Care Group Nurse Director post at Swansea Bay University Health Board, offered across three Care Groups: Medicine, Women, Children, Young People and Families, and Integrated Community Services. The job carries senior clinical and professional leadership for nursing and midwifery, with joint accountability for quality, safety and patient experience within a triumvirate leadership team. Full-time at 37.5 hours a week, it includes gold on-call duty, and applicants name their top three Care Group preferences. Candidates need NMC registration and a Masters or equivalent in-depth professional knowledge.
What the job involves
- Lead service transformation and sustainability, contributing to annual and medium-term strategic and operational plans
- Design services to be responsive, efficient and aligned with population health needs and quality standards
- Monitor performance to drive continuous improvement and system-wide impact
- Share joint accountability with the triumvirate leadership team for quality, safety and patient experience
- Provide strategic, operational and professional leadership for nursing and midwifery across the Care Group
- Be clinically accountable for high-quality, safe and compassionate care that prioritises patients and families
- Lead clinical governance and promote learning and improvement
- Ensure patient, family and carer voices shape service design and delivery
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement, learning and compassionate leadership, including staff wellbeing
- Regulate the professional practice of all NMC registrants and oversee workforce development
- Maintain safe staffing levels in line with legislation and service standards, giving assurance to the Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery and the Chief of Care Group
- Take part in the Gold On-Call rota and deputise for the Executive lead
What’s required
Qualifications
- Masters qualification, or evidence of equivalent in-depth professional knowledge and experience
Registration & licences
- NMC registration with appropriate field-specific registration
Experience
- Significant senior leadership experience in a relevant role within an NHS organisation or equivalent, including strategic planning and development
- Implementing or leading a quality management system covering quality control, assurance, planning and improvement
- Working with diverse stakeholders, including external partners, with a track record of influence and engagement
Skills & knowledge
- Extensive knowledge across the nursing and midwifery agenda, quality governance, risk, research and audit, HR, finance and service planning, gained through senior NHS management posts
- Strategic leadership of organisation-wide nursing and midwifery initiatives aligned to national and local priorities, including workforce development
- Sound clinical and operational decision-making in complex scenarios, with risk management and ethical practice
- Interpreting data and implementing quality and safety frameworks that deliver measurable improvements
- Engaging at board level, influencing policy and building multi-professional partnerships across organisational boundaries
- Developing senior nursing leaders through coaching, and leading inclusive, psychologically safe teams through change
Other
- Ability to travel within the geographical area
- Flexibility to work hours as required
Nice to have
- Welsh language skills at levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading and writing
- Postgraduate qualification in healthcare leadership, quality improvement or clinical governance
- Coaching qualification
- Fellowship or membership of a recognised professional body, such as FNF, RCN or QNI
What’s offered
- Professional training and development opportunities
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
