Job summary
We are seeking to appoint a talented Interim Chief Nurse and Patient Safety Officer to provide strong professional leadership for Nurses/Allied Health Professional setting a standard and direction at a time of great challenge for the NHS.
The role is available for a period of 6 months on a fixed term contract basis.
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist provider, dealing primarily with elective Orthopaedics from Shropshire, North and Mid Wales. It also boasts a dedicated spinal injuries unit and a bone and soft tissue tumour service.
With a reputation for innovation, the Trust provides a comprehensive range of musculoskeletal surgical, medical and rehabilitation services locally, nationally, and internationally. We are at the cutting edge of medical excellence, with a growing research programme.
To register your interest in the first instance, please contact Mary Bardsley, Assistant Trust Secretary, mary.bardsley@nhs.net for a full job information pack.
How to apply Applications should be made by sending your CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability for the role to mary.bardsley@nhs.net. Please DO NOT apply through completion of the application form. Applications to be submitted no later than midnight 11 July 2025.
Due to the required timescales there is a shorter than usual closing date for submission of applications.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an exceptional clinical leader who has a passion for excellence and wants to make a difference. You will be determined but compassionate, action orientated, have a talent for inspiring and motivating teams, with a track-record of delivery.
You will have had experience of strategically driving quality and safety improvements in a complex environment, working with senior leadership teams and boards. In addition, this post also carries lead responsibility for Patient Safety and Governance agenda. The postholder must be able to demonstrate robust experience of Board oversight and assurance of risk management in the Trust.
About us
Located in the beautiful Shropshire countryside, on the Welsh border, with excellent transport links, to airports, trains, and motorways this represents an outstanding opportunity for a high calibre candidate.
The Trust actively seeks and encourages applications from diverse backgrounds.
In the National Staff Survey, 74% of our staff would recommend the Trust as a place to work and 92% would recommend the hospital to a friend or relative for treatment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Providing professional leadership for Nurses and AHPs within the Trust, setting standards and ensuring the delivery of compassionate, caring and effective patient and family centred services.
Service improvement and operational delivery of safe services, ensuring patients receive accessible, timely care.
Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults ensuring systems, policies and processes are in place to support the national and local agenda around safeguarding.
Director Infection Prevention and Control (DIPC)
Leading on contracting in relation to quality, overseeing achievement of standards and CQUINS.
Leading the corporate nursing agenda, ensuring Board assurance of the quality of care, including metrics to enable Ward to Board reporting with real time patient information to support clinicians in decision making.
Providing strategic leadership and direction to Board Assurance, Risk Management, Governance and Health Care Regulation within the Trust, taking responsibility for quality standards, patient experience and litigation, fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, learning and sharing.
Acting as Deputy Caldicott Guardian, supporting the Information Governance agenda.
Leading the patient experience and public engagement agenda and delivering improvement because of patient feedback, including national patient surveys and friends and family test.
Ensure delivery of excellence in PLACE assessments.
Championing the transformation agenda using improvement methodologies and principles to enhance delivery of quality and efficiency.
Ensuring that the organisation is, from a clinical governance perspective, viewed as Safe, Caring, Effective, Responsive, and well-led, by patients, partners, stakeholders, and regulators.
Stakeholder engagement, ICS, NHSE and CQC.
Accountable Officer for controlled drugs.
All Directors are expected to work as part of a cohesive Executive team and, when necessary, take lead responsibility for corporate duties outside of their immediate sphere of accountability, and participate in the Director on-call arrangement.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker Sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Job seekers should be aware that not all roles will be eligible for Skilled Worker Sponsorship. For further information visit UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
**Please note that we have no access to OSCE support courses, and nurses pending registration are welcome to apply but must be able to evidence that they have satisfied the NMC Objective Structured Clinical Examination Test of Competence**
Job description
Job responsibilities
Providing professional leadership for Nurses and AHPs within the Trust, setting standards and ensuring the delivery of compassionate, caring and effective patient and family centred services.
Service improvement and operational delivery of safe services, ensuring patients receive accessible, timely care.
Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults ensuring systems, policies and processes are in place to support the national and local agenda around safeguarding.
Director Infection Prevention and Control (DIPC)
Leading on contracting in relation to quality, overseeing achievement of standards and CQUINS.
