Job summary
Divisional Director of Nursing - Medicine & Emergency Care
Division: Corporate
Care Group: Operations Directorate
Band: 9
Salary: £109,179 - £125,637 per annum/pro rata
Interview Date: Tuesday 17th March 2026
We are recruiting for a Divisional Director of Nursing - Medicine & Emergency Care who shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best Peopleand has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
The role is central to our ambition to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People ensuring that MEC services are safe, compassionate, responsive and well-led even during sustained operational pressure
The postholder will provide strong, visible, and credible professional leadership across acute medicine, emergency care & associated services with a focus on patient safety, quality improvement, workforce leadership & regulatory compliance
This is a hands on strategic leadership role, requiring presence, grip and the ability to lead complex improvement programmes while supporting and developing senior nursing leaders and multidisciplinary teams.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Details
Date posted
19 February 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 9
Salary
£109,179 to £125,637 a year per annum/pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
DDoN-MEC
Job locations
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Windmill Road
Gillingham
ME7 5NY
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Provide professional and clinical leadership for nursing and allied health professional staff across the Medicine & Emergency Care Division.
Lead and assure delivery of high-quality, safe and person-centred care, ensuring that the fundamentals of care are consistently delivered.
Maintain and strengthen compliance with CQC regulations, including ongoing delivery of improvement actions relating to patient safety, dignity, medicines optimisation and flow.
Act as a key divisional leader for quality, patient safety and experience, embedding learning from incidents, complaints, audits and mortality reviews.
Work closely with the Divisional Director of Operations and Divisional Medical Director as part of the divisional triumvirate, providing balanced leadership across quality, performance and workforce.
Ensure clinical competence, professional standards and workforce capability are maintained and developed, including education, training and succession planning.
Lead and support a positive, inclusive and psychologically safe culture where staff feel able to raise concerns and contribute to improvement.
Contribute to Trust-wide nursing and quality strategy, including delivery of the Professional Nursing Agenda and stabilisation and improvement priorities
You will be:
A senior registered nurse with significant leadership experience at the divisional, director or equivalent level.
Credible, visible and confident in leading in high-pressure clinical environments including emergency and acute care.
Experienced in quality improvement, patient safety, regulatory compliance and governance.
Values-driven, compassionate and committed to developing people and improving patient experience.
Able to balance operational reality with professional standards, providing calm decisive leadership during periods of challenge and change.
Accountability
Professionally accountable to the Chief Nursing Officer for professional nursing standards, quality and the development of nursing services within the Division.
Operationally accountable to the Divisional Director of Operations.
Works closely with Trust executive colleagues and corporate teams to ensure alignment between divisional delivery and Trust priorities
Why Join Us?
Lead one of the Trusts most complex and high-impact clinical divisions.
Make a tangible difference to patient safety, experience and staff wellbeing.
Work closely with an engaged executive team committed to improvement, transparency and learning.
Further develop your executive leadership capability in a visible, influential role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Provide professional and clinical leadership for nursing and allied health professional staff across the Medicine & Emergency Care Division.
Lead and assure delivery of high-quality, safe and person-centred care, ensuring that the fundamentals of care are consistently delivered.
Maintain and strengthen compliance with CQC regulations, including ongoing delivery of improvement actions relating to patient safety, dignity, medicines optimisation and flow.
Act as a key divisional leader for quality, patient safety and experience, embedding learning from incidents, complaints, audits and mortality reviews.
Work closely with the Divisional Director of Operations and Divisional Medical Director as part of the divisional triumvirate, providing balanced leadership across quality, performance and workforce.
Ensure clinical competence, professional standards and workforce capability are maintained and developed, including education, training and succession planning.
Lead and support a positive, inclusive and psychologically safe culture where staff feel able to raise concerns and contribute to improvement.
Contribute to Trust-wide nursing and quality strategy, including delivery of the Professional Nursing Agenda and stabilisation and improvement priorities
You will be:
A senior registered nurse with significant leadership experience at the divisional, director or equivalent level.
Credible, visible and confident in leading in high-pressure clinical environments including emergency and acute care.
Experienced in quality improvement, patient safety, regulatory compliance and governance.
Values-driven, compassionate and committed to developing people and improving patient experience.
Able to balance operational reality with professional standards, providing calm decisive leadership during periods of challenge and change.
