Divisional Nurse for Mental Health & Learning Disabilities

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board; Caerleon; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Wales seeks a Divisional Nurse to join their senior leadership team. This role involves providing strategic leadership, enhancing patient care, and implementing nursing policies across Mental Health & Learning Disabilities. The ideal candidate will have senior nurse management experience, leadership training, and a focus on quality improvement. This position offers the chance to further develop your career in an award-winning healthcare setting.

Benefits

Flexible working

Extensive training and development opportunities

Occupational health support

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Senior Nurse Management is essential.
• Leadership & Management development is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic, visible leadership in Mental Health & Learning Disabilities.
• Drive improvements in patient safety and quality of care.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Thinking

Operational Expertise

Patient Safety

Education

Professional Nursing Qualification

Job description

Job Overview

Are you ready to take on a pivotal leadership role that shapes the future of nursing within Mental Health & Learning Disabilities? We are looking for an exceptional Divisional Nurse to join our senior leadership team and drive excellence across the Division.

The Divisional Nurse is an integral member of the Divisional Triumvirate, working in partnership with the Divisional Director and General Manager. This is the most senior nursing position within Mental Health & Learning Disabilities, offering a unique opportunity to influence strategy, lead transformation, and deliver outstanding care.

You will bring exceptional strategic and operational expertise to deliver and evaluate progress against the Health Board’s vision of achieving excellence in healthcare.

Main duties of the job

• Provide strategic, visible leadership as the most senior nursing role within MH & LD.
• Drive improvements in patient safety, quality, experience, innovation, and performance.
• Lead transformation through agreed improvement models, ensuring better outcomes for patients.
• Influence and contribute to Divisional and Corporate initiatives, assuring proactive management of clinical improvement plans.
• Interpret and implement national nursing policy, advising senior leaders on clinical nursing issues.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, local authorities, Welsh Government, and third sector partners to shape policy and practice.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in‑house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high‑quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world‑class healthcare service fit for the future.

Applications

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English. Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments or support needed. If you need any documents in a larger font or a different format (such as braille) please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3 or email [e-mail].

If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time, therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.

We reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.

Please check your email account regularly; successful applicants will receive all recruitment‑related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professional Requirements

Desirable criteria

• Leadership & Management development

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of Senior Nurse Management

Desirable criteria

• Sufficient Experience