Group Chief Nurse | Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust

As an experienced nurse leader, you will bring experience working across systems, leading change, providing visible leadership and ensuring that quality of care sits at the heart of core decision making. You will need to combine outstanding communication and influencing skills with an ability shape strategies and plans and share our absolute commitment and passion to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes.

The NHS Humber Health Partnership is looking for a dynamic, compassionate and patient-focussed Group Chief Nurse.

The Partnership consists two NHS organisations, now working as one group:

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG).

The NHS Humber Health Partnership became a Group orgaisation in August 2023 and now shares a single Executive leadership team and discharges its duties through a Trust Boards in Common structure.

This is one of the largest NHS group organisations in the country, with an operating budget of over £1.4 billion, serving a population of over 1.65 million people. We have an operational delivery model, which consists of 14 clinical care groups that operate across the Group. We have an ambitious transformation programme, to deliver best-in-class outcomes to respond to some of the most challenging patient demographics in the country, and use the skills, talents and leverage of our 19,000 staff to adapt best practice for the benefit of our patients.

Our staff have put together our values as a Group organisation: compassion, honest, respect and teamwork. Together, we are united by compassion: driving for excellence.

This role is a great opportunity for an inspirational leader to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, high-quality care, in an environment of fast-paced change and transformation. You will provide vision and professional leadership to our nursing, midwifery and AHP colleagues across the Group and work closely with partners in the region to develop new and innovative workforce models that will have a far reaching impact on the communities we serve.

Primary base Hull Royal Infirmary, with requirement to work across all group sites on as required.

As a Group, our headline figures are:

1.65 million patient population

214,000 admissions

8,700 births each year

275,000 Emergency Department attendances

1,048,322 outpatients

948,000 patient meals per year

17,322 colleagues (of which 3,623 are BAME and 589 have a disability) plus 1,500 bank staff

542,750 Portering tasks completed

931 tonnes of waste recycled

£1,741,606 donated to Trust charity

The NHS Humber Health Partnership comprises two sovereign NHS organisations. Hull University Teachings Hospitals NHS Trust has two main sites: Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital, with sterile services and an artificial limb unit in the city of Hull. The Trust serves an extended population of 1.65 million, delivering a number of outpatient services from locations across the area, extending from Scarborough in North Yorkshire to Grimsby and Scunthorpe in North East and North Lincolnshire respectively. The Trust is the Major Trauma Centre for this part of Yorkshire and the Humber; it is the tertiary centre for cardiac, thoracic and cardiology care (elective and non-elective); it is a tertiary vascular surgical centre and stroke centre and is also encompasses Queen's Centre for Oncology for Haematology providing services to the extended population.

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust provides the secondary acute and elective services to the populations of North and North East Lincolnshire, as well as the community services to North Lincolnshire. It has had the benefit of capital and revenue investment most recently in its acute and emergency facilities, bringing about two state of the art Emergency Departments, with co-located integrated assessment units and Same Day Emergency Care centres at both the Grimsby (Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital) and Scunthorpe General Hospital sties.

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants

33 days annual leave

A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave

NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme

An extensive range of learning and development opportunities

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.