Are you a senior nursing leader ready to make a Trust-wide impact? We're offering an exciting 12-month secondment opportunity to join the Corporate Nursing team as Deputy Director of Nursing, working directly to the Deputy Chief Nurse.
* Fundamental standards of care
* Quality assurance and clinical governance
* Safer staffing and workforce development
* Patient safety and harm reduction
You’ll be instrumental in driving improvements in care delivery, embedding a culture of continuous learning, and ensuring that patient experience and safety are at the heart of everything we do. As part of the Chief Nursing Officer team, you’ll champion inclusive leadership, support service transformation, and help shape the future of nursing across our organisation.
If you’re passionate about compassionate care, professional excellence, and making a difference at scale, this role is for you. As a senior leader within the Chief Nursing Officer team, you will role‑model the principles of CLM, servant leadership and the NCA’s leadership behaviours to shape culture and service direction. You will secure commitment, lead with integrity, inclusivity, and transparency, and promote collaboration, equity, and psychological safety. Drive patient‑centred care by linking performance data to clinical goals, fostering real‑time responsiveness, and breaking down cross‑specialty barriers. Align nursing, midwifery, and AHP strategies with Trust priorities to reduce inequalities, improve outcomes, and embed a culture of continuous improvement across all care settings.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values – care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work‑life balance.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
The NCA is proud to serve a diverse population and is committed to delivering inclusive, accessible care. We value individuality and aim to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Applications are welcomed from individuals of all backgrounds, identities and beliefs.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex‑personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [email protected]
Vacancies may close early if sufficient applications are received, or if an internal redeployee has been identified.
For fixed‑term roles, current NHS staff will be considered for secondments, while fixed‑term contracts will be offered to external (non‑NHS) applicants.
The NCA does not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies. Read more about this here.
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