Assistant Director of Nursing – Safeguarding and SEND

• Providing expert professional leadership and advice on safeguarding and SEND to NHS organisations, Integrated Care Boards, provider trusts and system partners.
• Leading the development and delivery of regional programmes that support national priorities and statutory responsibilities.
• Working collaboratively with local authorities, education partners, the voluntary sector and other stakeholders to drive improvements in quality, safety and patient experience.
• Providing assurance on safeguarding arrangements and supporting organisations to meet their statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Influencing policy, strategy and service transformation across the region, ensuring the voice and needs of vulnerable populations remain central to decision-making.
• Leading quality improvement initiatives, using evidence, intelligence and best practice to enhance outcomes and reduce inequalities.
• Representing NHS England at regional and national forums, building strong partnerships and promoting collaboration across organisational boundaries.
• Supporting workforce development and professional leadership, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and excellence.
• Deputising for the Deputy Director of Nursing as required and contributing to the wider strategic leadership of the regional nursing and quality team.

Essential

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent with experience of working at senior level in safeguarding
• A current Nursing & Midwifery Council professional registration

Essential

• Extensive knowledge and experience of safeguarding, looked-after children and care leavers, SEND, supervision, coaching and quality improvement within provider settings and/or integrated commissioning boards. This is supported by a postgraduate diploma (or equivalent training and experience), along with additional specialist knowledge or experience to a level equivalent to a degree.
• Leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare and multi-agency policy's including multi-agency partnership working, SEND, CHC and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
• Should demonstrate a clear understanding of the relationships between the Department of Health and Social Care, OHID (Public Health), the Department for Education, the Home Office, NHS England/DHSC reforms, and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
• Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification.

Essential

• Experience of successfully operating and delivering in a partnership environments.
• Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice in specialist field
• Ability to communicate effectively with clinical, academic and all levels of staff.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
• Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement

Essential

• Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with the new organisational values
• Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
• Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others