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• An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, driven and committed mental health nurse or AHP with a passion for parity of esteem and building bridges between physical and mental health to join GESH as their Associate Director of Mental Health.
• St George’s Hospital have successfully established a mental health team in the emergency department to support the needs of those experiencing acute mental health crisis.
• We are looking to grow and expand this model across GESH and are looking for an exceptional candidate who can support us to do so.
• You will provide strategic and operational leadership in the care of adults and children with mental health needs across GESH.
• The Associate Director of Mental Health will be professionally accountable to the Group Chief Nurse and will be responsible to the Group Director for Quality. 
• The successful candidate will be responsible for developing a Trust Mental Health Strategy that supports the delivery of the five year forward view for mental health and any strategic objectives as agreed by the internal mental health group or joint Mental Health Board.
• This will include the design and implementation of initiatives to enhance the quality of care, experience and safety for people attending the Trust with mental health needs; in line with best practice.

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• Leadership & Management Design and lead delivery of significant transformational change regarding how we manage mental health in partnership with physical health, to meet Trust strategic and operational objectives across the organisation leading to measurable improvement in efficiency, safety and quality of care for patients. 
• Design and lead the development of care pathways, guidelines and protocols for people with mental health needs.
• Act as the principal advisor to the Group Director of Safeguarding, Group Director of quality and Group Chief Nurse on matters related to mental health.
• To design provide/develop training for staff to understand the use of the Mental Health Act, clinical practice, risk management of the patient population. 
• To review and agree a set of Quality performance Indicators to measure the improvement in care and reporting through the trust governance process.
• Work collaboratively with key partners and stakeholders in the design and implementation of pathway improvements for mental health patients.
• Ensure the Trust meets relevant legislative, contractual, and regulatory obligations in relation to the Mental Health agenda; this includes ensuring the Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards are met and maintaining an evidence/ assurance portfolio.

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Trust Vision & Values:
 
The postholder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the trust strategy of: Delivering Outstanding Care, Every Time.

Our strategy is founded on four key priorities: providing strong foundations, delivering excellent local services, closer collaboration and offering leading specialist healthcare.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these. 

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment.

The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non-clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role.

The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take.