Job summary
- Main area
- Mental health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term for one year)
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-NUR-7843983-AP
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maudsley Hospital
- Town
- Camberwell
- Salary
- £99,808 - £113,803 Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Chief Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 8d
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
The Trust has invested in professional leadership and improving standards of care by making clear the nursing structure across the organisation. A part of this investment is the addition of a part time 12 month fixed term Associate Chief Nurse who will provide strategic and operational leadership for programmes of work, within the CNO office.
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience in leading the Trust's vision to deliver safe, effective, and timely care. This role will appeal to someone who wants to develop nursing care standards and has the experience and confidence to lead passionate and driven nurses. You will lead programmes of work where putting the patient at the centre of decisions and clinical practice will be the priority.
Main duties of the job
Alongside of the Deputy Chief Nurses the post holder will work closely with the Chief Nursing Officer deputising, including at external events and regulatory and statutory meetings. Adding the Associate Chief Nurse increases the post holder’s opportunity to make meaningful and lasting change that will make a real difference to the people we serve.
Applicants must have the ability to build positive and effective professional relationships, work with a range experienced leaders and be a credible nurse in practice. SLaM is committed to developing nurses.
this is an exciting time for the Trust as part of the South London Partnership we plan to further develop Nurse Associates and to ensure we have a clear development pathway for nurses at all levels.
The role of the Associate Chief Nurse is an excellent opportunity for a nurse who has ambitions to become a Chief Nurse. We will provide a robust development package that will support your aspiration. This post is for someone who is able to manage a demanding and busy portfolio, who has the confidence to work autonomously and above all else is a credible and authentic registered nurse able to lead by example.
Working for our organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Master’s degree in health-related subject
- • Registered Mental Health Nurse
- • Completion of recognised leadership programme or willing to undertake one
- • Evidence of recent and ongoing Continuous Professional Development/Doctorate in Health-related subject or equivalent demonstrable career record.
Desirable criteria
- • Second Registration
- • Specialist training and/or doctorate in Health-related subject or equivalent
- • In depth expert understanding of organisational development
- • Project management
- Teaching qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Recent significant experience at a senior level in the NHS with proven track record of using professional knowledge to bring about change
- • Recent significant experience of working at a senior nursing level within a Trust
- • Proven track record and significant experience of working with users and carers
- • Significant experience of facilitating and managing change within and across healthcare boundaries
- • Experience of working across professional boundaries, able to enthuse and inspire others using advanced communication and presentation skills
- • Experience in a variety of healthcare settings
- • Significant experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
- • Significant experience of providing compassionate care for complex populations and those vulnerable to exclusion
- • Experience of, or awareness of specific factors relating to working in a culturally diverse inner-city area
- • Demonstrable Knowledge and experience of quality governance
- • Experienced in teaching and developing, as well as training, Nursing staff.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working in Community services
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- • Proven track record and significant experience of working with users and careers
- • In depth understanding of NHS strategy and policy agendas
- • Demonstrable and Significant skills in effective leadership
- • The highest level of communication skills will be required to engage NHS leaders and local communities in service development and change. This includes negotiation, influencing and conflict management skills required to communicate controversial service improvement or organisational change issues
- • Highly developed analytical and problem-solving skills for the assessment of service delivery plans and formulation of improvement strategies where opinion may differ on the best course of action
- • Able to expertly facilitate multidisciplinary debriefing critical analysis
- • Meetings and manage these diverse teams
- • Able to take the lead in volatile situations
- • Able to provide expert mental health nursing advice to the whole trust
- • Able to manage time, so that deadlines are met
- • Able to manage change constructively and effectively
- • Able to negotiate constructively with all professions at all levels
- • Able to develop and implement multidisciplinary training packages using emotional intelligence, transactional analysis, and reflective practice framework
- • Systems and Learning Theoretical knowledge and understanding
- • Current policy context and the implications for mental health nursing
Desirable criteria
- • In depth understanding of service improvement/workforce development tools and techniques
- • Knowledge of Current professional developments in nursing and nurse education
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Kelsall
- Job title
- Deput Chief Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07736458318
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