Job summary
- Main area
- Care Group Director of Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (on call requirement)
- Job ref
- 193-7229611NCG
- Employer
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £88,168 - £101,677 per annum.
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Director of Nursing for Networked Care
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’. This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust. Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”
We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions
We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate
We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live
We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice
Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.
Job overview
Care Group Director of Nursing
The purpose of this role is to provide senior strategic nursing leadership in order to ensure and consistently develop a high-quality, cost-effective nursing service for patients. The post holder will support the Executive Director of Nursing in leading the development of the nursing agenda within the Trust. Together with the Care Group Director, the Care Group Director of Operations and the Care Group Director of Finance, the post holder will be responsible for the delivery of operational, financial and quality performance of the services and the strategic objectives of the Care Group.
The Care Group Director of Nursing (CG DoN) will work collaboratively with the Care Group Director to provide assurance to the Executive Team and the Trust Board that robust processes and systems of governance and risk management are in place and that safe and high-quality patient-focused services are delivered.
Main duties of the job
The CG DoN will support the Chief Nurse in the implementation of the corporate nursing agenda, taking a specific strategic and operational lead for the allocated corporate component of the role (Complaints, Patient Experience and Safeguarding). They will participate in the on-call managers’ rota.
Working closely with other professional leaders, the post holder will be required to ensure professional leadership is in place. They will provide expertise and advice on professional, operational and strategic issues within the Trust and across the health economy.
The CG DoN will ensure that the fundamentals of care are delivered effectively within the Care Group its services and departments and that competence in clinical practice is both developed and maintained in order to maximise the patient experience, safety and quality of service.
The CG DoN will ensure the Care Group has an appropriately skilled and qualified nursing and allied health professional workforce, deployed in the most efficient and cost-effective way to deliver high quality care to our patients and clients.
The CG DoN will be accountable for developing the Care Group nursing workforce, including innovation and developments in practice, creating the right environment to retain and develop talent.
Working for our organisation
We are one of the largest hospital foundation trusts in the country, and currently touch the lives of half a million patients in the west of Berkshire every year by providing high quality acute medical and surgical services for our local communities. The Trust strives to provide high quality, compassionate care for our patients and their families.
Our values:
- Compassionate
- Aspirational
- Resourceful
- Excellent
The town of Reading sits on the River Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford, and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as good.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details on the job role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- Master’s degree in Nursing or health related field or evidence of working at this level
- Management/Leadership qualification or proven track record in management/professional leadership role.
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification (e.g. ENB 998, C&G 730 or equivalent)
- Safeguarding Training level 2
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable consolidated experience in nursing and senior nurse roles
- Experience of managing a range of departments in the same role so that post holder is able to manage effectively when not always based in the departments managed
- Experience of developing business cases / business planning
- Understanding of NMC / HPC Code of Practice and requirements of it for the practice and behaviour and its application to the management of staff and self
- Demonstrable experience of effective budgetary management.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of working at an Associate Director of Nursing Level
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Melanie Walker
- Job title
- People & Change Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0118 3226504
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