Divisional Director of Nursing and Midwifery

Posting date:	10 September 2025
Salary:	£117,645.00 to £134,103.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£117645.00 - £134103.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	24 September 2025
Location:	London, SW10 9NH
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	C9289-159

Summary

Professional Leadership To work in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct: standards for conduct, performance and ethics. To be responsible for the professional leadership of nursing and midwifery services within the division, including devising, implementing and reviewing strategies for the development of clinical practice, education, and management and quality issues. To provide clear clinical leadership to the division, ensuring that all professional staff are appropriately managed and developed and that they are therefore efficient, engaged, and highly motivated. To provide management, leadership and direction to the Lead Nurses, Deputy Director of Nursing & Midwifery and Matrons and in collaboration with the Lead Nurses, Assistant Directors of Nursing & Midwifery and Matrons, ensure that nursing / midwifery staff comply with Trust standards and take corrective action where required. With the Divisional Director of Operations and relevant leads, ensure systems are in place to provide professional development through the appraisal system. To develop leadership capability at all levels through role modelling transformational leadership To participate as a key member of the Chief Nurses Cabinet whose role is to provide leadership and direction to the profession with the Chief Nurse Ensure that the Chief Nurse is kept appropriately updated on all professional issues within the maternity service Work with London ambulance service in managing capacity and demand where there is potential for unit closure, ensuring the safety of patients and staff Patient Quality, Safety and Improving the Patient Experience To provide visible senior clinical leadership through back to the floor To be accountable for the direct delivery of clinical care services within the Division on all sites To work with the divisional management team and divisional leads to develop a safety culture that continually improves quality. To ensure processes and systems are in place to monitor and improve quality across clinical areas. To lead the divisional teams in ensuring that all aspects of risk and clinical governance are robustly and effectively managed, by: Overseeing the implementation of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to support monitoring of compliance with internal and external governance and best practice requirements with a particular focus on infection control, integrated care pathways, discharge planning and length of stay. Lead on the compliance with the Care Quality Commissions Essential standards of quality and safety including compliance with the Hygiene Code within the Division, and to take a lead on outcomes as required for each area managed, working closely with corporate leads for governance and risk management Strategy and Service Improvement Collaborate with the Divisional Medical Director & Divisional Director of Operations, as well as with Deputy Directors of Nursing and Midwifery, General Managers and Clinical Directors, in developing the Divisions strategy, and business plan. Working with the Divisional Medical Director & Divisional Director of Operations, as well as Deputy Directors of Nursing and Midwifery, General Managers and Clinical Directors, in the Divisions service improvement projects or development programmes that contribute to the modernisation of patient services, providing both professional and clinical advice as necessary. Where required, to work collaboratively with external partners at senior level in the development of patient pathways and services in relation to the services provided by the Division. Responsible for proposing and developing service/departmental policies including the implementation of policies developed Lead the implementation of a midwifery strategy that supports midwifery-led care, supports the concept of choice, safe and personalised care and continuity of care for all women and birthing people Performance Management Lead relevant aspects of the development and implementation of the Divisions delivery plan by providing direction to the service and business strategy, including: Cross divisional and external partnership working. Focussing on clinical quality standards. Supporting the Divisional Director of Operations in delivering all agreed outputs for the Division. Providing a professional nursing and midwifery perspective on corrective plans where necessary. Ensuring effective action is taken where nursing and midwifery performance is at risk of falling below expected levels (e.g., coaching nursing and midwifery teams and developing corrective plans). Lead on the development of the patient and public involvement (PPI) strategy for maternity via the Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) and other service user groups to achieve sustained, effective dialogue with service users and ensure that their feedback is integral to all service planning and improvement Represent the Trust internally and externally in matters relating specifically to maternity, to include LMNS and ICS To be responsible and accountable for the delivery of financial, quality, performance, human resource management and productivity targets relevant to their areas of responsibility, as agreed as part of the annual business planning Process. Research and Development, Education and Training To lead and undertake the development of the Nursing and Midwifery research and development programme and increase multi-professional research in conjunction with CLAHRC. To coordinate the development of nursing research at divisional level, providing support and advice as required. To work with the Director of Nursing and Executive Director of HR and Organisational Development, taking a divisional lead for pre and post-registration commissioning and workforce design. To oversee that training needs analyses are carried out across the division in order to inform the commissioning process & optimise the development of the divisional teams. To lead in the development and implementation of divisional education and training programmes, and undertaking teaching to staff within the division and corporately as required Communication To develop and maintain excellent communication across the division ensuring that staff are informed and consulted and can contribute their views whilst applying professional challenge where appropriate To network closely with clinical leaders within the division, across divisions, corporately and externally. To contribute to strategy formation and senior organisational decisions, and interpret and explain these to appropriate individuals and teams. To communicate distressing or highly distressing and/or emotional/unwelcome news/ unexpected deaths providing clinical analysis, writing high level reports for internal and external stakeholders Ensure all communication, which may be highly complex, highly contentious or highly sensitive, is undertaken in a responsive and inclusive manner, focusing on improvement and ways to move forward. Personal and People Management and Development To participate in appropriate professional development activities. The post holder is expected to take responsibility for continuing self-development of competence. To line manage and develop Divisional Lead Nurses and Midwives (plus any other senior staff direct reports) and undertake their appraisals including setting and monitoring of objectives and PDPs. To identify personal and professional development needs though regular and annual review plus 360 review to ensure that skills such as facilitation, leadership, supervision, people management, presentation, coaching and mentoring are developed. To work strategically with the Chief Nurse to meet the national nursing and midwifery agenda and professional guidelines. This includes cross-working with other Trust Divisional nurses in addition to your own Divisional team To oversee that an effective recruitment and retention strategy is in place, supporting initiatives to improve the quality of working lives and staff wellbeing Lead divisional staff to implement methods, processes and systems for recruiting, deploying and managing people which support the organisations vision, values, strategies and objectives and comply with legislation, policies and procedures The post holder will be required to participate in the senior manager/midwifery on-call rota, with responsibility for ensuring the safe running of the hospital out of hour Information Collection and Analysis To lead and advise staff in how they gather, analyse, interpret and present relevant data and information. To lead and use research enquiry to plan, implement and evaluate concepts and strategies leading to improvement. To ensure the appropriate contribution of nursing to the continuing development of the Electronic Patient Record and other relevant data systems. To use knowledge and understanding of research, evidence based practice and audit to influence nursing midwifery practice across the Division. Financial Management To take responsibility for the Divisional nursing and midwifery budget, (which includes multiple services across multiple sites) establishing, maintaining and monitoring financial controls to ensure the most cost effective use of the budget and achievement of cost improvement targets/ CIPs. To ensure that managers (ward and Matrons) and those with responsibility for budgets understand SFIs, the financial system and how to monitor and manage all budgetary resources with particular emphasis on the management of bank and agency staff and overseeing of safe cost effective rostering. To oversee all resources to ensure these are deployed to achieve best outcome with reference to the performance contract and business planning. Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.