Deputy Director of Nursing and Patient Experience

at  Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Derbyshire Healthcare is looking for a Deputy Director of Nursing and Patient Experience to join our Trust.
The Deputy Director of Nursing will provide strong, visible professional leadership within the organisation. Focused on ensuring the improvement of patient outcomes and experiences, providing professional nursing leadership and leading, on behalf of the Executive Director of Nursing and Patient Experience, the Trust’s CQC governance and regulatory focus.
You will as an expert in practice provide clinical and technical advice to mental services and ensure strategies are in place to deliver measurable and sustainable improvement in quality and safety in line with local and national best practice standards.
This role will provide strategic and Directorate operational leadership to Nursing and Allied professionals wide-ranging professional leadership and governance including direct support to Nursing, AHPs, Associate Clinical Directors, Clinical Operational Managers, named supervisees within the Trust and will work with the Managers and Senior Clinicians in the Trust to ensure robust Quality Governance.
The post holder will ensure arrangements are in place to support the delivery of Allied Health Professional and Nursing Strategies, and ensuring that standards are met in terms of the management of complaints, and patient safety incidents, ensuring a proactive risk management and shared learning, in addition to setting clinical standards and safe staffing and capacity models in all areas.
You must have Current Nurse registration with the NMC (RMN or RNLD) and have a successful track record in the leadership and management of Nursing and AHP services.
Experience of working in Mental Health, Learning Disabilities or Children’s services is essential and alongside a track record of actively promoting and advancing the voice of service users and wider patient experience agenda (including co-production.)
You will also be able to demonstrate an ability to manage and promote diversity in your own and others day to day practise.
Our Trust provides mental health, learning disability and autism services across Derby and Derbyshire, alongside services for children and young people in Derby and southern Derbyshire. We also offer a range of specialist services including substance misuse, gambling harms and eating disorders services. We have a strong organisational identity and are very proud of our values-led approach to healthcare.
We have a diverse range of colleagues, including over 1,550 nursing and AHP colleagues, and our latest staff survey results tell us that people find Derbyshire Healthcare a good place to work and receive care. This role will play an important part in ensuring we create an inclusive and supportive environment which reinforces our Team Derbyshire Healthcare approach.
I hope you are excited by the opportunities that this role presents and that you will be inspired to apply to join our team.
Please be aware we are not looking to work with recruitment agencies on this appointment.
Please see the job description attached for the full list of responsibilities. Please ensure you review the full details before submitting your application.
You should attach a CV that covers your full employment history, and a covering letter that outlines your motivation for applying for this position, including the knowledge, skills and experience you have that will make you suitable for this role

Please refer the Job description for details