Chief Nursing Officer

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	22 Gorffennaf 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	Negotiable
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	14 Awst 2025
Lleoliad:	Norwich, NR1 2DH
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9234-AHG-A040958-CNO

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Job Description Job Title: Group Chief Nursing Officer Accountable to: Group Chief Executive Pay Band: Very Senior Manager Job Purpose The Group Chief Nurse provides professional leadership for nursing, midwifery, and allied health professionals. The post holder is Executive lead for Patient Engagement and Experience, Safeguarding, Maternity Services, Infection Prevention and Control functions. The Group Chief Nurse is also Executive lead for CQC and provides shared leadership across the portfolio of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety with the group Chief Medical Officer, ensuring we provide high quality, safe and compassionate care across our group of hospitals. Working in partnership with the Group Chief Medical Officer and Hospital Chief Nurses, the postholder will ensure that we take a multidisciplinary approach to our clinical care and that we make quality and patient experience of paramount importance and have the right governance framework in place to manage quality issues. The Group Chief Nurse and Group Chief Medical Officer will play a leading role in the Groups academic mission. Working closely with colleagues from the University of East Anglia and research organisations the post will help lay some strong foundations for the Group becoming an academic health science system. The Group Chief Nurse will also ensure that we hear the patient voice, listening to what people say about care and learning and improving as a result. We will ensure that we leverage the benefits of the Group model so that patients get the same quality of care across their hospitals and that we maximise productivity wherever we can. Our commitment to continuous quality improvement will require working across the Group to take advantage of clinical transformation opportunities and deploying them in our hospitals. As professional lead for our nursing, midwifery and AHP workforce, the Group Chief Nurse will create a culture of improvement and an aspiration to provide the best clinical services to our patients. The Group Chief Nurse fosters a culture which values our people and of continuing professional development; strives for excellence in all aspects of the delivery of high-quality patient care; ensures staff and patients are listened to and puts systems in place to enable learning to be put into practice. The Group Chief Nurse will work with the Group Chief Medical Officer to jointly lead the development and implementation of new evidence-based models of care and help standardise protocols to reduce unwanted variation, improve care outcomes, and tackle health inequalities. They will ensure that clinical practice, underpinned by a digital and research focus, continuously improves patient safety, promotes efficient working practices and the transfer of care between settings. As Group executive lead from Maternity, the post holder will ensure we have an appropriate strategy for maternity services and will also strengthen our clinical governance across the Group. The Group Chief Nurse works with system partners to provide system leadership with HEI's to ensure that the Group has a professional workforce that is fit for practise and fit for the future. The Chief Group Nurse is a voting member of the Group Board. Key Responsibilities Executive Function To lead and support the Hospital Chief Nurses to provide local nursing and AHP leadership to each of our sites Working with clinical and academic colleagues, play a leading role in developing the academic mission to accelerate the integration of research, clinical services, education and training Advise the Group Board and Executive on patient care, nursing and AHP issues To play a key role in the development of our clinical strategy, engaging the nursing midwifery and AHP professions, to ensure that these strategies are owned across the Group Working with the Group CEO and executive team to optimise opportunities for the improvement of clinical shared services for the Group Ensure patients are cared for in the most appropriate settings and support colleagues in driving improvements in the Neighbourhood Health Model to improve equity of access, to appropriate and timely health services Ensuring the needs of our underserved communities are considered over the whole pathway of care To look outwards to the wider healthcare environment to anticipate national issues that may support or prevent delivery of our plans To harness best practise from across the NHS and beyond to ensure that we adopt best clinical practise across the Group, learning from others and incorporating best practises from elsewhere To identify clinical transformation opportunities that will help us improve services and level up across the Group, leveraging the advantages of digital innovation and support delivery locally To work with other Group director colleagues and provide leadership to Group wide initiatives, ensuring we are financially sustainable and have a clear plan to optimise our workforce In conjunction with the Group Chief Medical Officer and Group Chief Delivery Officer, lead the development of Specialty Clinical Networks, ensuring adoption of clinical best practice and standardisation and where appropriate, encouraging cross site working As Executive lead for Maternity Services, the post holder will work with Group colleagues to ensure we have an appropriate maternity and neonatal strategy that will deliver the best possible outcomes and comply with external regulatory requirements. Clinical Leadership Working through the Hospital Chief Nurses, provide clinical leadership to the nursing midwifery and AHP professions in the Group, building high calibre, high performing, multidisciplinary clinical teams, attracting and retaining the best clinical talent to our hospitals To advise on all Nursing Midwifery and AHP matters, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements and managing our key clinical risks as a Group Working jointly with the Chief Medical Officer to ensure the Group provides safe and compassionate care, building a culture of continuous improvement and creating a governance framework to prioritise quality outcomes for patients Ensure there are effective clinical safety, professional standards, and workforce management policy framework in place for nurses and midwives, and AHPs, supported by procedures, training, and sound revalidation process as is necessary to meet and exceed the safety and quality objectives of the Group Talent Management Working with our Hospital Chief Nurses, provide leadership in practice education, development and workforce issues for nurses, midwives and AHPs and provide leadership to support and embed talent management strategies and succession planning approaches across the professions To develop innovative workforce plans to retain post graduate staff Working with the Group Chief Medical Officer to shape our educational programmes helping to keep our staff at the forefront of their professions Working in liaison with the Group Chief People Officer, lead the development and review of workforce plans for nursing, midwifery and AHP staff, advising the Board on issues relating to safe staffing levels, skill mix and the deployment and utilisation of clinical roles; using innovative staffing models to tackle workforce gaps Working with the Group Chief Delivery Officer to develop systems of mutual aid that delivers a flexible workforce that can respond to changes in demand Work with education providers and commissioners, to ensure the effective delivery of the educational contract and the provision of high calibre post graduate clinical staff. Clinical Quality and Governance Working closely with the Hospital Chief Nurses, Managing Directors and Clinical Directors, setting the clinical standards and ensuring that these are delivered across our hospitals, and providing challenge and support as required To support the Group to meet its statutory responsibilities in adherence to its constitution, national policy, and practise in all the post holders key areas of responsibility In conjunction with the Group Chief Medical Officer ensure that appropriate assurance is brought to the board in Quality, Patient Safety, and Safe Staffing levels, through regular audits, management, and investigation of incidents, and appropriate insight into available data Develop and systematically review nursing and midwifery policies and procedures, creating alignment across the Group and ensuring that there is a focus on quality of nursing practice and management at ward and departmental level Develop and systematically review AHP policies and procedures, creating alignment across the Group and ensuring that there is a focus on quality of practice and prevention Executive lead for Safeguarding, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient and community engagement and experience, and quality governance Lead Executive for the Group in our relationship with CQC and preparation for response and inspections.Other Represent the Group at regional and national levels on professional medical issues, developing partnerships, sharing best practise, and integrating this knowledge within the Group To take part in the on-call rota, and provide practical leadership, advice, and guidance during specific periods. The duties and responsibilities set out in this job description are subject to amendment from time to time. Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details.