Deputy Chief Nursing Officer
Closing date: 31 May 2026
Due to an internal promotion, we have an exciting opportunity for a substantive Deputy Chief Nursing Officer to join our Trust. This senior leadership role offers the chance to provide visible, compassionate, and strategic nursing leadership across clinical, operational, and corporate teams.
This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career towards a future Chief Nursing Officer role, with dedicated CPD funding to support your growth.
You’ll work closely with colleagues to drive meaningful improvements that positively impact patients and their families.
We’re looking for someone ambitious and tenacious, with a proven track record of leading change, inspiring teams, and championing patient voices at every level.
This is a unique opportunity to:
* Influence strategic direction
* Champion patient‑centred care
* Develop as a future Chief Nursing Officer with CPD support
Main duties of the job
You will lead and drive high-quality, safe patient care and create a positive experience for patients – while enabling staff to thrive – this is central to our organisational vision.
In this key leadership role, you will work closely with the Chief Nursing Officer to shape and implement the Nursing and Midwifery Strategy. A core focus will be developing leadership capacity across nursing, midwifery, and care staff to drive continuous improvements in quality and safety. You will help ensure our services are recognised as compassionate, patient‑centred, and responsive to feedback.
You will also collaborate with the Chief Nursing Officer, Chief Medical Officer and other executive leaders to provide strategic direction for the Trust’s Quality Improvement Strategy. This includes fostering a culture of excellence in patient care, safety and experience.
Working across organisational boundaries with health and social care partners, you will help deliver the best possible outcomes for our patients.
Interviews for this role will take place the week commencing 15th June 2026
Qualifications
* Registered nurse with clinical background and recent experience in acute Trust
* Demonstrable evidence of ongoing continuous professional development
Knowledge
* Recent experience of working at a senior level in the NHS
* In depth knowledge of the current NHS agenda and challenges.
* Ability to interpret national and local policy drivers and translate them into practice.
* Proven ability to manage change within a complex organisation.
* Experience of working with Executive teams and Boards.
* Experience of developing business cases.
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.
Salary: £112,782 to £129,783 a year (pro rata)
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