Recruiting healthcare professionals within Secondary Care @ Practice Plus Group
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If you’re an experienced senior nursing leader ready to shape the future of clinical excellence across a national healthcare organisation, this is your opportunity. Our Associate Chief Nurse plays a pivotal role in driving professional standards, leading transformational change, and ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality care across all Practice Plus Group Secondary Care services.
Working closely with the Chief Nursing Officer, you’ll provide strategic leadership to our nursing and clinical workforce, deputising across her full professional remit. This high-impact role spans hospitals, surgical centres, MSK services, urgent treatment centres and ophthalmology units across the country. With a blend of remote working and planned travel to sites, you’ll influence national priorities and help guide the organisation’s professional and regulatory agenda.
This is an exceptional position for a senior nurse who thrives on visibility, collaboration, and driving innovation that genuinely improves patient experience, safety and clinical outcomes.
Responsibilities
* Act as a senior professional leader for nursing and clinical colleagues across the Secondary Care division, deputising for the Chief Nursing Officer.
* Provide strategic direction around clinical governance, quality improvement, safeguarding (as a level 5 trained safeguarding lead), regulation, patient experience and risk.
* Ensure clinical standards are implemented consistently and effectively across all sites, supporting compliance with CQC and other regulatory requirements.
* Lead, support and develop Heads of Nursing, Heads of Clinical Services and the wider Central Governance team.
* Partner with operational leaders to enhance patient care pathways, strengthen safety cultures and support transformation across hospitals and treatment centres.
* Represent Practice Plus Group at professional, regulatory and cross-system forums, acting as an ambassador for excellence in nursing and AHP practice.
* Support incident, risk and quality governance processes, ensuring learning is embedded and shared across services.
* Lead strategic workforce planning, professional development, role modelling leadership behaviours and celebrating best practice across all care settings.
* Act as Freedom to Speak Up Guardian and contribute to organisation-wide culture, engagement and improvement programmes.
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse status with current NMC registration.
* Significant senior leadership experience across clinical governance, quality improvement, professional regulation or system-wide nursing leadership.
* Deep understanding of nursing strategy, patient safety, safeguarding, and regulatory frameworks.
* Proven ability to lead change, influence diverse stakeholder groups and shape organisational priorities.
* Strong political and organisational awareness, excellent communication and the confidence to represent the organisation externally.
* Experience working across multiple care settings or integrated care systems.
* The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands‑on leadership when needed.
* A values-driven approach that champions teamwork, inclusion, transparency and continuous learning.
* A master’s degree or equivalent advanced leadership training is desirable, though not essential.
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