Deputy Associate Director of Nursing and Patient Experience

We are looking for a Deputy Associate Director of Nursing and Patient Experience to join our mental health team on a fixed term/secondment basis for 6 months.

This role would suit an aspiring nurse leader and is a fantastic development opportunity.

This is a pivotal role in ensuring the highest standards of nursing practice across the Mental Health Care Division. You will be working with the Associate Director of Nursing and Patient Experience in the delivery of the highest standard/quality of care for users of our mental health service.

Your leadership will be central to fostering a culture of continuous improvement and providing motivational guidance to our clinical teams.

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. If you wish to apply for this role on a secondment basis, it is essential that you have the approval of your line manager prior to submitting your application.

This Role Includes

• To lead and support the development of processes to monitor effectiveness and quality of care delivered within the Mental Health Care Division.
• To provide professional leadership and direction to the nursing workforce in the Division and be at the forefront of multi-disciplinary practice within services.
• Take a significant role and on the development of strategic workforce plans for all professional groups across the Division and ensure they contribute to new and emerging service models in the Division as directed by Associate Director of Nursing
• To empower the service user and carer voice within service delivery and developments.
• To monitor standards of service user care, engagement and participation across all settings and, taking improvement and corrective action as required.
• To lead and develop the service user and carer involvement and engagement strategy and Equality & Diversity Agendas within the Division.
• Support any CQC surveys and lead on any ensuing action plans arising from surveys.
• Support the Associate Director of Nursing with the governance systems and processes ensuring effective governance nursing management with the Division and develop a quality assurance framework.
  
  

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Zoe Prince Job title: Associate Director of Nursing Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07919295530

Please contact Rachel Bilsbury, Deputy Associate Director of Nursing [email protected], whilst Zoe is on Annual Leave.