide strategic and Directorate operational leadership to Nursing and Allied professionals wide-ranging professional leadership and governance including direct support to Nursing, AHPs, Associate Clinical Directors, Clinical Operational Managers, named supervisees within the Trust and will work with the Managers and Senior Clinicians in the Trust to ensure robust Quality Governance.
The post holder will ensure arrangements are in place to support the delivery of Allied Health Professional and Nursing Strategies, and ensuring that standards are met in terms of the management of complaints, and patient safety incidents, ensuring a proactive risk management and shared learning, in addition to setting clinical standards and safe staffing and capacity models in all areas.
You must have current Nurse registration with the NMC (RMN or RNLD) and have a successful track record in the leadership and management of Nursing and AHP services.
Experience of working in Mental Health, Learning Disabilities or Children's services is essential and alongside a track record of actively promoting and advancing the voice of service users and wider patient experience agenda (including co-production.)
You will also be able to demonstrate an ability to manage and promote diversity in your own and others day to day practise.
About us
Our Trust provides mental health, learning disability and autism services across Derby and Derbyshire, alongside services for children and young people in Derby and Southern Derbyshire. We also offer a range of specialist services including substance misuse, gambling harms and eating disorders services. We have a strong organisational identity and are very proud of our values-led approach to healthcare.
We have a diverse range of colleagues, including over 1,550 nursing and AHP colleagues, and our latest staff survey results tell us that people find Derbyshire Healthcare a good place to work and receive care. This role will play an important part inensuring we create an inclusive and supportive environment which reinforces our Team Derbyshire Healthcare approach.
Job description
Job responsibilities
I hope you are excited by the opportunities that this role presents and that you will be inspired to apply to join our team.
Please be aware we are not looking to work with recruitment agencies on this appointment.
Please see the job description attached for the full list of responsibilities. Please ensure you review the full details before submitting your application.
Please ensure that your application covers your full employment history and the supporting information outlines your motivation for applying for this position, including the knowledge, skills and experience you have that will make you suitable for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
I hope you are excited by the opportunities that this role presents and that you will be inspired to apply to join our team.
Please be aware we are not looking to work with recruitment agencies on this appointment.
Please see the job description attached for the full list of responsibilities. Please ensure you review the full details before submitting your application.
Please ensure that your application covers your full employment history and the supporting information outlines your motivation for applying for this position, including the knowledge, skills and experience you have that will make you suitable for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current Nurse registration with the NMC (RMN or RNLD)
- Master's Degree or can demonstrate equivalent level of knowledge and skills gained through experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Successful track record in the leadership and management of clinical, AHP and nursing services
- Experience of leading Clinical Governance processes and the Quality Improvement agenda
- Demonstrable experience of leading clinical innovation or leading change within clinical practice
- Experience of working in Mental Health, Learning Disabilities or Childrens service
- Actively promoting and advancing the voice of service users and wider patient experience agenda (including co-production)
- Knowledge and understanding of the current NHS agenda and policies
- In-depth knowledge of the challenges facing Mental Health Trusts
- Comprehensive knowledge of patient safety systems and processes including clinical risk and safeguarding vulnerable people
- Detailed knowledge and experience of the management of serious untoward incidents at organisational level including the execution of improvement action and sharing of learning practice
Desirable
- Experience of applying QI methodology, research and Clinical Audit to improve practice and ability to evidence change
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current Nurse registration with the NMC (RMN or RNLD)
- Master's Degree or can demonstrate equivalent level of knowledge and skills gained through experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Successful track record in the leadership and management of clinical, AHP and nursing services
- Experience of leading Clinical Governance processes and the Quality Improvement agenda
- Demonstrable experience of leading clinical innovation or leading change within clinical practice
- Experience of working in Mental Health, Learning Disabilities or Childrens service
- Actively promoting and advancing the voice of service users and wider patient experience agenda (including co-production)
- Knowledge and understanding of the current NHS agenda and policies
- In-depth knowledge of the challenges facing Mental Health Trusts
- Comprehensive knowledge of patient safety systems and processes including clinical risk and safeguarding vulnerable people
- Detailed knowledge and experience of the management of serious untoward incidents at organisational level including the execution of improvement action and sharing of learning practice
Desirable
- Experience of applying QI methodology, research and Clinical Audit to improve practice and ability to evidence change
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).
