Associate Director of Nursing for Quality & Safety

North London NHS Foundation Trust; Wood Green; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Associate Director of Nursing for Quality & Safety to lead across quality, patient safety and governance. You will work with senior leaders to shape strategy, strengthen incident learning, and translate insights into measurable improvements.

The role requires robust NHS leadership experience and a visible, compassionate leadership style. You will oversee governance systems, patient safety management, and family liaison activities, ensuring openness

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with current NMC registration and NHS leadership experience.
• Experience in quality surveillance, performance reporting and risk identification.
• Ability to translate complex quality data into clear priorities.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic nursing leadership across quality, safety and governance.
• Oversee incident response, learning from deaths and mortality governance.
• Lead organisational learning and continuous improvement with senior teams.
• Develop and deliver Trust quality priorities and governance frameworks.
• Engage patients, families and staff to inform improvement actions.

Skills

Senior nursing leadership

Quality governance

Patient safety

Strategic thinking

Change management

Education

NMC registered nurse

Job description

Are you an experienced senior nurse with the credibility, expertise and ambition to shape quality and patient safety across one of London's large mental health trusts? We are seeking an exceptional Associate Director of Nursing for Quality & Safety to join our senior Nursing Directorate leadership team at North London NHS Foundation Trust. This is a pivotal Trust-wide leadership role, with responsibility for providing strategic nursing leadership and oversight across quality, patient safety, integrated governance and organisational learning. The opportunity Working alongside the Chief Nursing & AHP Officer, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer and senior clinical and operational leaders, you will have the opportunity to influence how we understand quality, respond to risk and translate learning into measurable improvements. You will provide leadership across a significant portfolio including:

• the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)
• Learning from Deaths and mortality governance
• integrated quality governance and assurance
• development and delivery of the Trust's annual Quality Priorities
• learning from incidents, complaints, mortality reviews and patient feedback
• patient and family involvement in learning responses
• improvement and learning across clinical services

You will have the scope to strengthen how we triangulate intelligence, learn from patient safety events, understand variation and risk, and ensure that the voices of patients, families and staff influence improvement. You will also play an important role in supporting an organisational culture characterised by openness, learning, continuous improvement and compassionate leadership. The postholder will lead senior patient safety and governance functions, including the Head of Integrated Governance Systems, Head of Patient Safety Incident Management and Patient Safety & Family Liaison Manager, and will deputise for the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer when required.

We are looking for a Registered Nurse with current NMC registration who brings significant senior NHS leadership experience across quality, patient safety and governance. You will be able to demonstrate: · substantial senior leadership experience within a complex NHS environment · experience of quality surveillance, performance reporting and identifying emerging risks · the ability to interpret complex quality and safety information and translate it into clear priorities and action · experience of influencing senior clinical, operational and corporate leaders · strong leadership of multidisciplinary teams and the ability to develop high-performing services A key part of the role will be bringing together information from across the organisation to identify emerging themes and risks, ensuring that quality intelligence leads to action and sustainable improvement. You will provide expert advice and assurance to senior leaders, Executive committees and the Board and will work closely with Clinical Care Groups and corporate teams across the organisation. Just as importantly, you will bring compassionate, visible and values-led leadership. You will be comfortable working in a complex environment, able to navigate competing priorities and confident communicating highly sensitive information with clarity, judgement and diplomacy.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people. Our Five-Year Strategy: 1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. 2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all 3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. 4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

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.

Why this role? This is an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the next phase of our quality and safety journey.