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 the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
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.
Values
Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open, Together.
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.
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About us
Medway NHS Foundation Trust is a key partner in the care of our local population. We pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
We 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 a half into our Patient First deployment and are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust.
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.
* 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.
Qualifications
* Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience.
* Professionally trained managerially via a recognised management qualification or professional development programme.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
Knowledge
* 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, equivalent to doctorate level.
* Up-to-date knowledge of NHS system reform policy and other key policy drivers.
Experience
* Extensive experience in effective and supportive people management.
* Expert working knowledge of performance management techniques and use of Business Intelligence solutions.
* 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
* 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, 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 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 requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Employer details
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Windmill Road
Gillingham
ME7 5NY
Employer's website
https://www.medway.nhs.uk/
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