Director of Nursing - Leadership and Quality

The Nursing Directorate is responsible for developing a strategic approach to ensuring people have a positive experience of care and treatment and that people are cared for in a safe environment as well as providing professional leadership to nurses and midwives.

• The regional team is led by the Regional Chief Nurse and a senior management team who work closely with all members of the Directorate, regionally and nationally.
• The Directorate supports six Integrated Care Board (ICB) areas within the footprint which includes Norfolk & Waveney, Suffolk & North East Essex, Cambridge and Peterborough, Mid & South Essex, West Essex & Hertfordshire and Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes.
• The Nursing Directorate has high expectations to meet the challenges of national policy and consistently strives to deliver clinical best practice in Nursing and Midwifery so that patients receive the right care in the right place at the right time.
• The Nursing Directorate is a highly dedicated and committed team who work together drawing on NHS Values.
• The Nursing Directorate works closely internally with colleagues across NHS England to ensure a comprehensive regional approach is taken and maintained delivery of patient care.
The Directorate continues to establish robust working practices alongside external agencies including Local Authorities, Regulators, Healthwatch and other voluntary and private sector organisations., This system-facing role will provide senior nursing leadership in the following areas:
• Provides senior nursing and midwifery support and guidance in an advisory or supervisory capacity to frontline staff
• Supports quality improvement, surveillance and assurance, including safety, safeguarding and patient experience
• Supporting clinical sustainability
• Driving improvements in priority areas of the long-term plan, directors of nursing and infection, prevention and control nurses.
This post is a clinical post to be filled by a candidate with a nursing or midwifery qualification & extensive experience as a nurse, midwife or health visitor and current registration with the NMC. The postholder will be expected to deputise for the Regional Chief Nurse. Working in collaboration with relevant colleagues, they will take regional leadership responsibility in one or more of the following areas: patient safety, assurance and organisational improvement and supporting the delivery of national priorities e.g. the Long Term Plan. The post holder will play a key role managing the overarching quality framework within the region and ensure that Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), including constituent organisations, have a clear and consistent focus on quality, quality improvement and related nursing/ midwifery matters. The post holder will act in accordance with the statutory and regulatory frameworks of NHS Improvement and NHS England.

The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.