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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Work with the Chief Nurse and Medical Director and other Executives to provide strategic leadership to the development and implementation of the Quality Improvement Strategy for the Trust, ensuring continuous improvement in standards of patient care, safety, and patient experience. This includes working across boundaries with health and social care organisations to ensure best possible outcomes for patients. 
• Provide professional leadership and advice across the Trust.
• You will have delegated responsibility to deliver the patient safety, quality and clinical governance portfolios of the Chief Nurse.   To achieve this, the post holder will have authority for decision-making in the absence of the Chief Nurse as appropriate and in relation to the role including.
• Lead the development, implementation and monitoring of the Trust’s Nursing, Midwifery and AHP strategy.
• Ensure Nursing and Midwifery practice is contemporary and in line with national guidance and best practice.
• Appraise and communicate emerging national policy and guidance and where appropriate translating into practice.
• Provide highly complex and expert professional advice and direction regarding clinical standards, appropriate treatment and statutory duties regarding clinical care.
• Supporting the delivery of the Trust’s continuous improvement programme, Patient First, implementing a programme approach and ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities.
• Lead the development of clinical level key performance indicators with reference to the safety goals and with the associated data sets and ensure governance systems are in place to monitor and improve performance at ward and specialty level, including ward performance scorecards, in partnership with the Care Groups.
•  In partnership with the Care Groups, Information Team and Chief Operating Office, support the development of an integrated performance and quality report to ensure the Board are fully cognisant of triangulated quality metrics, analysis, actions and outcomes. 
• Delegated responsibility for delivering Care Quality Commission programmes of work. This will require you to provide leadership to, and work in collaboration with, the Care Group leadership teams to create a culture of learning and improvement underpinned by robust governance systems and processes to monitor and report outcomes.
• Working with the Head of Safeguarding, lead and support the safeguarding, mental health and learning disability agendas to deliver excellence to our patients and their families, ensuring the voice of the service user or patient is central to service improvement.
• Support the Chief Nurse in the identification, prioritisation, and development of quality initiatives.
• Support the Chief Nurse in providing professional leadership to the nursing and midwifery and to the AHP workforce to ensure the delivery of high-quality compassionate care.
• Support the Trust’s staff engagement programme to improve staff health and well-being ensuring Nursing, Midwifery and AHP leadership is compassionate and responsive to staff needs.