We are seeking an outstanding Director of Nursing/Deputy Chief Nurse to join our leadership team, working closely with the Executive Chief Nurse, Philip Bolton, to shape and deliver our nursing and quality agenda.
This is a high‑profile leadership role with responsibility for supporting the delivery of consistently high‑quality, compassionate care and providing strategic advice to the Trust Board on quality, safety, and patient experience.
Working in partnership with the Executive Team and divisional leaders, you will play a key role in driving performance and continuous improvement across the organisation.
We offer a rewarding and influential opportunity within a modern, well‑resourced Trust, based in a state‑of‑the‑art environment and supported by highly committed, compassionate colleagues.
With patients at the heart of everything we do, this role provides the chance to make a meaningful impact at scale — influencing strategic direction, strengthening our culture of learning, and ensuring we continue to improve how we listen to, learn from, and care for our community.
As a highly experienced and credible senior nurse, the post holder will deputise for the Chief Nurse across the full range of executive duties, with particular focus in offering specialist advice and support to the divisional teams and other directors. The post holder will be responsible for leading the implementation of national and Trust nursing and midwifery policies to ensure the delivery of safe high quality care.
* To work with the Chief Nurse to support the development, implementation and maintenance of trust wide professional nursing/midwifery policy and practice to deliver a high standard of patient care and experience at SFHFT.
* To provide professional leadership and direct line management to the Divisional Nursing teams (6 Heads of Nursing).
* To provide professional leadership and direct line management to the Lead Cancer Nurse, End of life lead nurse and Trusts Head of research.
* To provide corporate leadership to the Safeguarding teams as designated by the Chief Nurse. (including falls, Dementia Learning Disabilities)
* To ensure nursing and midwifery have excellent standards in relation to the patient experience; ensuring patients are safe, have the highest quality of care and are treated with dignity and respect.
* To support the Chief Nurse in the delivery of the Trust’s Quality, Patient Experience, Nursing and other relevant strategies.
We are an award‑winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically‑led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS‑run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Monday 6 Apr 2026
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