Accountability
Professionally accountable to the Chief Nursing Officer for professional nursing standards, quality and the development of nursing services within the Division.
Operationally accountable to the Divisional Director of Operations.
Works closely with Trust executive colleagues and corporate teams to ensure alignment between divisional delivery and Trust priorities
Why Join Us?
Lead one of the Trusts most complex and high-impact clinical divisions.
Make a tangible difference to patient safety, experience and staff wellbeing.
Work closely with an engaged executive team committed to improvement, transparency and learning.
Further develop your executive leadership capability in a visible, influential role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
* Professionally trained managerially either via a recognised management qualification or a recognised professional development programme
* Evidence of continued professional development
Knowledge
Essential
* Knowledge of finance & HR Policies and Procedures in the NHS
* Clear understanding of transformation programmes and service development and improvement
* Extensive specialist knowledge of the NHS & Social Care, equivalenet to doctorate level, including infrastructure and arrangements at national, regional and local levels
* Up-to-date knowledge of NHS system reform policy and other key policy drivers. (Performance Management, operating Framework, capacity planning, payment by results, independent sector development and Foundation Trust issues)
Experience
Essential
* Extensive experience in effective and supportive people management
* Expert working knowledge of performance management techniques and of using Business Intelligence solutions to work within a performance management framework
* Demonstrable and extensive experience of working at a Divisional Management Director level
* Extensive and broad ranging experience leading multiple clinical services
* Demonstrable, significant experience in implementing innovative clinically led services
* Evidence to support programme of personal and professional development
* Proven experience of successfully managing divisional-wide budgets and delivery of Trust-wide productivity and efficiency programmes
* Proven experience of leading change through people, by effective and engaging leadership
* Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
Skills
Essential
* Demonstrable ability in inter-agency communication and negotiation; including collaborative working
* Ability to analyse highly complex and contentious issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
* Extensive demonstrable experience of strategic planning across divisions
* Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
* Demonstrable ability in implementing change and evaluation (in complex and changing environments to deliver sustainable services)
* Ability to communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information orally and in writing, both internally and externally, to a range of audiences
* Ability to prepare and deliver presentations and reports to a high standard (Board level quality)
* Ability to analyse and interpret highly complex information and to make judgements regarding a range of highly complex management issues
* Ability to plan, manage, adjust and deliver complex projects, involving multiple agencies and individuals and a broad range of activities, to tight deadlines
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
* Professionally trained managerially either via a recognised management qualification or a recognised professional development programme
* Evidence of continued professional development
Knowledge
Essential
* Knowledge of finance & HR Policies and Procedures in the NHS
* Clear understanding of transformation programmes and service development and improvement
* Extensive specialist knowledge of the NHS & Social Care, equivalenet to doctorate level, including infrastructure and arrangements at national, regional and local levels
* Up-to-date knowledge of NHS system reform policy and other key policy drivers. (Performance Management, operating Framework, capacity planning, payment by results, independent sector development and Foundation Trust issues)
Experience
Essential
* Extensive experience in effective and supportive people management
* Expert working knowledge of performance management techniques and of using Business Intelligence solutions to work within a performance management framework
* Demonstrable and extensive experience of working at a Divisional Management Director level
* Extensive and broad ranging experience leading multiple clinical services
* Demonstrable, significant experience in implementing innovative clinically led services
* Evidence to support programme of personal and professional development
* Proven experience of successfully managing divisional-wide budgets and delivery of Trust-wide productivity and efficiency programmes
* Proven experience of leading change through people, by effective and engaging leadership
* Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
Skills
Essential
* Demonstrable ability in inter-agency communication and negotiation; including collaborative working
* Ability to analyse highly complex and contentious issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
* Extensive demonstrable experience of strategic planning across divisions
* Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
* Demonstrable ability in implementing change and evaluation (in complex and changing environments to deliver sustainable services)
* Ability to communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information orally and in writing, both internally and externally, to a range of audiences
* Ability to prepare and deliver presentations and reports to a high standard (Board level quality)
* Ability to analyse and interpret highly complex information and to make judgements regarding a range of highly complex management issues
* Ability to plan, manage, adjust and deliver complex projects, involving multiple agencies and individuals and a broad range of activities, to tight deadlines
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Windmill Road
Gillingham
ME7 5NY
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Employer details
Employer name
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Windmill Road
Gillingham
ME7 5NY
Employer's website
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