Deputy Chief Nurse

Whittington Health NHS Trust is seeking an exceptional, visionary and values driven Deputy Chief Nurse to join our Nursing and Patient Experience Directorate on a 12 month fixed term basis. This crucial senior leadership role supports the Chief Nurse & Director of Allied Health Professionals in delivering safe, compassionate, high quality care across our integrated acute and community services. We are looking for a leader who is committed to excellence, passionate about professional standards, and ready to influence care outcomes for the diverse population we serve.

You Will Bring

• Significant senior nursing leadership experience at divisional/organisation level across acute and community settings.
• Experience leading large teams, managing budgets, and delivering organisational change.
• A deep understanding of quality governance, patient safety, risk, and assurance frameworks.
• Strong communication, influencing and relationship building skills across all professional groups.

Whittington Health is an integrated care organisation with a strong reputation for delivering safe, personal, and coordinated care. You will be part of a senior leadership team with a clear focus on quality, improvement and equity. This fixed term opportunity is ideal for experienced senior leaders seeking to broaden their portfolio or prepare for a future Chief Nurse role.

Reporting to the Chief Nurse and Director of Allied Health Professionals, the post holder will provide nursing and midwifery leadership ensuring patients, and the population we serve, are safe, cared for and listened to.

The Post Holder’s Principle Responsibilities Will Be To

• Deputise for the Chief Nurse across the full portfolio of the Director’s responsibility in their absence and act in his/her place as required including representation at Trust Board level and meetings external to the Trust.
• Support the Chief Nurse to provide professional visible leadership across the organisation to ensure that senior staff understand the contribution required of them to meet professional nursing and midwifery standards and Trust objectives.
• With the Chief Nurse, Assistant Chief Nurse and Associate Directors of Nursing & Midwifery (ADON/M), provide professional leadership to foster a culture of professionalism, compassion excellence and quality improvement, in all aspects of delivery of patient care.
• Support the Chief Nurse in the setting and monitoring of nursing and midwifery staffing levels, skill mix and care contact time across the organisation relating these to patient dependence to ensure effective use of the nursing and midwifery workforce.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.