Job overview

Shape the future of mental health nursing across BNSSG

Are you an experienced and visionary nursing leader looking for an opportunity to influence quality, safety and innovation at scale? Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) is seeking an outstanding Divisional Director of Nursing to join our BNSSG Divisional Leadership Team. This is a pivotal senior leadership role where you will provide professional nursing leadership across a diverse portfolio of mental health services, ensuring the highest standards of patient care, clinical quality, safety and workforce development.

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About you

We are looking for an exceptional senior nurse leader who combines professional credibility with strategic insight and a passion for improving patient care.

· A Registered Nurse with substantial senior leadership experience within mental health services.

· An experienced leader of quality, governance and clinical safety agendas.

· Passionate about developing nursing excellence and supporting staff to thrive.

· Experienced in leading large scale service improvement and transformation programmes.

· A compassionate, visible and inspiring leader who can engage colleagues at every level.

Working for our organisation

Ready to make a difference?

If you are a credible and compassionate senior nurse leader who wants to influence care, develop the nursing profession and help shape the future of mental health services across BNSSG, we would love to hear from you.

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

About the role

As the most senior nurse within the Division, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of services, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring that the voice of nursing remains at the heart of decision making. Working closely with the Divisional Clinical Director, Divisional Director of Operations and Executive Director of Nursing and Quality, you will help deliver strategic priorities whilst fostering a culture of compassion, innovation, accountability and excellence.

You will:

· Provide visible and inspirational leadership to nurses and multidisciplinary teams across inpatient and community services.

· Lead quality, governance, patient safety and professional standards across the Division.

· Champion evidence based practice, quality improvement and innovation.

· Support delivery of outstanding patient experiences and improved clinical outcomes.

· Lead divisional nursing workforce development, succession planning, recruitment and retention initiatives.

· Ensure effective systems are in place to maintain safe staffing and high quality care.

· Contribute to service redesign programmes and major transformational change.

· Represent the Division and Trust within regional and national professional forums.

Please see Job Description for full details

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.

Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.

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