Deputy Chief Nurse

We are committed to ensuring that all patients at UHD receive quality care, which results in a positive experience for them, their families and carers. Our ambition is to be rated as the safest Trust in the country and every team at UHD is empowered to make continuous improvement by engaging with patients in a meaningful way.
We are seeking a Deputy Chief Nurse with the right values, commitment and energy to support delivery of our Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals strategy and to help us ensure that UHD is a Trust renowned for excellence in quality and safety, that delivers outstanding care to our patients and their families.
The Deputy Chief Nurse role will deputise across the full range of the Chief Nurse portfolio and work with Care Group Directors of Nursing and wider clinical and Allied Health Professionals to promote the highest standards of care and behaviours., We are looking to speak with passionate, empathetic nursing leaders who have significant experience maintaining and providing assurance on clinical governance systems and processes. You will have an excellent track record of improving CQC standards, and help lead a portfolio including clinical policy, workforce strategy, clinical quality and safety, patient experience, complaint resolution, incident reporting and investigation.
This is an exceptional opportunity to join our Trust, and we are looking to speak with inclusive leaders who can work in collaboration with our staff and partners. We are seeking credible and resilient nursing leaders who will help us achieve our vision of providing excellent healthcare for our patients and wider community and ensure UHD is a great place to work, now and for future generations.
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from candidates from the global majority, women, LGBTQ+ communities, and from people with lived experience of disability.
For a confidential conversation, please contact our recruitment partners at Hunter Healthcare; Finn McNulty [email protected]

Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview., + Work with the Chief Nurse and Medical Director and other Executives to provide strategic leadership to the development and implementation of the Quality Improvement Strategy for the Trust, ensuring continuous improvement in standards of patient care, safety, and patient experience. This includes working across boundaries with health and social care organisations to ensure best possible outcomes for patients.
+ Provide professional leadership and advice across the Trust.
+ You will have delegated responsibility to deliver the patient safety, quality and clinical governance portfolios of the Chief Nurse. To achieve this, the post holder will have authority for decision-making in the absence of the Chief Nurse as appropriate and in relation to the role including.
+ Lead the development, implementation and monitoring of the Trust's Nursing, Midwifery and AHP strategy.
+ Ensure Nursing and Midwifery practice is contemporary and in line with national guidance and best practice.
+ Appraise and communicate emerging national policy and guidance and where appropriate translating into practice.
+ Provide highly complex and expert professional advice and direction regarding clinical standards, appropriate treatment and statutory duties regarding clinical care.
+ Supporting the delivery of the Trust's continuous improvement programme, Patient First, implementing a programme approach and ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities.
+ Lead the development of clinical level key performance indicators with reference to the safety goals and with the associated data sets and ensure governance systems are in place to monitor and improve performance at ward and specialty level, including ward performance scorecards, in partnership with the Care Groups.
+ In partnership with the Care Groups, Information Team and Chief Operating Office, support the development of an integrated performance and quality report to ensure the Board are fully cognisant of triangulated quality metrics, analysis, actions and outcomes.
+ Delegated responsibility for delivering Care Quality Commission programmes of work. This will require you to provide leadership to, and work in collaboration with, the Care Group leadership teams to create a culture of learning and improvement underpinned by robust governance systems and processes to monitor and report outcomes.
+ Working with the Head of Safeguarding, lead and support the safeguarding, mental health and learning disability agendas to deliver excellence to our patients and their families, ensuring the voice of the service user or patient is central to service improvement.
+ Support the Chief Nurse in the identification, prioritisation, and development of quality initiatives.
+ Support the Chief Nurse in providing professional leadership to the nursing and midwifery and to the AHP workforce to ensure the delivery of high-quality compassionate care.
+ Support the Trust's staff engagement programme to improve staff health and well-being ensuring Nursing, Midwifery and AHP leadership is compassionate and responsive to staff needs.
Please note:
Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.
This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst this vaccination is not a condition of employment we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Internal Candidates: staff employed prior to merger who voluntarily change jobs will be appointed to UHD terms and conditions.

As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with 'university hospital' status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you'll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we're also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.