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Associate Director of Nursing and Patient Experience - Secure Care
| Posting date: | 12 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £88,168 - £101,677 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L31 1HW |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6830135/350-SC6830135 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
If you're a visionary leader with over 5 years experience in forensic services, and a passion for delivering high-quality, person-centred care, we want to hear from you.
We're seeking an exceptional leader to drive excellence in nursing practice and patient experience across our Secure Care Division.
As Associate Director of Nursing and Patient Experience, you'll play a critical role in shaping our clinical quality agenda, leading innovation and improvement initiatives, and ensuring our services are free from stigma, discrimination, and harm. With a focus on patient-centred care, you'll work collaboratively with senior colleagues to develop and implement best practice guidance, drive workforce development, and promote a culture of support and trust.
Candidates must have extensive experience of working in High Secure environments, with a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges of providing high-quality care in these settings. A proven track record of delivering excellence in nursing practice and patient experience in High Secure services; as well as a strong understanding of the clinical and operational requirements of Secure services, including infection control, medicines management, etc.
The Associate Director of Nursing and Patient Experience has a cross divisional responsibility on behalf of the Divisional Director Secure Care and Chief Nurse to ensure development and delivery of nursing practice across the Secure Care Division is of the highest quality.
The post holder will be identified as the person responsible for supporting the nursing contribution to clinical quality agenda at a senior level. They will take the lead on clinical performance improvement in relation to the practice of nurses and improve compliance with relevant care standards across the Division. The post holder will also be responsible for providing professional leadership, support and advice to senior nurses across the Division and offer leadership to the Allied Health Professional staff group.
As an organisation we are committed to our Perfect Care Goal on Anti-racism and so are employing positive action where we know there is underrepresentation and for this position therefore, we encourage applications from people who are from BME communities.
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.
The post holders’ principal responsibilities fall into the following domains:
- Clinical Leadership
- Meaningful Activity
- Patient Experience
- Training, Education and Research
- Managerial Leadership
- Organisational Leadership
- Professional Leadership
- Quality Improvement
- Decisions and Judgement
Further detail is viewable within the Job Description attached to the bottom of the page.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Dec 2024
If you're a visionary leader with over 5 years experience in forensic services, and a passion for delivering high-quality, person-centred care, we want to hear from you.
We're seeking an exceptional leader to drive excellence in nursing practice and patient experience across our Secure Care Division.
As Associate Director of Nursing and Patient Experience, you'll play a critical role in shaping our clinical quality agenda, leading innovation and improvement initiatives, and ensuring our services are free from stigma, discrimination, and harm. With a focus on patient-centred care, you'll work collaboratively with senior colleagues to develop and implement best practice guidance, drive workforce development, and promote a culture of support and trust.
Candidates must have extensive experience of working in High Secure environments, with a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges of providing high-quality care in these settings. A proven track record of delivering excellence in nursing practice and patient experience in High Secure services; as well as a strong understanding of the clinical and operational requirements of Secure services, including infection control, medicines management, etc.
The Associate Director of Nursing and Patient Experience has a cross divisional responsibility on behalf of the Divisional Director Secure Care and Chief Nurse to ensure development and delivery of nursing practice across the Secure Care Division is of the highest quality.
The post holder will be identified as the person responsible for supporting the nursing contribution to clinical quality agenda at a senior level. They will take the lead on clinical performance improvement in relation to the practice of nurses and improve compliance with relevant care standards across the Division. The post holder will also be responsible for providing professional leadership, support and advice to senior nurses across the Division and offer leadership to the Allied Health Professional staff group.
As an organisation we are committed to our Perfect Care Goal on Anti-racism and so are employing positive action where we know there is underrepresentation and for this position therefore, we encourage applications from people who are from BME communities.
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.
The post holders’ principal responsibilities fall into the following domains:
- Clinical Leadership
- Meaningful Activity
- Patient Experience
- Training, Education and Research
- Managerial Leadership
- Organisational Leadership
- Professional Leadership
- Quality Improvement
- Decisions and Judgement
Further detail is viewable within the Job Description attached to the bottom of the page.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Dec 2024