Deputy Nurse Director

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest and most successful healthcare employers in the UK. We offer fantastic opportunities for career progression, training and development, ensuring that roles are both challenging and rewarding. We are seeking passionate, experienced, highly motivated, and skilled senior nurse leader to join our team of Deputy Nurse Directors. Attributes must include proven professional leadership of nurses.
The post holder will be expected to represent nursing at Trust and National level and will lead on specific projects and work streams on behalf of the Care Group and the Trust., The post holder will support the Nurse Director across the full range of duties, providing strong leadership and professional advice across the multi-professional team to enable high quality patient centred services and care.
The Deputy Nurse Director is actively involved with the governance agenda, working closely with the Medical Clinical Governance Leads and the Care Group Governance Lead, providing support and advice relating to clinical and non-clinical risk.

Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

We are looking for an outstanding Deputy Nurse Director to join the Acute & Emergency Medicine and Pharmacy Care Group (AEMP). AEMP is one of ten Care Groups, incorporating the Acute Medicine and Accident & Emergency Directorate and Pharmacy Directorates.
The post holder will support the Nurse Director and the wider care group in the day to day delivery of clinical business of the service with a primary focus of the delivery of high standards of patient care and services with the care group. Both Directorates within AEMP provide fast-paced and high-profile services seeking to continually improve and shorten lengths of stay for admitted patients and 'time-in department' for patients attending A&E and safely deliver pharmaceutical care to patients attending the Trust's 5 hospital sites and medicines management services to staff across the Trust.

NHS AfC: Band 8b
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we'll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.