Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Town Sheffield Salary £76,965 - £88,682 per annum pro rata for part time staff Salary period Yearly Closing 10/08/2025 23:59 Interview date 20/08/2025
Associate Nurse Director
NHS AfC: Band 8c
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
"A key role that will help shape the continued success of a leading NHS Foundation Trust"
We are looking for an ambitious, highly motivated, innovative nurse leader, to join Sheffield Teaching Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust as an Associate Nurse Director.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be accountable to the Nurse Director for Haematology and Specialised Cancer Services (HaSC) and Specialised Medicine and Rehabilitation (SMR) Care Groups. On behalf of the Nurse Director, they will be required to provide strategic, clinical and operational leadership and management, representing nursing within the services of the Specialised Medicine and Rehabilitation Care Group.
Attributes should include proven leadership skills and the ability to demonstrate evidence of leading and managing change in a dynamic and challenging environment. Applicants will need to demonstrate experience of working effectively in a complex, multi professional environment within an acute hospital setting and an ability to contribute to performance management objectives, working within set financial controls and resources.
Candidates must demonstrate a passion for nursing, service development, and promote best possible evidence based clinical practice. Applicants must also have exceptional communication skills and the ability to lead, influence, negotiate to inspire a culture of positive change to deliver the best quality patient care and experience.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications (General education/ further and professional
* Registered Nurse or Midwife on the UK Nursing and Midwifery register.
* Proven leadership skills
* Educated to degree level or higher
* Recognised management qualification.
* Master’s level study or working towards
Experience (Previous/current work or any other relevant experience)
* Extensive post-registration experience of working effectively in a relevant multi-professional environment.
* Must have been at middle management level and have significant experience in several disciplines, eg. Clinical governance, financial management, performance management, information systems and staff management, acquired through training and experience in an acute healthcare setting.
* Significant senior nursing and leadership experience, demonstrating ability to manage and lead services during time sof complexity and
* Knowledge of broader NHS agenda
* Experience of leading project work.
* Highly skilled in the use of Microsoft Office, particularly EXCEL
* Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and prioritise workload to meet relevant deadlines with competing priorities.
* Proficient in use of various IT systems, such as E-roster tools, electronic whiteboards, electronic patient records.
* Excellent analytic and interpretation skills
* Evidence of relevant professional development.
* Significant experience of successful development and delivery of service improvement or successful management of significant organisational change in a complex environment.
* Experience of leading and managing conflicting priorities and demonstrating ability to provide stability to the team.
* Advanced negotiation, influencing and persuasive skills, including credibility with clinical staff.
* Demonstrable success in building, leading, motivating, managing and developing teams.
* Significant experience of working with staff, their representatives, trade unions and professional organisations.
* Evidence of a commitment to evidence based practice.
* Understanding the NHS of research agenda.
* Significant experience of professional regulation and NMC requirements.
Other Factors
* Must be able to participate in on call rota, including night duty when required.
* May be required to provide Bronze command business continuity support on an ad hoc basis.
Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here .
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If you are offered employment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals your information will be transferred from the Trac recruitment system into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.
Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email sent via the Trac recruitment system, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.
The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.
Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.
All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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