Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care Group Nurse Director

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board; Pontypool; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Wales is seeking an experienced Care Group Nurse Director for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities. The successful candidate will lead multiple teams and drive quality and patient safety initiatives within the organization. Applicants should have substantial senior leadership experience in nursing, an advanced degree, and a deep commitment to enhancing patient care standards. This role offers a supportive environment to develop strategic nursing practices and improve recruitment strategies.

Benefits

Relocation support package

Qualifications

• Proven track record in senior nursing leadership roles.
• Experience managing multi-site healthcare services.
• Expertise in driving quality and patient experience improvements.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible, strategic leadership for nursing and quality agenda.
• Drive quality, safety, and patient experience across services.
• Champion continuous improvement in clinical governance.

Skills

Leadership experience

Quality and safety management

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Clinical governance expertise

Education

Masters level education or equivalent

Registered Nurse with current NMC registration

Job description

Go back Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care Group Nurse Director

The closing date is 28 December 2025

Are you an experienced mental health nurse ready to lead at scale in a complex, rewarding system? Can you hold the line on quality and safety while building a culture where multi-disciplinary teams thrive and patients remain at the centre of care?

We are seeking a Care Group Nurse Director for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities (MHLD) to join our senior leadership team at Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB. This is a key leadership role for an aspiring Executive Nurse. You will be the most senior mental health nursing leader within the Care Group, building on a strong foundation created by our retiring post holder, widely recognised across Wales for their contribution to the profession.

The MHLD Care Group is comparable in size and complexity to a standalone Mental Health Trust. We deliver a wide range of all-age mental health and learning disability services across a large, varied geography.

You will provide visible, strategic and professional leadership for nursing and the wider quality agenda, working as part of a close-knit, supportive senior team that includes the Service Director, Care Group Medical Director and Clinical Director of Psychologies.

We're looking for a mental health-qualified nurse with substantial senior leadership experience, a strong track record in quality, safety and patient experience, and a genuine commitment to multi-disciplinary working and cultural improvement, with the ability to maintain visible, accessible leadership across a multi-site service

Main duties of the job

This is your opportunity to shape nursing across MHLD Care Group & lead strategically for a designated locality.

To provide visible, inspiring leadership, setting clear expectations for professional standards & patient-centred care.

You'll drive quality, safety & patient experience, working collaboratively with medical, psychological & operational colleagues to deliver a whole-system approach.

Leading a data-driven quality management system, championing continuous improvement & learning from incidents & reviews. You'll shape workforce strategy, redesigning roles, developing career pathways and prioritising staff wellbeing, while ensuring robust clinical governance and compliance.

As part of the senior team, you'll influence financial planning, performance, digital transformation & strategic priorities, building strong partnerships.

We're looking for a registered mental health nurse with significant senior leadership experience, confident in leading large, multi-site services and driving improvements in quality & patient experience.

You'll bring expertise in clinical governance and inclusive leadership, thrive in multi-disciplinary teams and take a values-driven approach to shaping strategy and developing future leaders.

We offer a relocation support package.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; while the candidate doesn’t need to have skills in Welsh, we’ll consider it an advantage when short‑listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t fluency, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see Welsh Language Guidance in the documents right at the bottom.

For more information, contact Tom Patterson at Alumni Global via [e-mail], 07970 339 151 or visit our dedicated microsite: www.alumniglobal.com/job/ctmuhb

Person Specification

Qualifications and/or Knowledge

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent qualification, knowledge and/or experience supplemented by highly specialist qualification to doctoral level equivalency.
• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Highly relevant specialist clinical knowledge relating to sphere of responsibilities

Experience

• Significant post registration experience at a very senior nursing level
• Significant senior operational management experience across healthcare sectors

Aptitude and Abilities Skills

• Ability to analyse complex clinical issues/problems, identify necessary action and make recommendations and follow these through
• Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Desirable for this Role.

Personal Qualities

• Ability to communicate clearly in written and oral form

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.

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