Job overview

Are you an inspirational clinical leader with a passion for quality and improving patient outcomes? We're on the lookout for a dynamic and experienced professional to lead the quality agenda across our Specialist and Secured Services Care Delivery Pathway (SSCDP). This is a unique opportunity to shape and embed trauma-informed mental health care, drive excellence, and deliver real impact across a complex and high-profile service.

In this role, you’ll be a visible and credible presence, working across our secure and specialist environments – including prisons – to ensure outstanding mental health care is consistently delivered. 

You’ll need to be a registered mental health professional with a strong understanding of the Mental Health Act, trauma-informed care, and CQC regulation. You’ll have a knack for making sense of complex data, turning insight into action, and bringing people with you. You’ll be approachable and calm under pressure, with the ability to inspire confidence and build a culture of continuous improvement. 

In return, you’ll join a values-driven organisation committed to co-production, innovation, and creating services that people are proud to use – and staff are proud to lead. If you're ready to take the next step in your leadership journey and leave your mark on a vital area of care, we’d love to hear from you. We can’t promise it’ll always be easy – but it will definitely be rewarding (and no two days are ever the same!).

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be responsible at an operational level with accountability for the delivery of the Quality and Governance of the mental health stepped care model delivery across the Secured and Specialist Delivery Pathway (SSCDP). 
• Provide a range of quality services and interventions.
• To support and undertake research, clinical audit and evaluate the service as directed.
• To demonstrate and provide robust clinical leadership across the pathway and with all internal and external stakeholders, with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.