Associate Director of Nursing and Quality

Essential

• Current RMN or RNLD Nursing
• Master's degree in relevant subject
• Post graduate qualification in leadership and management or equivalent portfolio of experience
• Post graduate qualification in specialist nursing practice or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Managerial qualification.
• Teaching qualification

Essential

• Extensive senior clinical management/professional leadership experience in a large complex NHS organisation.
• Evidence of success in the management of change in a multi-agency context.
• Evidence of delivering high quality clinical and nursing services.
• Experience of working in a multi-culturally sensitive clinical practice.
• Ability to lead/develop policies and procedures.
• Experience of managing organization-wide programmes of quality risk/service improvement.
• Project Management experience.
• Budget management experience.
• Ability to interpret national policy and design and implement complex strategies.
• Experience of leading development and implementation of governance assurance processes.
• Demonstrable record of successfully delivering valuer improvement programmes.

Desirable

• Evidence of national presentations and publications.

Essential

• Advance knowledge of priorities in Health Care, quality and current clinical/professional issues.
• Understanding of National Strategies and their application for Nursing and Therapies.
• Expert knowledge of compliance, clinical governance, risk management, improving patient safety, experience and clinical effectiveness.
• Well-developed leadership and management skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Ability to work across professional and organisational boundaries and experience of working with commissioners.
• Ability to work in partnership with a range of people including people who access our services and carers.

Essential

• Ability to manage complex situations and provide a solution.
• Proven ability to consistently achieve results and challenging targets.
• Excellent report writing and data analysis skills.
• Proven ability to consistently achieve results and challenging targets.
• Excellent report writing and data analysis skills.
• Proven ability to lead improvement and audit activity through staff and service user/carer participation.
• Ability to hold others to account and manage demanding programmes of work.
• Values driven and self-aware.
• Proven leadership, influencing and negotiating skills with an open participative style.
• Ability motivate others and work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Able to deal both with multi-tasking in a complex environment as well as able to focus intense concentration on single issues for periods.
• Able to manage highly distressing or emotionally difficult information and situations and manage own emotions and be resilient.
• Professional and personal credibility.
• Strong team player willing to work flexibly.
• High effective interpersonal skills (able to communicate at any level of the organisation).
• Commitment to equal opportunity, fair access and people who access service carer empowerment.
• Ability to present complex information to different audiences.
• Ability to deal with highly sensitive situations a compassionate and caring manner.