Senior Director, Nursing & AHPs Quality (Secured)

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Peterborough; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) seeks an Assistant Director Nursing, AHPs and Quality for secured services in Peterborough. You will provide senior professional leadership for nursing and AHPs, and drive quality governance and patient safety across secured services.

You will report to the Group Chief Nurse, work with clinical and corporate colleagues to ensure safe, compassionate care, strengthen learning, and readiness for inspection while managing workforce development

Qualifications

• Provide an example that demonstrates your senior clinical, operational or professional leadership experience within a complex healthcare organisation.
• Describe your experience of working within secure, forensic, mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental or other specialist services.
• Provide an example of compassionate, inclusive and professional leadership in line with organisational values.

Responsibilities

• Provide inclusive leadership across secure services, ensuring safe, high-quality care through strong governance, an open learning culture and an effective nursing and Allied Health Professionals workforce.
• Lead the delivery and continuous improvement of safe, high-quality, patient-centred care, ensuring effective patient safety, risk management and quality governance.
• Deliver nursing, Allied Health Professionals, 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 to improve practice.
• Provide assurance through quality metrics, risk review, regulatory and CQC readiness, clear escalation and reporting to senior and Board-level forums.
• Develop a safe, skilled and sustainable nursing and Allied Health Professionals workforce through effective recruitment, retention, development, establishments, rosters and skill mix.
• Champion patient and carer involvement, complaints and PALS learning, ensuring experience and co-production shape service improvement.
• Work with clinical, corporate, commissioner, regulatory and system partners; use data to identify priorities; manage budgets and resources effectively; and deputise for senior leaders as required.
• The post holder may undertake other duties appropriate to the grade, hours and scope of the role.

Skills

Senior leadership

NHS experience

Governance

Patient safety

Job description

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) seeks an Assistant Director Nursing, AHPs and Quality for secured services in Peterborough. You will provide senior professional leadership for nursing and AHPs, and drive quality governance and patient safety across secured services.

You will report to the Group Chief Nurse, work with clinical and corporate colleagues to ensure safe, compassionate care, strengthen learning, and readiness for inspection while managing workforce development