Job summary
We're searching for an exceptional Assistant Director of Nursing to join our team,. This is a pivotal role in ensuring the highest standards of nursing practice across our Community Mental Health Service Line.
Within the Community Mental Health Service Line, you'll work closely with the Deputy Director of Community and Urgent Care Mental Health Services and Head of Operations, in the delivery of the highest standard/quality of care for users of our service. Your leadership will be central to fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and providing motivational guidance to our clinical teams. With your support, we aim to create an organisational climate where every individual can contribute to their fullest potential, aligned with our commitment to excellence and continuous improvement.
Main duties of the job
As Assistant Director of Nursing, you'll lead service development and transformation initiatives, advocating for service re-design to enhance service user experience.
Your expertise will ensure that delivery plans are compatible and will maximise opportunities for more efficient working in addition to promoting staff empowerment and accountability for service improvement at a local level. Moreover, you'll champion innovation and best practices, driving the adoption of new technologies and methodologies to improve service delivery and patient outcomes. With your guidance, our clinical teams will embrace a culture of continuous improvement, professional development, and lifelong learning.
This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on nursing practice and service user care within our organisation. If you're a registered nurse with extensive leadership experience and a passion for driving positive change, we encourage you to apply.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A detailed overview of the role and its responsibilities can be found within the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A detailed overview of the role and its responsibilities can be found within the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of on-going professional development
- Specialist knowledge in a range of community health services
- Masters level qualification or appropriate theoretical knowledge
Desirable
- Management or leadership qualification at postgraduate level or equivalent experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive experience in a senior management role (Band 8B or above) in the NHS or large multi functional public or commercial environment
- Experience of reporting to Executive Directors
- Able to demonstrate extensive resource management within an operational environment including clinical service provision, finance, HR, change management and modernisation
- Multi-agency partnership working
- Demonstrate an understanding of the impact on service provision of the NHS "forward plan" and local STP strategies delivered through the Provider Alliance
- Experience of developing business plans which support corporate and divisional objectives
- Proven ability to work in a challenging Performance Management environment delivering on targets within agreed timescales
- A sound knowledge of clinical governance
- Sound knowledge of the patient safety framework and risk management
- Management experience of large and complex services or commissioning significant service change
- Experience of leadership and management of complex change in a large organisation
- Current experience of strategic and operational responsibility for delivery of community health services
- Broad knowledge across a range of clinical areas, the wider NHS and future challenges within public sector services
- Knowledge and understanding of change management and quality improvement theory
- Experience of management of large and complex services or commissioning significant service change
- Experience of working successfully in a pressurised and unpredictable environment
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Strong financial management skills and understanding of Governance requirements
- Highly developed interpersonal, communication (written and oral), persuasive and facilitation skills
- Ability to prepare concise communications for dissemination
- Report writing ability
- Ability to work as part of a team and to lead a team
- Ability to communicate to and influence Board decisions
- Numerical and analytical ability
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to respecting and modelling the Trust values
- Able to develop and maintain effective working relationships
- Adaptability and initiative to raise to new challenges at a time of change
- Able to work with and through ambiguity
- Passionate about service improvement and the benefits this can deliverto patient care
- Commitment to personal, staff and organisational development
- Self-confident and emotionally resilient
- Flexible in style and approach
- Professional and personal credibility
- Ability to work cooperatively across a network of organisations and stakeholders
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of on-going professional development
- Specialist knowledge in a range of community health services
- Masters level qualification or appropriate theoretical knowledge
Desirable
- Management or leadership qualification at postgraduate level or equivalent experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive experience in a senior management role (Band 8B or above) in the NHS or large multi functional public or commercial environment
- Experience of reporting to Executive Directors
- Able to demonstrate extensive resource management within an operational environment including clinical service provision, finance, HR, change management and modernisation
- Multi-agency partnership working
- Demonstrate an understanding of the impact on service provision of the NHS "forward plan" and local STP strategies delivered through the Provider Alliance
- Experience of developing business plans which support corporate and divisional objectives
- Proven ability to work in a challenging Performance Management environment delivering on targets within agreed timescales
- A sound knowledge of clinical governance
- Sound knowledge of the patient safety framework and risk management
- Management experience of large and complex services or commissioning significant service change
- Experience of leadership and management of complex change in a large organisation
- Current experience of strategic and operational responsibility for delivery of community health services
- Broad knowledge across a range of clinical areas, the wider NHS and future challenges within public sector services
- Knowledge and understanding of change management and quality improvement theory
- Experience of management of large and complex services or commissioning significant service change
- Experience of working successfully in a pressurised and unpredictable environment
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Strong financial management skills and understanding of Governance requirements
- Highly developed interpersonal, communication (written and oral), persuasive and facilitation skills
- Ability to prepare concise communications for dissemination
- Report writing ability
- Ability to work as part of a team and to lead a team
- Ability to communicate to and influence Board decisions
- Numerical and analytical ability
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to respecting and modelling the Trust values
- Able to develop and maintain effective working relationships
- Adaptability and initiative to raise to new challenges at a time of change
- Able to work with and through ambiguity
- Passionate about service improvement and the benefits this can deliverto patient care
- Commitment to personal, staff and organisational development
- Self-confident and emotionally resilient
- Flexible in style and approach
- Professional and personal credibility
- Ability to work cooperatively across a network of organisations and stakeholders
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
