Assistant Director

The Methodist Church in Britain; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Living Wage employer

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is seeking an Assistant Director to lead nursing, AHPs and quality across secure services. The role reports to the senior leadership team and sits on the ward-to-board governance framework, with a focus on patient safety, quality assurance and regulatory readiness.

Applicants must evidence senior leadership and a complex change programme through written examples.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership in a complex healthcare organisation.
• Leading complex change programmes with measurable outcomes.
• Evidence of inclusive, compassionate leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide inclusive leadership across secure services with strong governance.
• Lead safe, high-quality, patient-centred care and quality governance.
• Deliver nursing, AHP, quality and patient safety priorities in line with strategy and secure care requirements.
• Promote an open learning culture using incidents, complaints, safeguarding, audits and feedback.
• Provide assurance through quality metrics, risk review, regulatory and CQC readiness.
• Develop a safe, skilled and sustainable nursing and AHP workforce through recruitment, retention, development, establishments and rostering.
• Champion patient and carer involvement and complaints learning to shape service improvement.
• Work with partners, use data to set priorities and manage budgets.
• Undertake other duties appropriate to the grade, hours and scope of the role

Skills

Senior leadership

Governance

Patient safety

Quality improvement

Change management

Job description

This Assistant Director post leads nursing, Allied Health Professionals and quality across the secure services of Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, reporting to the Group Chief Nurse. The work centres on professional leadership of the nursing and AHP workforce alongside patient safety, quality assurance, infection prevention and control, and complaints learning. The post sits on the senior leadership team in a secured care setting, with ward-to-board governance and CQC and regulatory preparedness as key responsibilities. Applicants must evidence senior leadership and a complex change programme through written examples.

What the job involves

• Provide inclusive leadership across secure services, with strong governance, an open learning culture and an effective nursing and AHP workforce
• Lead the delivery and continuous improvement of safe, high-quality, patient-centred care, including patient safety, risk management and quality governance
• Deliver nursing, AHP, quality and patient safety priorities in line with Trust strategy, national policy, regulation and secure care requirements
• Promote an open learning culture, using insight from incidents, complaints, safeguarding, audits, inspections and feedback
• Provide assurance through quality metrics, risk review, regulatory and CQC readiness, and escalation to senior and Board-level forums
• Develop a safe, skilled and sustainable nursing and AHP workforce through recruitment, retention, development, establishments, rosters and skill mix
• Champion patient and carer involvement and complaints and PALS learning so that experience and co-production shape service improvement
• Work with clinical, corporate, commissioner, regulatory and system partners, use data to set priorities, manage budgets and deputise for senior leaders
• Undertake other duties appropriate to the grade, hours and scope of the role

What’s required

Experience

• Senior clinical, operational or professional leadership in a complex healthcare organisation, evidenced by a written example
• Leading a complex change, service improvement or transformation programme in healthcare with measurable outcomes, evidenced by a written example

Skills & knowledge

• Compassionate, inclusive and professional leadership in line with organisational values, evidenced by a written example

Nice to have

• Experience of secure, forensic, mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental or other specialist services
• Involving patients, carers or families in co-production or service improvement, with the difference it made
• Designing or developing a dashboard, quality metric or assurance report and how it supported governance or improvement

What’s offered

• Accredited Living Wage employer