Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Deputy Chief Nurse & Quality Officer
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Deputy Chief Nurse & Quality Officer (Mental Health and Learning Disability)
We provide health and wellbeing services for around 1.8 million people in Lancashire and South Cumbria. The Trust specialises in secure, inpatient and community mental health and learning disability and autism services. We also provide community physical health nursing and a range of therapy services including physiotherapy, podiatry and speech and language therapy. Wellbeing services provided by the Trust also include healthy lifestyle services. To deliver these services the Trust employs approximately 8,000 colleagues across more than 150 sites, working with a wide range of partners out of 25 registered Care Quality Care (CQC) locations.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in an innovative Trust and be at the forefront of mental health and community innovation. It is a great opportunity for an experienced and dynamic Senior Nurse. The Deputy Chief Nurse Officer will act to ensure high quality and effective care for people who use our services is delivered throughout our Trust in accordance with our vision. The Deputy Chief Nurse Officer will actively promote a culture aligned to our values. In addition, the post holder will be expected to perform their duties and fulfil his/her responsibilities in accordance with the behaviours engendered through our Trust values, thus acting as a role model for all of our staff at all times.
Accountable and responsible to the Chief Nurse Officer, the post holder will work largely unsupervised and will be able to credibly influence across the organisation and health and social care system at the highest level. As a Mental Health and Community Trust, our services offer significant opportunities to enhance care through the provision of out of hospital care and integrated physical and mental health care.
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The post holder will provide system leadership to promote and realise enhancements to quality and patient experience through their direct involvement in these programmes of work. They will motivate, develop and build teams of clinicians who are able to drive forward service transformation and quality improvement across mental and physical health care, both within our organisation and across organisational boundaries. The post holder will be skilled at coaching individuals to enable them to deliver the best clinical care.
The Deputy Chief Nurse Officer will provide visible and purposeful leadership within the organisation with a focus on the nursing workforce and across the Nursing and Quality Directorate. The post holder will be expected to contribute to, and lead the formulation and implementation of, a wide range of national and local standards. Knowledge of, and attention to, national and local standards and best practice requirements will be vital.
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
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Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Oliver Soriano
- Job title: Chief Nurse Officer
- Email address: shenaz.mohammed@lscft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01772 695314
If you would like a further discussion on the role, in the first instance please contact our Chief Nurse Officer Oliver Soriano via email to his PA shenaz.mohammed@lscft.nhs.uk or via telephone on 01772 695314
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