Deputy Nurse Director
| Posting date: | 21 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £66,582.00 to £77,368.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £66582.00 - £77368.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 May 2026 |
| Location: | Scunthorpe, DN15 7BH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9208-26-0246 |
Summary
Main duties and responsibilities of post holder Patient Care / Clinical Services You will maintain your own clinical practice and ensure a visible presence across wards and departments, acting as a guardian of patient safety and care standards. You will ensure care is patientcentered, evidencebased and aligned with NMC The Code (2015, 2018). You will support the delivery of the Care Groups clinical governance and patient safety agenda, working with the triumvirate/quadrumvirate to monitor effectiveness and drive improvement. You will ensure systems are in place to monitor quality, patient experience, safeguarding compliance, safe staffing and clinical risk, taking action where standards fall short. You will act as a named investigator for incidents under PSIRF, ensuring learning, improvement and robust risk management. You will champion patient and public involvement, ensuring services actively seek and respond to feedback. Knowledge, Training and Experience You will bring significant senior nursing experience, with specialist knowledge of professional leadership, clinical governance, risk, safety and service delivery. You will maintain uptodate professional development and ensure your teams have access to appropriate education, supervision and training. You will contribute to workforce planning, new role development and the future nursing/midwifery education strategy. You will ensure the Care Group meets its responsibilities for preregistration student learning, mentorship, supervision and assessment. Leadership / Management Responsibilities and Development You will provide compassionate, credible and visible leadership, modelling professional behaviours and Trust values. You will linemanage Band 8a Matrons and oversee the leadership structures across your services. You will ensure effective performance management, rostering, absence management and workforce deployment to deliver safe staffing. You will lead defined projects and programmes of work, including service transformation, quality improvement and professional practice development. You will deputise for the Nurse Director as required and contribute to the wider senior nursing leadership agenda across the Group. You will identify clinical risks, lead investigations, ensure risk registers are maintained and oversee implementation of improvement actions. Communications You will communicate complex and sensitive information to individuals and large groups, using negotiation and influencing skills to support change. You will ensure robust communication systems from ward to board and board to ward, enabling transparency, assurance and shared learning. You will produce highquality written reports, governance papers, business cases and briefings for Care Group and divisional meetings. You will engage with patients, families and staff with empathy and professionalism, particularly in challenging or emotional circumstances. Service Development and Improvement You will lead service improvement projects, analysing highly complex data and making evidencebased recommendations to the Care Group leadership. You will identify opportunities for policy, guideline and pathway development, ensuring alignment with national standards and organisational priorities. You will contribute to business planning, annual budget development, capital bids and service development proposals. You will ensure Quality Impact Assessments are completed for all service changes and cost improvement programmes. Research, Audit and Innovation You will ensure clinical audits, patient surveys and quality reviews are undertaken, shared and acted upon. You will support postregistration research activity aligned to Trust priorities and promote a culture of continuous learning and innovation. Freedom to Act You will work autonomously within professional, organisational and statutory frameworks, using expert judgement to make decisions on complex clinical, operational and professional issues. You will interpret highly complex information, analyse risk and provide authoritative nursing advice to the Care Group leadership. You are accountable for ensuring compliance with NMC standards, Trust policies, regulatory requirements and financial governance within your areas of responsibility. For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below. As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide. Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees. We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen. Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues. We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients. We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/ In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement. 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