Children's Care Group Director of Nursing in Doncaster

We are looking for an inspiring nursing leader to help shape the future of our Children's Care Group, with a strong commitment to quality, safety, improvement and transformation. Through visible, compassionate leadership, you will create an inclusive culture where colleagues can flourish and provide brilliant care. You will champion listening and learning, ensuring the experiences of children, young people, families, carers and colleagues shape our services.

You will help develop services with our communities, ensuring they respond to what matters most to local families. If you are a credible, compassionate and ambitious nursing leader passionate about partnership and improving outcomes for children and young people, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide visible, compassionate and inclusive professional leadership across the Children's Care Group.
• Lead and support the nursing workforce, strengthening professional standards and enabling staff to deliver safe, high-quality care.
• Provide senior leadership for quality, clinical governance and patient safety, ensuring learning from incidents, feedback and practice drives improvement.
• Champion quality improvement, research, innovation and evidence-based practice.
• Work in partnership with children, young people, families and communities to co-produce services that build on local strengths and expertise.
• Build strong partnerships across health, education, local authorities and the voluntary and community sector to improve pathways and reduce inequalities.
• Lead transformation across organisational boundaries, creating more joined-up and accessible services.
• Use quality intelligence, outcomes, feedback and lived experience to identify and target improvement.
• Promote an open, inclusive and psychologically safe culture where colleagues feel empowered to speak up, learn, innovate and improve.

About us:

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employs around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected. We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services. We are dedicated to the development of our people and hold a learning half day every month for our colleagues. We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation.

The postholder will provide collaborative, inclusive and compassionate leadership, promoting a positive safety culture based on continuous learning, psychological safety and empowering staff to speak up. Working closely with the leadership team, the postholder will lead and manage the nursing workforce, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality care. They will be responsible for the Care Group's quality governance framework, including quality improvement, risk management, policies, training and audit activity. They will contribute to the strategic direction of services and delivery of the Trust Strategy, while maintaining high professional standards across nursing and wider clinical practice.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: Current RGN RMN or RNLD Nursing Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate specialist training and experience.
• Experience: Substantial senior clinical nursing experience, specialist nursing practice and/or senior clinical experience within the specialty, senior management/leadership experience, experience of leading on research projects and audit, experience of developing and delivering presentations and/or training to large groups, experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders, experience of implementing service change/reconfiguration and modernisation services.
• Knowledge: Working knowledge of Patient Safety, Patient Experience and Quality Improvement policy drivers at national and local level, understanding of clinical risk management and the ability to put this into practice as expert advisor within risk management.
• Skills: Demonstrates an ability to manage complex situations, detailed knowledge of the professional agenda as it relates to nursing, ability to work within and meet clear performance targets and indicators.

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.