Associate Director of Nursing & Quality

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the job description for full details.

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements - 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.
• Excellent pension.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Salary sacrifice car scheme.
• Wellbeing programme.
• Blue Light Card Discount.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current RMN or RNLD Nursing.
• Post graduate qualification in leadership and management or equivalent portfolio of experience.
• Masters degree in relevant subject.
• Post graduate qualification in specialist nursing practice or equivalent experience.

Desirable criteria

• Managerial / Teaching Qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive senior clinical management/professional leadership experience in a large complex NHS organisation.
• Evidence of success in the management of change in a multi-agency context.
• Evidence of delivering high quality service.
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment and knowledge of methods to develop culturally sensitive clinical practice.
• Experience of managing organisation-wide programmes of quality/risk/service improvement.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of national presentations and publications.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Advance knowledge of priorities in Health Care, quality and current clinical/professional issues and understanding of National Strategies and their application for Nursing and Therapies.
• Expert knowledge of compliance, clinical governance, risk management, improving patient safety, experience and clinical effectiveness.
• Well-developed leadership and management skills and excellent presentation skills.

Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to manage complex situations and provide a solution.
• Proven ability to consistently achieve results and challenging targets.
• Excellent report writing and data analysis skills.

Work Related Circumstances

Essential criteria

• Access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.
• Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies.
• Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Important Information about working for GMMH:

All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks. For further information on the checks required, please visit the NHS Employers website www.nhsemployers.org.

Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.

The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we'd love to hear from you.

**Please note, this vacancy may be closed at any time if sufficient applications have been received**

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• ADNQ JD PS (PDF, 456.6KB)
• Important Candidate information (PDF, 2.5MB)