Associate Director of Nursing for Quality & Safety

We are seeking an exceptional Associate Director of Nursing for Quality & Safety to join our senior Nursing Directorate leadership team at North London NHS Foundation Trust. This is a pivotal Trust-wide leadership role, with responsibility for providing strategic nursing leadership and oversight across quality, patient safety, integrated governance and organisational learning. The successful candidate will provide leadership across a significant portfolio including: the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) Learning from Deaths and mortality governance integrated quality governance and assurance development and delivery of the Trust's annual Quality Priorities learning from incidents, complaints, mortality reviews and patient feedback patient and family involvement in learning responses improvement and learning across clinical services. The postholder will lead senior patient safety and governance functions, including the Head of Integrated Governance Systems, Head of Patient Safety Incident Management and Patient Safety & Family Liaison Manager, and will deputise for the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer when required. Main duties of the job We are looking for a Registered Nurse with current NMC registration who brings significant senior NHS leadership experience across quality, patient safety and governance. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate: substantial senior leadership experience within a complex NHS environment experience of quality surveillance, performance reporting and identifying emerging risks the ability to interpret complex quality and safety information and translate it into clear priorities and action experience of influencing senior clinical, operational and corporate leaders strong leadership of multidisciplinary teams and the ability to develop high-performing services Benefits We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities. We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives. NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme Excellent internal staff network Person Specification Qualifications: Registered Nurse with current NMC registration, Master's degree (or equivalent experience at senior level). Experience: Significant senior nursing leadership experience within a complex NHS organisation, Significant experience leading quality, patient safety and governance functions. Knowledge: Expert knowledge of quality governance, patient safety and risk management, Detailed knowledge of PSIRF, Learning from Deaths, Duty of Candour and relevant NHS patient safety frameworks. Skills: Ability to analyse complex quality and safety information and translate it into clear actions and priorities, Ability to influence and challenge senior clinical, operational and corporate leaders, Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Job Data by YubHub .