An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior nurse or allied health professional to join Chesterfield Royal Hospital as Head of Safeguarding and Harm Free Care (Band 8c).
This is a high‑impact leadership role, leading our integrated approach to safeguarding, complex needs, tissue viability and falls prevention across the Trust. You will play a key role in driving improvement, reducing avoidable harm, and ensuring the highest standards of care for our most vulnerable patients.
We are looking for an inspiring and credible clinical leader with significant experience in safeguarding and harm‑free care, who can work at both strategic and operational levels, influence across the organisation and system, and lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver measurable improvements.
If you are passionate about quality, safety and improving patient outcomes, and thrive in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you.
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You will lead a multidisciplinary team and work closely with clinical, operational and system partners to strengthen a culture of prevention, early intervention and continuous improvement.
This role plays a key part in the Trust’s quality and safety agenda, supporting delivery of harm‑free care metrics and ensuring robust governance, assurance and learning across services.
Significant experience in safeguarding and harm‑free care, with evidence of leadership and influence across organisations. Ability to work at both strategic and operational levels and lead multidisciplinary teams.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts with a workforce of around 5,000 staff.
Our staff enjoy a range of benefits including on‑site parking, local discounts, on‑site café and Amazon lockers. There is a cycle‑to‑work scheme with electric vehicle charging points. The Trust provides a hub dedicated to the health and wellbeing of staff, which includes rooms for mindfulness, a gym and shower facilities and programmes to keep you active.