Are you a visionary nursing leader ready to influence the future of mental health care?
Job Title: Chief Nursing & Quality Officer
Location: Northampton
Salary: Competitive
Our Charity
We are St Andrew's a leading charitable provider of specialist inpatient mental health services across the UK. We are a mental health charity, and our purpose is to inspire hope for those living with complex mental health needs.
We are looking to a future with less stigma, more community support, more research and education, and we aim to be at the forefront of inspiring real change. We want to ensure we can all live in a society where everyone with complex mental health needs is heard, valued and has hope for their future.
Come and join us and support us to help people transform their lives.
About the Role
Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer the Chief Nursing & Quality Officer (CNQO) post holder will be an Executive Director and Trustee of the charity. The post holder’s prime responsibility will be to work corporately with other Board members in determining and delivering the Charity’s strategic plans, managing organisational performance and assuring good governance across all of the organisation’s functions. You will be the voice of nursing across the Charity ensuring the delivery of high‑quality, compassionate, evidence‑based nursing care across all services.
In this pivotal position, you will:
- Act as a Trustee of the Charity, ensuring that the Charity is financially sustainable and a well-run organisation.
- Act as the professional lead for Nursing across all Charity services, providing visible, strategic leadership whilst you Inspire, mentor, and develop our nursing workforce to reach their full potential
- Provide Board‑level leadership for quality assurance, ensuring robust systems exist to monitor, measure and evidence the quality, safety and effectiveness of care.
- Provides executive oversight to all specialist nursing areas, such as physical healthcare, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, and specialist nurse roles.
- Hold executive responsibility for determining, reviewing and assuring safe and effective nursing establishment approach across all services.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with external regulators, commissioners, professional bodies and quality networks (e.g., CQC, NMC, accreditation bodies).
- Oversee the clinical audit programme, ensuring it supports assurance, regulatory compliance and improvement.
- Ensures a robust approach to capturing and using patient and carer experience for improvement, whilst ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
About You
You will bring:
- Extensive leadership experience and evidence of achievement at senior / Executive level in a complex healthcare environment
- Expertise in quality assurance, risk management and quality improvements.
- Track record in driving organisational change through influence and leadership.
- Proven success in building high performing teams.
- Personal values aligned with St Andrews.
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
Why Join Us
This is a chance to:
- Help shape the future of mental health care and drive meaningful change.
- Work with a passionate, values‑driven charity
- Influence organisational culture and long‑term strategy
- Be part of an organisation that is ambitious, supportive, and committed to excellence
We offer an excellent package that includes:
Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing to 33 days after 10 years' service; Life cover; Electric Car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications. On-site facilities such as cafes all set within beautiful grounds.
If you are an inspiring leader with the courage to innovate and the passion to deliver outstanding care, we would love to hear from you.
Apply now and help us build a future where every person receives the compassionate, high‑quality mental health care they deserve.
Closing Date: 5th March 2026
