Divisional Director of Nursing for Medicine and Emergency Care
| Posting date: | 21 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £109,179.00 to £125,637.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £109179.00 - £125637.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 January 2026 |
| Location: | Gillingham, ME7 5NY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9275-26-0022 |
Summary
Key Responsibilities As Divisional Director of Nursing, you will: Provide professional and clinical leadership for nursing and allied health professional staff across the Medicine & Emergency Care Division. Lead and assure delivery of high-quality, safe and person-centred care, ensuring that the fundamentals of care are consistently delivered. Maintain and strengthen compliance with CQC regulations, including ongoing delivery of improvement actions relating to patient safety, dignity, medicines optimisation and flow. Act as a key divisional leader for quality, patient safety and experience, embedding learning from incidents, complaints, audits and mortality reviews. Work closely with the Divisional Director of Operations and Divisional Medical Director as part of the divisional triumvirate, providing balanced leadership across quality, performance and workforce. Ensure clinical competence, professional standards and workforce capability are maintained and developed, including education, training and succession planning. Lead and support a positive, inclusive and psychologically safe culture where staff feel able to raise concerns and contribute to improvement. Contribute to Trust-wide nursing and quality strategy, including delivery of the Professional Nursing Agenda and stabilisation and improvement priorities