Associate Director of Nursing (Mental Health/Learning Disabilities)

Overview

In this senior nursing leadership role, you will steer professional and clinical practice for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. You’ll work with the Chief Nursing Officer and others to drive quality, safety, and person-centred care while upholding safeguarding commitments across two trusts. You will shape workforce development, research, and service improvement through cross-system collaboration with clinical and operational leaders. A key hook is your influence on care quality and stakeholder partnerships to improve community and hospital-based mental health services.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and professional nursing leadership for Mental Health and Learning Disability services, ensuring high standards of clinical practice, quality, safety and patient experience
• Provide safeguarding leadership, assurance and oversight across Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
• Line management and professional leadership to the Head of Safeguarding, supporting governance and partnership working
• Offer expert professional advice to senior leaders on nursing practice, safeguarding, quality, safety and professional standards
• Lead development of a skilled, compassionate, inclusive and sustainable nursing and clinical workforce, including recruitment, retention and succession planning
• Promote evidence-based practice, research, innovation and quality improvement, translating learning into clinical improvements
• Strengthen involvement of service users, families and carers in care design and improvement
• Collaborate with clinical and operational leaders, system partners, education providers and voluntary sector to improve outcomes

Key requirements

• Registered mental health nurse
• Doctorate level qualification or Masters level qualification with demonstrable postgraduate training and experience
• In-depth mental health practice experience in a senior role
• Knowledge of key national policies and drivers relating to mental health, learning disabilities, and secure provision
• Ability to manage highly complex clinical or management issues with competing agendas and opinions
• Evidence of strong clinical leadership resulting in high clinical standards
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries and developing productive partnerships
• UK professional registration and DBS clearance requirements

• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Ability to work under pressure with ambitious deadlines
• Ability to write sub/board level assurance reports and summarise risks and mitigations from evidence
• Knowledge of national policy initiatives related to mental health, learning disabilities and safeguarding
• Safeguarding governance and oversight
• Quality, safety and professional standards assurance

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