Job summary
The Deputy Chief Nursing Officer is a key member of the senior leadership team. As a highly experienced and credible senior nurse, you will deputise for the Chief Nursing Officer across the full range of executive duties. Working alongside senior nursing and AHP leaders, you will uphold professional standards and ensure high-quality, safe patient care.
You will play a key role in supporting colleagues to deliver high standards of care for patients and families and a positive working environment for nurses, midwives, AHPs, Adult Social Workers, and healthcare support colleagues. You will ensure that, where nursing care and practice standards fall short, there are appropriate plans in place to support improvement.
You will lead the development and implementation of a range of national, system-wide and corporate projects and any related duties at a corporate nursing level.
You will also be expected to work in a triumvirate team with the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and the Deputy Chief Delivery Officer.
We believe in innovation and much of your work will focus on a quality improvement, developing new ideas alongside frontline leaders to enable us to continue to be one of the highest rated Trusts to receive care in the NHS.
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Main duties of the job
As Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, you will play a key leadership role in advancing safe, personal, and effective clinical and community services across Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, and Salford. Working closely with senior nursing, midwifery, and AHP leaders, as well as deputy executives, you will promote an inclusive culture aligned with our values: Care, Appreciate, Inspire.
Deputising for the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), you will provide expert leadership across all portfolio areas, ensuring high-quality nursing services, advising on standards, and developing clinical strategies for continued success. You will lead on safer staffing, career frameworks, and nursing leadership development, driving excellence through the Nursing Strategy.
The Deputy Chief Nursing Officer will lead on our strategic quality objectives, supported by our values which set the standards of behaviour for all staff. You will actively promote a culture aligned to our values and managerially lead the Healthcare Behaviour Management services through a Trauma-informed lens, working directly to the CNO. Acting on behalf of the Trust, you will liaise with statutory agencies, including the Care Quality Commission and the Nursing & Midwifery Council.
You will foster a culture of engagement, teamwork, and excellence in clinical practice in line with the NCAs Clinical Leadership Model and in line with the Trust values.
About us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
If you share our passion for delivering excellent, accessible healthcare, helping to create a world where everyone thrives, and would like an informal discussion and further information please contact Hannah Wade, Associate Partner at Odgers Berndtson who is supporting the Trust on this appointment process. Hannah can be contacted via email Hannah.Wade@odgersberndtson.com.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
If you share our passion for delivering excellent, accessible healthcare, helping to create a world where everyone thrives, and would like an informal discussion and further information please contact Hannah Wade, Associate Partner at Odgers Berndtson who is supporting the Trust on this appointment process. Hannah can be contacted via email Hannah.Wade@odgersberndtson.com.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Post registration qualification.
- Graduate.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Masters in health-related subject.
Desirable
- Doctorate in health-related subject
- Post doctoral studies.
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Understanding of integrated health and social care models
- Extensive senior nursing and managerial experience within a large acute Trust.
- Extensive experience as an experienced clinical practitioner.
- Demonstrates breadth and depth of understanding of current NHS Policy and ability to interpret and implement in practice.
- Significant experience across a range of health care priorities.
- Experience in developing clinical teams.
- Experience of working with national programmes and initiatives.
- Experience in managing large scale change successfully.
- Evidence of influence and negotiating skills.
- Evidence of successful change management.
- Evidence of managing projects
- Evidence of managing conflict and deploying successful conflict resolution strategies.
- Evidence of securing funding to support organisational initiatives.
- Ability to work with different disciplines across the health, education, and social care settings.
- Evidence of undertaking audit and contributing to research programmes.
Desirable
- Contributor to research studies.
- Publications
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Post registration qualification.
- Graduate.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Masters in health-related subject.
Desirable
- Doctorate in health-related subject
- Post doctoral studies.
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Understanding of integrated health and social care models
- Extensive senior nursing and managerial experience within a large acute Trust.
- Extensive experience as an experienced clinical practitioner.
- Demonstrates breadth and depth of understanding of current NHS Policy and ability to interpret and implement in practice.
- Significant experience across a range of health care priorities.
- Experience in developing clinical teams.
- Experience of working with national programmes and initiatives.
- Experience in managing large scale change successfully.
- Evidence of influence and negotiating skills.
- Evidence of successful change management.
- Evidence of managing projects
- Evidence of managing conflict and deploying successful conflict resolution strategies.
- Evidence of securing funding to support organisational initiatives.
- Ability to work with different disciplines across the health, education, and social care settings.
- Evidence of undertaking audit and contributing to research programmes.
Desirable
- Contributor to research studies.
- Publications
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).