Deputy Director of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals

Job summary

Internal only to Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Solent NHS Trust and Isle of Wight NHS Trust employees.

Deputy Director of Nursing (Mental Health Acute and Crisis Pathway Team)

Band 8d (to be confirmed)

We are seeking, following the conclusion of our restructuring process, to recruit to the final key leadership post in our new Mental Health Acute and Crisis Pathway Team.

You'll be accountable for providing visible leadership to the Trusts Nursing, AHP and unregistered clinical workforce, across the Mental Health Acute and Crisis pathway, including, inpatient and community crisis.

Main duties of the job

You'll develop a positive culture to achieve excellence in the delivery of care and lead on the agendas below

Patient, Carer and partnership involvement and engagement: Fostering strategic relationships between key partners, including general practice, patients & carers, Integrated Care Colleagues, Social Care and local voluntary organisations.

Clinical standards, quality, oversight and CQC: Leading on Trust wide quality initiatives and the ABC clinical commitment for Nursing and AHP, driving engagement with divisional leadership and ensuring robust plans are in place to meet all standards of CQC.

Clinical expertise: You'll have strong mental health experience in acute and crisis. settings with extensive experience in positive risk management, restrictive practice and therapeutic engagement and bring this expertise to change and modernise practice.

Safeguarding: You'll ensure the Division meets its responsibilities in safeguarding children, vulnerable adults and the wider workforce in line with National Policy requirements and quality governance.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tatchbury Mount

Calmore

Southampton

Hampshire

SO40 2RZ

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tatchbury Mount

Calmore

Southampton

Hampshire

SO40 2RZ

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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