Associate Director of Nursing & Quality

Main area: Mental Health

Grade Band: 8d

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Happy to discuss flexible working)

Job ref: 437-7025449-A

Site: Prestwich - dependent on role - across the footprint of the Trust

Town: Prestwich

Salary: £88,168 - £101,677 Per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 02/04/2025 23:59

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust as an Associate Director of Nursing and Quality. As Associate Director of Nursing and Quality (ADNQ), you will work in partnership with the Associate Director of Operations (ADO) and Associate Medical Director (MDO).

Together, you will ensure the effective leadership to support the requirements of the Care Group. The care groups are re-aligning, and it is likely this post will be the ADNQ for community services. As such, you will need to be a strong leader with a mental health nursing background who understands the challenges and strengths of working in communities to deliver care.

You will have gravitas and demonstrate strong influencing and facilitation skills. As a senior leader for the profession, you will advocate for nursing and ensure the inclusion of clinical professions in the work of the care group trio. Strong relationships and inclusion of psychology and allied health professionals is a core requirement. You will need to be creative and flexible, and you will participate in the future development of the Trust.

Main duties of the job

GMMH is improving; our communities are at the heart of how we work. We are seeking a passionate and driven nurse leader who can engage with service users, carers, and staff teams into the local system. You will hold responsibility to develop and implement quality standards, lead quality improvement, and ensure the voice of our service users is present throughout developments in our service delivery.

Please see detailed Job Description for more information on the duties.

Working for our organisation

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford, and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England, and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original, and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment, and dining options.

Wherever you go, you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour, and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills, and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the job description for full details.

• 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.
• Postgraduate qualification in leadership and management or equivalent portfolio of experience.
• Postgraduate qualification in specialist nursing practice or equivalent experience.
• Managerial / Teaching Qualification.

Experience

• 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.
• Evidence of national presentations and publications.

Knowledge

• Advanced 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

• 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

• 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 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

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 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.