Head of Nursing

The Strategic Business Unit (SBU) Head of Nursing will take ultimate accountability for excellent nursing care within the SBU. They will provide operational nursing advice and expertise, leadership and management, ensuring the registered and unregistered nursing workforce delivers the highest standards of healthcare.

The Head of Nursing is a core member of the SBU’s senior management team, and within this management team has absolute responsibility to ensure that all aspects of operational nursing is delivered to agreed high standards which will provide the best possible experience and outcome for service users across the SBU services.

Responsible to the SBU Managing Director and working collaboratively with the Clinical Director; professionally accountable to the Deputy Director of Nursing, this post supports the delivery of high quality service user centred care through the operational and strategic development of nurses and their professional practice.

As an integral member of the of the SBU senior management team the post-holder will support the development of governance structures that ensure learning from serious incident, other incidents and complaints are embedded in practice.

The post holder will work with minimal guidance, to support the strategic and business objectives for the SBU and the Trust. They will be required to use their own professional judgement, gained from extensive experience, and professional, clinical and managerial knowledge to interpret and address a wide variety of operational nursing issues. Accountable and responsible for providing the operational leadership of the registered and non-registered nursing work force of the SBU to ensure delivery of a properly resourced, capable, competent nursing work force to support the highest standards of healthcare.

At HPFT we provide an exciting and forward-thinking work environment, where staff feel valued and supported to reach their full potential. We are proud to be one of the top five recommended NHS Trusts to work for, and hold a CQC rating of Outstanding, making us one of the highest-rated Mental Health Trusts in the country. What's more, you will also be able to enjoy an extensive range of trust-wide staff benefits including:

• 27 days annual leave on entry to NHS
• One of the best pension schemes in the UK
• Flexible working options
• Car leasing scheme
• Childcare discounts
• Wellbeing events and activities
• A 24-hour staff support helpline
• To hold overall responsibility for all nursing standards and quality of nursing care within the SBU
• To provide strategic and operational nursing input at a senior management level to ensure appropriate advice is provided to the SBUs senior management team so that effective, high quality, safe, recovery focused mental health service is delivered consistently across the services
• To provide professional leadership and direction to the SBU senior nurse managers, nurse consultants, clinical leads delivering in-patient care and community care in relation to evidence based mental health practice, and to represent the views of nurses in the strategic business unit locally and in Trust-wide forums
• To work with the Managing Director and Clinical Director to ensure that all services have a clear clinical model of care delivery, that staff understand their roles and inputs in relation to this, and that a system of agreed quality metrics is used to demonstrate efficacy of care delivery
• To work in close collaboration with Service Line Leads, Heads of Profession, and external agencies, contributing to the planning and delivery of high quality mental health services locally
• To develop the most effective care pathways for service users through collaboration with other professionals and key stakeholders, which are in line with the SBU clinical vision and agreed clinical models of service delivery model

For a full outline of role responsibilities please refer to the attached Job Description.