Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Will include Director on Call responsibilities)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-CO-21783(EC)
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Millview Hospital
- Town
- Hove
- Salary
- £91,342 - £105,337 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/12/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Divisional Director of Nursing & Quality - Brighton & Hove
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Come and join us
We’re looking for people who share our values of compassion, accountability and optimism to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve. We specialise in NHS mental health and learning disability services and we’re proud to make a difference every day.
At SPFT we put people first. We’ll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. You’ll have opportunities to learn, grow and gain new experiences to support your career, with access to lifelong learning and professional development.
We actively promote flexible working and understand how important work life balance is, especially in healthcare. Whether it’s part time hours, hybrid working or flexible start and finish times, we’ll explore what works for you and the role.
We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may choose to use it to help prepare your application. We welcome innovation but ask that anything you submit reflects your own abilities, experience and voice. AI can support how you describe your skills and experience, but it should never replace your own words as we want to get to know you.
We’re shaping a workplace where ideas are encouraged, technology supports you and everyone has a voice in how we improve. If that sounds like the kind of organisation you want to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join us as Divisional Director of Nursing & Quality on a 12 month secondment / fixed-term to support our place-based structure
Working within our Brighton & Hove division as part of the Triumvirate leadership alongside the Managing Director and Clinical Director, you will be accountable for Quality (Safety, Effectiveness and Experience), driving a programme of improvement for Quality and Professional Standards.
You will ensure that high quality care is consistent with NMC and CQC fundamental standards, and safeguarding principles, in line with the organisations vision and values, and strategic objectives.
You will work with others to ensuring that ongoing transformation of services results in highly effective and efficient care pathways, using digital enablers that are fit for the future.
If you have a patient centred and just culture leadership approach, and want to make a difference this will be the role for you. .
You will be supported on your continuing professional development journey via appraisal supervision and training opportunities. Sussex Partnership NHS is an equally opportunities employer and we also welcome applications from nurses with lived experience.
Main duties of the job
The Divisional Director of Nursing and Quality (DDoNQ) will drive the programme of improvement for Quality and Professional Standards across the Division ensuring that the delivery of high-quality care is consistent with NMC and CQC fundamental standards, safeguarding principles, Trust Values and the Trust and Division Strategic Objectives
The DDoNQ will have accountability for the quality of care across the Division and will work within agreed objectives, quality standards and resource, in line with local & national plans.
The DDoNQ will have accountability for nursing practice across the Division, ensuring that the nursing voice has authority and that the nursing strategy is delivered live in practice.
Working for our organisation
This is an excellent time to be joining Sussex Partnership Trust. These roles enable us to place a renewed focus on ensuring that the new nursing strategy is delivered live in practice, that we find new ways to address the recruitment and retention challenge, and that we do this alongside the professional strategies of our psychology, social work and AHP colleagues.
We are in the process of transitioning to the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), are reviewing our response to patient and carer feedback. Your high clinical standards will influence how we operate in the best interest of our staff, patients and carers; enabling learning and ongoing service development on a continual cycle.
A clear programme of development support will be offered to enable further career progression.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key result areas for the Divisional Director of Nursing and Quality role include:
- Strategic Professional Leadership and Practice standards
- Lead a team of nurses and other health professionals to ensure quality planning, control and improvement are delivered across the Division and communicated appropriately through the organisation's governance meeting structure.
- Service Transformation
- Working closely with the Managing Director and Clinical Director to drive the necessary service transformations.
- Quality Assurance
- Working closely with the clinical services on all matters pertaining to quality governance, using data to support effective practice changes maximising digital solutions
- Professional and Senior Leadership Responsibilities
- Development of clear plans on career pathways for nursing, ensure nurses are happy in their work and through this, stabilise recruitment and retention
- Nursing Workforce Development
- Lead workforce planning for the Nursing Directorate based on the identification of the nursing contribution within care pathways. This includes identification of skills gaps, creation of new posts and extension of roles.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to master's level or equivalent in a health-related field
- Evidence of significant relevant professional development
- Registered nurse (NMC)
- Proven ability to perform at strategic and senior management level
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience at a senior nursing level leading mental health and learning disability nursing practice and quality
- Professional regulatory experience - NMC
- Quality regulatory experience - CQC
- Nursing workforce, inc. recruitment and retention
- Safer staffing
- Clinical Governance
- Leading and managing change through co-production
- Analysing highly complex information and developing practical and workable solutions to address them at pace.
- Experience of thinking and planning long term strategy
- Being able to prioritise programmes of work in the face of competing demands.
- Experience of managing and delivering to deadlines and within resources.
- Experience of achievement in negotiating and influencing others.
- Writing papers for sub committees
- Strong record of multiprofessional collaborator internally and externally
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Portia Aveling
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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