Job Description

Strategic Professional Leadership and Practice Standards The Head of Nursing and Quality will lead a team of nurses and other health professionals to ensure improved quality of care, quality assurance, safeguarding and direct care delivery across the Directorate. You will work in conjunction with the Service Director, Clinical Director and other members of the Senior Management Team to ensure consistency of standards, maximising learning from serious incidents, complaints, audits, research, practice experience and national guidance. They will lead the directorate's serious incidents and complaints processes by working with others. Contribute to the performance of the directorate senior leadership team in meeting agreed goals and objectives, ensuring that quality information is accurate and that risk management systems are robust.



Service Transformation The Head of Nursing and Quality will work with the Service Director and Clinical Director to drive the necessary service transformations. Implement the nursing strategy by providing leadership at service level. Work with others to implement and monitor outcomes of quality improvement initiatives within the service. The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).



At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one. Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.