Director of Nursing Deputy Chief Nurse - QEH

Director of Nursing - (Deputy Chief Nurse) - QEH

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
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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.

Provide strategic, professional, and operational leadership for nursing, midwifery, and allied health professional (NMAHP) services across the hospital, ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality, safe, and patient-centred care aligned with Trust objectives, national standards, and regulatory requirements.

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. Ensure excellence and consistency in care delivery across the hospital and positively influence professional practice across the wider Trust.

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. Role model effective triumvirate working through shared leadership, collective decision-making, and mutual accountability, ensuring alignment to agreed site-based objectives and priorities and presenting a consistent leadership approach across the hospital.

Acting as Deputy to the Chief Nurse, provide 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. Ensure all relevant national policy, guidance, and regulatory requirements are implemented cross site, monitored, and appropriately reported to the Trust Board.

Direct the Associate Chief Nurse for Workforce and Education to deliver the Trust Safe Staffing Policy, including ongoing review and development of workforce models.

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 cultivate 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:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify 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

Strategic and Clinical Leadership

You will be a visible and credible clinical leader, setting clear direction and professional standards across all hospital services. Working closely with medical and operational colleagues, you will deliver improvements in performance, quality and patient outcomes, while ensuring nursing and midwifery strategies align with Trust objectives and national policy.

Strategic and Clinical Leadership

You will be a visible and credible clinical leader, setting clear direction and professional standards across all hospital services. Working closely with medical and operational colleagues, you will deliver improvements in performance, quality and patient outcomes, while ensuring nursing and midwifery strategies align with Trust objectives and national policy.

Quality Governance and Patient Safety

As the senior NMAHP quality lead for the hospital, you will establish and maintain effective governance frameworks to monitor safety, quality and experience. You will lead PSIRF implementation, oversee incident learning, audits and assurance processes, and ensure transparent reporting and escalation to Trust committees and the Board.

Operational Performance and Flow

You will provide strategic oversight of end-to-end patient pathways, supporting service redesign,…