Group Chief Nursing Officer
The closing date is 29 June 2026
Main duties of the job
We are now seeking a Group Chief Nursing Officer to join our Board. This critical role will lead our quality and improvement agenda, providing strategic and professional leadership for Nursing, Midwifery, and Allied Health Professionals across the Group. You will shape our clinical strategy, drive new models of care, and champion a culture that is patient‑centred, inclusive, and accountable, playing a key role in the future of care across our Trust.
We are seeking an inspiring, values‑driven nursing leader with significant board‑level experience in a complex, acute setting. You will bring substantial experience in leading quality and clinical transformation, with the confidence to navigate complexity and build trusted relationships at pace. Above all, you will be a visible and inclusive leader who inspires others, champions high professional standards, and consistently puts patients at the centre of decision making.
Qualifications
We want our Board to be as inclusive and diverse as possible, and we are keen to attract candidates who can bring diverse perspectives. We warmly welcome expressions of interest from the widest possible range of backgrounds, particularly those who are under‑represented at board level in the NHS.
Job responsibilities
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.
Person Specification
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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