Deputy Chief Nurse

Job summary

We are looking for an inspirational Deputy Chief Nurse to join the corporate team at MFT. Together with the wider Director of Nursing, Midwifery, and Allied Health Professional colleagues, you will take responsibility for the quality of care provided to patients and leadership of the professional workforce, you will also support the Chief Nurse in the delivery of the portfolios covering Safeguarding, Workforce & Safe Staffing, Patient Experience, and Infection Prevention and Control.

As DeputyChief Nurse you will promote a culture where colleagues feel safe to raise concerns and provide professional leadership of the nursing, midwifery, and allied health workforce while remaining in line with our values and policies. You will support the Chief Nurse in further developing and enhancing our academic and research partnerships to ensure that we continue our important research and innovation work and provide a high-quality learning environment for clinical professionals.

Main duties of the job

As our successful candidate, you have a significant leadership track record within a complex healthcare setting and must have a demonstrable commitment to putting patients first, have a vision for innovative clinical service delivery, and be a genuine role model for our clinical workforce. You will also demonstrate the inclusive leadership abilities needed to develop a high-quality working environment, embedding our values in every aspect of our organisation's work.

In joining our Trust at this critical juncture, you will have the opportunity to work alongside ambitious and committed colleagues and will be instrumental in shaping and delivering real sustainable innovation and improvement in the delivery of our patient's services.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.