Leading the corporate nursing agenda, ensuring Board assurance of the quality of care, including metrics to enable Ward to Board reporting with real time patient information to support clinicians in decision making.
Providing strategic leadership and direction to Board Assurance, Risk Management, Governance and Health Care Regulation within the Trust, taking responsibility for quality standards, patient experience and litigation, fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, learning and sharing.
Acting as Deputy Caldicott Guardian, supporting the Information Governance agenda.
Leading the patient experience and public engagement agenda and delivering improvement because of patient feedback, including national patient surveys and friends and family test.
Ensure delivery of excellence in PLACE assessments.
Championing the transformation agenda using improvement methodologies and principles to enhance delivery of quality and efficiency.
Ensuring that the organisation is, from a clinical governance perspective, viewed as Safe, Caring, Effective, Responsive, and well-led, by patients, partners, stakeholders, and regulators.
Stakeholder engagement, ICS, NHSE and CQC.
Accountable Officer for controlled drugs.
All Directors are expected to work as part of a cohesive Executive team and, when necessary, take lead responsibility for corporate duties outside of their immediate sphere of accountability, and participate in the Director on-call arrangement.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker Sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Job seekers should be aware that not all roles will be eligible for Skilled Worker Sponsorship. For further information visit UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
**Please note that we have no access to OSCE support courses, and nurses pending registration are welcome to apply but must be able to evidence that they have satisfied the NMC Objective Structured Clinical Examination Test of Competence**
Person Specification
Qualifications and development
Essential
- Registered nurse with valid NMC Registraton
- Masters degree in relevant subject or MBA
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Two years' nurse management and leadership experience at a senior level in a Trust and experience at Deputy Director level in an NHS Acute Trust.
- Evidence of successfully leading significant organisational change in developing new models of healthcare delivery.
- Working with clinical teams and senior colleagues towards the formulation of service strategies and business plans.
- An understanding of healthcare planning process and key national healthcare issues.
- Experience of building successful alliances with healthcare partners, the independent sector and patient and public representative groups.
Desirable
- Experience as a Chief Nurse or interim Chief Nurse
- Experience of system wide working
Leadership and management skills
Essential
- Highly effective communication skills - must be able to articulate complex issues to a wide range of recipients, both written and verbally.
- Excellent presentation skills with the ability to engage and influence diverse audiences.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills to meet competing priorities
- Demonstrates strong commitment to action to achieve equality and diversity in the NHS workforce and for the community
- Exhibits a drive, energy and enthusiasm and resilience to drive through and achieve end results and improvements
- Strong interpersonal and negotiating skills, with the ability to engage, build and sustain relationships, both within the Trust and within external organisations
- Able to demonstrate sound financial management skills and understand a business centred approach to healthcare provision
- Leads by example through demonstration of the RJAH values and Leadership Charter
Person Specification
Qualifications and development
Essential
- Registered nurse with valid NMC Registraton
- Masters degree in relevant subject or MBA
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Two years' nurse management and leadership experience at a senior level in a Trust and experience at Deputy Director level in an NHS Acute Trust.
- Evidence of successfully leading significant organisational change in developing new models of healthcare delivery.
- Working with clinical teams and senior colleagues towards the formulation of service strategies and business plans.
- An understanding of healthcare planning process and key national healthcare issues.
- Experience of building successful alliances with healthcare partners, the independent sector and patient and public representative groups.
Desirable
- Experience as a Chief Nurse or interim Chief Nurse
- Experience of system wide working
Leadership and management skills
Essential
- Highly effective communication skills - must be able to articulate complex issues to a wide range of recipients, both written and verbally.
- Excellent presentation skills with the ability to engage and influence diverse audiences.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills to meet competing priorities
- Demonstrates strong commitment to action to achieve equality and diversity in the NHS workforce and for the community
- Exhibits a drive, energy and enthusiasm and resilience to drive through and achieve end results and improvements
- Strong interpersonal and negotiating skills, with the ability to engage, build and sustain relationships, both within the Trust and within external organisations
- Able to demonstrate sound financial management skills and understand a business centred approach to healthcare provision
- Leads by example through demonstration of the RJAH values and Leadership Charter
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHSFT
Oswestry
SY10 7AG
Employer's website
https://www.rjah.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
