Chief Nurse: Sponsorship Available

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) is seeking an exceptional Chief Nurse to join its Executive Team and provide visible, influential and compassionate professional leadership at one of the world’s leading centres for babies, children and young people with rare, complex and difficult-to-treat conditions. The development of the new Children’s Cancer Centre, due to open in 2029, alongside opportunities in research, innovation, genomics and AI, creates a unique platform from which the next Chief Nurse can help shape the future of specialist paediatric care.

As Chief Nurse, you will be a Board-level Executive Director, the professional leader of the Trust’s nursing and Allied Health Professional (AHP) workforce, responsible for ensuring that quality of clinical care, patient safety, nursing strategy and professional standards sit at the heart of GOSH’s excellence. Reporting to the Chief Executive, Karl Munslow Ong, and working closely with the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Operating Officer and wider Executive Team, you will play a central role in shaping and delivering the Trust’s strategic ambitions, championing outstanding care, strengthening clinical quality and governance, and ensuring the voice of children, young people and families remains central to decision‑making.

Main duties of the job:

We are looking for an accomplished, credible and values-led nursing leader with substantial senior leadership experience in a large, complex healthcare organisation. You will bring deep knowledge of nursing practice, professional standards, quality improvement, patient safety, clinical governance, assurance, risk management and regulatory frameworks, alongside a successful track record of leading transformation and change. You will be a registered nurse with current NMC registration, able to operate with confidence at Board or Executive level, and capable of inspiring, influencing and uniting multidisciplinary teams around a shared commitment to exceptional care. You will be collaborative, inclusive and resilient, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, sound judgement, and the ability to provide constructive challenge where appropriate. Experience in a specialist, tertiary, children’s healthcare, academic health science or research-intensive environment would be highly advantageous.

This is a rare opportunity to make a distinctive leadership contribution to children’s health, nationally and internationally, helping GOSH continue to advance care for children and young people with rare and complex conditions so they can fulfil their potential.

Person Specification:

• Always welcoming
• Always helpful
• Always expert
• Always one team

Demonstrable commitment to, and evidence of, promoting and championing equality, diversity and inclusion, supported by tangible examples of impact. Demonstrates and promotes accountability and integrity, and leads by example.

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 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.