Associate Director of Nursing | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Associate Director of Nursing – Community Clinical Care Group

Band 8c-North London NHS Foundation Trust

Lead Nursing Excellence. Shape Outstanding Care. Inspire Our Future.

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional Associate Director of Nursing to join our senior leadership team.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced nursing leader to influence the delivery of high-quality, compassionate and innovative mental health community services across a large and diverse Care Group.

Working in partnership with the Managing Director, Clinical Director and Director of Nursing, you will provide strategic nursing leadership, ensuring excellence in quality, patient safety, workforce development and clinical governance.

You will play a key role in delivering our ambitious strategic objectives, supporting continuous improvement and creating a culture where staff can thrive and patients receive outstanding care.

About the role

You will

• Provide professional leadership for nursing services across the Care Group.
• Lead the delivery of quality, safety and patient experience programmes.
• Support operational and workforce performance in conjunction with operational leads.
• Drive innovation, quality improvement and evidence-based practice.
• Build strong partnerships across the Trust, Integrated Care Board and wider stakeholder community.
• Champion equity, inclusion and compassionate leadership.
• Contribute as a senior member of the Care Group Senior Leadership Team

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff networ

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

We are looking for someone who

• Is a registered nurse with substantial senior leadership experience of working within mental health services.
• Has a successful track record of leading large-scale service improvement.
• Demonstrates outstanding nursing leadership and professional credibility.
• Has experience working within complex healthcare systems.
• Can build high-performing teams and engage staff at all levels.
• Is passionate about improving outcomes, experiences and opportunities for service users and staff.

Why join us?

At North London NHS Foundation Trust, we are transforming care through collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement. We are committed to developing our people, advancing nursing practice and creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

Join us and help shape the future of mental health and community services across North London.

This advert closes on Thursday 30 Jul 2026