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Deputy Chief Nursing Officer - Operational
The closing date is 25 November 2025
Shape the Future of Nursing Across the Northern Care Alliance Are you a visionary senior nursing leader ready to drive transformational change across a dynamic, multi-site NHS Trust? We're recruiting a Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, Operations -- a high-impact leadership role working directly with the Chief Nursing Officer to deliver excellence across the Northern Care Alliance. This is your opportunity to lead with purpose, influence care at scale, and make a lasting difference for patients, staff, and communities. You'll provide strategic oversight and visible leadership acrosso Fundamental standards of care o Quality assurance and clinical governance o Safer staffing and workforce development o Patient safety and harm reduction
Main duties of the job
As a key member of the Chief Nursing Officer team, you’ll champion compassionate, inclusive leadership and help embed a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and improvement. You’ll be at the forefront of service transformation, shaping how nursing evolves to meet the needs of tomorrow. If you’re driven by professional excellence, passionate about safe, high-quality care, and ready to lead with courage and clarity -- this is your moment. Join us. Lead boldly. Make a difference.
About us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Graduate.
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Masters in health-related subject.
Knowledge, Training and Experience
* Understanding of integrated health and social care models
* Extensive senior nursing and managerial experience within a large acute Trust.
* Extensive experience as an experienced clinical practitioner.
* Demonstrates breadth and depth of understanding of current NHS Policy and ability to interpret and implement in practice.
* Significant experience across a range of health care priorities.
* Experience in developing clinical teams.
* Experience of working with national programmes and initiatives.
* Experience in managing large scale change successfully.
* Evidence of influence and negotiating skills.
* Evidence of successful change management.
* Evidence of managing projects
* Evidence of managing conflict and deploying successful conflict resolution strategies.
* Evidence of securing funding to support organisational initiatives.
* Ability to work with different disciplines across the health, education, and social care settings.
* Evidence of undertaking audit and contributing to research programmes.
* Contributor to research studies.
* Publications
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.
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