Deputy Director of Nursing - BSW

At HCRG Care Group, we believe that the quality of clinical leadership is the single greatest driver of safe, outstanding services. We are looking for an experienced, credible and inspiring nurse leader to join us as Deputy Director of Nursing for our B&NES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Business Unit, a role of genuine influence, strategic reach and clinical impact at a pivotal time for our services.

As the most senior nursing leader in BSW, you will be the professional voice for nursing and AHP colleagues across the business unit. You will be a core member of the BSW Senior Leadership Team, operating as a strategic partner to the Chief Nursing Officer and Regional Director, and providing the kind of visible, accessible clinical leadership that our services and our colleagues deserve.

This is not a desk-based role. We expect you to be a familiar, trusted presence across our BSW services, visible to the full range of colleagues, including those working nights, weekends and in community settings. You will have full autonomy over how you organise your diary to make that happen, but we would expect a commitment of three to four days on-site each week across the BSW footprint.

You can be based anywhere within BSW.

No two weeks will look the same. You may spend a morning with a community nursing team in Swindon, an afternoon in Bath at a quality assurance review, and the following morning providing written assurance to the CNO on a clinical issue.

As Deputy Director of Nursing BSW, you will provide senior clinical leadership across all BSW services, acting as the trusted clinical voice for colleagues, managers and commissioners. You will offer visible, accessible leadership through regular site visits, professional forums and system level engagement, ensuring colleagues feel supported and connected to senior clinical leadership.

You will oversee the delivery of the clinical governance framework, ensuring CQC compliance, statutory requirements and organisational policy are met. You will take accountability for robust Internal Service Reviews, clear action planning and completion, and provide assurance on clinical risk, quality and inspection readiness. When issues arise, you will lead the learning agenda and support Registered Managers to drive meaningful improvement.

You will embed clinical leadership across all transformation programmes, ensuring clinical decision making shapes redesign, workforce models and service changes. You will sign off EQIAs, QIAs, clinical validations and hold delegated authority for research governance.

You will lead safe staffing across BSW, ensuring models reflect safety, standards, acuity, activity and affordability. You will approve establishment reviews, oversee advanced practice roles, and ensure access to training, competency and development pathways.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.

Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular and we may need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we would love to hear from you, so please apply as soon as you can.

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