Deputy Director of Nursing & Quality
| Posting date: | 25 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 March 2026 |
| Location: | Sheffield, S4 7QQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9457-26-0060 |
Summary
Professional Nursing Leadership Leads on the implementation of SHPU Nursing Plan. Works in strong partnership and collaboration with the Directorate Heads of Nursing/Deputy Head of Nursing to provide professional nursing leadership. Provides strategic advice as required on practice standards, nurse education and safety issues, in accordance with local and national policy and statutory guidance. Provides professional leadership to nursing staff fostering a culture which values continued professional development and strives for excellence. Works collaboratively with other professional leads in developing a culture which embeds clinical quality, patient safety, clinical effectiveness and, monitors its impact to ensure continuous improvement. Oversees the practice placement team and provides supervision to the Lead Nurse for practice placement. To support the nurse education team in ensuring an effective learning environment. Supervises Preceptorship lead nurses and ensures adherence to national frameworks. Works with People partners to deliver nursing recruitment and international nurse recruitment across the directorates, providing supervision to the Nurse Recruitment lead. Advises on HEE CPD funding allocation and management. Ensures delivery of the safer staffing requirements for inpatient environments, working with Safer Staffing Leaders. Leads a multi-disciplinary approach to safer staffing across all clinical teams working in conjunction with professional lead colleagues to ensure transparent staffing reviews aligned to best practice. Delivers training needs analysis framework across SHPU with professional lead colleagues to support skilled and competent workforce. Review and analise proposed legislation pertaining to nursing for potential impact within the organization; prepare reports and plans, and write position papers, advising the Director of Nursing and other department Executives and managers of appropriate action. Represent Nursing & Quality on various committees and task forces, internally and externally including at PLACE and at ICB. Work collaboratively to influence SHPU`s clinical and quality strategies. Be accountable for specific clinical policy maintenance within the nursing/quality portfolio. Provide senior nursing advice around future workforce planning and training to support future models of care which will support the successful development of both formal and informal nursing practice within SHPU. In conjunction with the Deputy Director of People and senior professional colleagues, contribute to workforce planning and new roles development. Promote and ensure an effective coaching leadership style is dominant with all nursing staff across the organisation. Commission and chair complex employee cases. Frequently deputies for the Executive Director of Nursing including leading on corporate projects which span the breadth of the Director of Nursing responsibilities and may not be restricted to nursing, keeping the DoN informed of any events or issues as they arise. Safeguarding In conjunction with the Director of Nursing, ensure the development and implementation of SHPUs safeguarding vision and strategy that enables the fulfilment of statutory duties in relation to safeguarding children and adults. Regularly deputise for the DoN at local Safeguarding Children and Adults Boards, Work closely with the Head of Safeguarding to gain assurance of effective safeguarding services within SHPU. Assess continuous improvement of the standard of safeguarding practices within SHPU through effective communication, involvement and awareness of clinical practices and service provision, teaching, audit, policy development and advice and support to all staff in service development and promotion of best practice for safeguarding children and adults. Clinical Governance & Complaints Provide oversight to the Head of Clinical Governance and Risk to ensure compliance with incident management systems, complaints, CQUINS and Quality account / objective development and reporting aligned to the best practice requirements. Reducing Restrictive Practice Ensure the delivery of the least restrictive practice (LRP) strategy through the supervision and support of the Nurse Consultant for LRP and the RESPECT training team. Chairing appropriate fora to engage with ward teams and experts by experience Clinical Risk Working in partnership with clinical and operational colleagues ensuring delivery of a clinical risk assessment process for teams in SHPU which is evidence based and aligns to best practice. Maintain oversight of ligature anchor point reviews and support best practice in managing ligature use. Support the regular audit and improvement plans for clinical record keeping working closely with the Clinical Effectiveness and Audit team. To ensure that care planning and risk assessments are of a high standard across SHPU. Quality Governance and Leadership Ensure the voice of service users and carers informs the strategy and delivery of the work programmes working closely with the engagement and experience team. Chair key quality Tier II groups, holding members to account for delivery of requirements aligned to workplans, supporting reporting to the Quality Assurance Committee. Working with the Head of Clinical Quality Standards support the delivery of clinical quality / fundamental standard visits. Contribute to Clinical Effectiveness, research, innovation and QI agendas, ensuring communication of performance reaches all staff, working with teams to address any variation in best practice. Work in partnership with PLACE ICB Quality Leads in monitoring safe and effective care to patients/service users. To support SHP in delivering external audits and reports regarding nursing standards and governance. Ensure the clinical governance team deliver timely and compassionate responses to complaints, taking personal responsibility for complex or significant complaints that need senior intervention. Monitor progress against improvement action plans and highlight areas of concern. Ensure the implementation of policies and procedures to ensure they meet the CQC standards for safety. Responsible for the production of the annual quality accounts with support from Clinical Governance Team. They will in addition, be responsible for working in collaboration to provide expert nursing advice to the emergency planning officer, health and safety, estates and informatics to maintain business continuity and response in the case of unforeseen circumstances, or where services are subject to redesign. The post holder will be expected to deputise for the Director of Nursing, Professions and Quality at a variety of forums including Trust Board and at a system level across the footprint in which SHPU operates. The post holder will be required to participate in Out of Hours/On call Arrangements in line with SHPU Policy and any local arrangements. Actively promote and demonstrate SHPU values Finance Shared responsibility for achieving agreed financial objectives across clinical and corporate nursing/quality services. Escalate concerns and potential risks which may impact on the delivery of high-quality safe care. Work with commissioners to identify and achieve local service developments and business growth, and the projection of a positive reputation for nursing. Accountable to the Director of Nursing for significant financial resources and effective budgetary management across the Nursing Directorate as allocated. Holds budgets for direct line reports. In partnership with the Director of Nursing and nominated deputies, ensure robust budgetary management which delivers best value across the nursing directorate.