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Deputy Chief Nursing Officer | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 March 2025 |
| Location: | Salford, M6 8HD |
| Company: | Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6907416/236-NCA-AC057-25 |
Summary
The Deputy Chief Nursing Officer is a key member of the senior leadership team. As a highly experienced and credible senior nurse, you will deputise for the Chief Nursing Officer across the full range of executive duties. Working alongside senior nursing and AHP leaders, you will uphold professional standards and ensure high-quality, safe patient care.
You will play a key role in supporting colleagues to deliver high standards of care for patients and families and a positive working environment for nurses, midwives, AHPs, Adult Social Workers, and healthcare support colleagues. You will ensure that, where nursing care and practice standards fall short, there are appropriate plans in place to support improvement.
You will lead the development and implementation of a range of national, system-wide and corporate projects and any related duties at a corporate nursing level.
You will also be expected to work in a triumvirate team with the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and the Deputy Chief Delivery Officer.
We believe in innovation and much of your work will focus on a quality improvement, developing new ideas alongside frontline leaders to enable us to continue to be one of the highest rated Trusts to receive care in the NHS.
We believe that positive change starts with connecting through conversations that bring to life the Results people wish to see; help us reflect on our current Reality; and energise us to envision our Responseto achieve our objectives.
As Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, you will play a key leadership role in advancing safe, personal, and effective clinical and community services across Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, and Salford. Working closely with senior nursing, midwifery, and AHP leaders, as well as deputy executives, you will promote an inclusive culture aligned with our values: Care, Appreciate, Inspire.
Deputising for the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), you will provide expert leadership across all portfolio areas, ensuring high-quality nursing services, advising on standards, and developing clinical strategies for continued success. You will lead on safer staffing, career frameworks, and nursing leadership development, driving excellence through the Nursing Strategy.
The Deputy Chief Nursing Officer will lead on our strategic quality objectives, supported by our values which set the standards of behaviour for all staff. You will actively promote a culture aligned to our values and managerially lead the Healthcare Behaviour Management services through a Trauma-informed lens, working directly to the CNO. Acting on behalf of the Trust, you will liaise with statutory agencies, including the Care Quality Commission and the Nursing & Midwifery Council.
You will foster a culture of engagement, teamwork, and excellence in clinical practice in line with the NCAs Clinical Leadership Model and in line with the Trust values.
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,appreciateandinspire– 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.
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
If you share our passion for delivering excellent, accessible healthcare, helping to create a world where everyone thrives, and would like an informal discussion and further information pleasecontact Hannah Wade, Associate Partner at Odgers Berndtsonwho is supporting the Trust on this appointment process. Hannah can be contacted via emailHannah.Wade@odgersberndtson.com.
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Feb 2025
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