PLEASE NOTE: INTERVIEWS WILL TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY 07 JULY 2026 IN MANCHESTER
We are seeking a Deputy Chief Nurse with credible clinical leadership and authentic engagement skills who is passionate about supporting us to continue our improvement journey.
GMMH is changing, we have evolved over the past 18 months as we delivered our fundamental requirements during special measures, we are now in the next steps of this work; embedding those changes to ensure that we continue to deliver but also setting new ambitions, to be part of the left shift and delivering care in our communities as well as preparing our workforce for digital innovations to become more efficient and effective in the way we work.
The Deputy Chief Nurse role is critical to supporting the Chief Nurse and the broader professions and quality workforce. If you have high energy, significant clinical curiosity, an absolute passion for delivering for our service users and their communities, an ability to hear hard truths and work through difficult situations to seek the improvement actions to drive change, then this is the role for you. You will be a visible leader who can turn around work promptly in accordance with deadlines, you will be able to work with minimal supervision and provide support to your teams and the broader professional group. A team player you will engage with peer professional and corporate deputies to ensure a joined up approach to delivering GMMH strategies and priorities.
Main duties of the job
For the full duties, please review the Job Description/Person Specification attached.
The post holder will be required to build and maintain good working relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders on a range of business sensitive issues.
Role model appropriate leadership behaviours across the trust.
Lead as the expert in Professional Practice and Quality Assurance; integrating systems and managing effective working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders.
Work closely with the Chief Nurse to support all nurses with their continual personal and professional development and the delivery of the Nursing Plan.
Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, including presenting information about projects and dependencies to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in formal settings.
Manage potentially aggressive and/or antagonistic situations with staff and stakeholders within change programmes for successful outcomes.
Deal with complex and conflicting subject matter problems or in day to day load in workshops, meetings, one on one communications and other events, comprising various parts of the business.
Effective stakeholder management across different departments and at all levels, maintaining relationships with key and high profile stakeholders, such as key strategic regional and national policy makers.
Deputise for the DIPC when required.
About us
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7,000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification
* 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
* Cycle to work scheme
* Salary sacrifice car scheme
* Blue Light Card Discounts
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
* Registered Nurse (Mental Health essential).
* Leadership Qualification
* Evidence of continuous professional development.
* Qualifications in Quality Improvement
* Professional publications
Experience and Knowledge
* Extensive senior clinical managerial and clinical leadership experience
* To have a sound knowledge and have extensive experience of leading on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
* Sound knowledge and experience of strategic oversight of the Infection Prevention and Control agenda
* Experience of developing and maintaining active partnerships with stakeholders in the development of services.
* Sound knowledge of Nursing /professional issues.
* Knowledge and understanding of the key national and policy initiatives and drivers relating to the breadth of services provided by a mental health and community Trust.
* Knowledge and understanding of key NHS issues, including national and local policy drivers. In depth clinical and professional knowledge across a wide scope of services, acquired through training and experience.
* Knowledge and understanding clinical performance systems and the national regulatory frameworks.
* Experience of managing large teams.
* Experience of senior nursing leadership roles within the NHS.
* Extensive senior management/clinical leadership experience with proven track record of managing multi disciplinary teams in a highly complex environment.
* Evidence of strong clinical leadership resulting in high clinical standards.
* Extensive experience of working across organisational boundaries and developing productive partnership arrangements.
* Extensive experience of policy development and implementation across a wide range of services
* Evidence of personal achievements transforming healthcare services and improving patient experience.
* Demonstrable experience of ensuring the provision of clinically safe services.
* Experience of supporting/covering Director roles.
* Experience of deputising for Executive nurse.
* Additional IPC training at strategic level potentially including Water Safety, Vaccination programmes
Skills and Abilities
* Organisational skills able to deliver objectives within an agreed timeframe.
* Highly developed clinical leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams and have them understand the trust performance expectations.
* Credible clinical skills with the competency to adopt evidenced based practice in terms of managing safe clinical services.
* Excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills with service users, carers and significant others. Evidence of strong coproduction skills and experience
* Ability to cope with complex organisational issues and manage competing agendas.
* Highly developed written communication skills.
* Passionate nurse leader with ability to convey vision and provide direction.
* Confident and professional approach.
* Good organisational and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure with competing and ambitious deadlines.
* Presentations- can present concepts and ideas clearly so that other understand what is being communicated.
* Highly motivated, self-aware and personally resilient.
* Able to act as an advocate and representative for Nursing and professional leadership.
* Coaching skills to coach staff
* Strong sense of personal and team accountability with a clear understanding of boundaries around delegated authority.
* Ability to inspire staff with authentic and credible leadership qualities.
* Experience of leading service improvement and using redesign techniques.
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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