Director of Nursing Deputy Chief Nurse - QEH

Overview

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of nursing, midwifery and allied health professional services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital as Director of Nursing and Deputy Chief Nurse.

Reporting to the Chief Nurse, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across the hospital, ensuring the delivery of consistently high-quality, safe and compassionate care. Working as part of the hospital triumvirate alongside the Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Medical Officer, you will play a pivotal role in driving performance, quality improvement and workforce development at site level, while influencing practice across the wider Trust.

This role combines visible clinical leadership with executive-level influence. You will inspire and develop senior leaders, strengthen quality governance, and lead workforce and education strategy to support sustainable, patient-centred services aligned to national standards and Trust priorities.

• Lead and advance clinical leadership across nursing, midwifery, and allied health professions by inspiring and developing teams, setting clear priorities, solving complex problems, and driving delivery against agreed action plans.
• Work collaboratively as part of the hospital triumvirate with the Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Medical Officer to lead operational and quality improvement, achieve national performance standards, and deliver the site and clinical strategy.
• Act as Deputy to the Chief Nurse, providing line management and professional leadership to the Associate Chief Nurse for Workforce and Education, ensuring the development and delivery of a comprehensive workforce and education strategy.
• Direct the Associate Chief Nurse for Workforce and Education to deliver the Trust Safe Staffing Policy, including ongoing review and development of workforce models.

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from Black, Asian, and ethnic minority backgrounds, identifying as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development.
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability.
• Improving the experience of staff with disability.
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of Trust staff through training and development.
• Making equalities mainstream.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivating a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations.