Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 8d Divisional Director of Nursing - BNSSG
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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.
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.
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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.
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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 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million 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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: John Trevains
- Job title: BNSSG Clinical Director
- Email address: j.trevains1@nhs.net
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