Job summary
- Main area
- Divisional Deputy Director of Nursing
- Grade
- Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 120-AC190-0825
- Employer
- Velindre Cancer Centre
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Velindre Cancer Centre
- Town
- Cardiff
- Salary
- £92,713 - £106,919 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Director of Nursing, AHP, Health Scientists
Band 8d
Thank you for your interest in working for Velindre Cancer Centre (VCC), which is a committed equal opportunities employer. VCC welcomes applications from people who share our vision;
Velindre University NHS Trust will be recognised locally, nationally and internationally as a renowned organisation of excellence for patient and donor care, education and research.
our values;
- Caring
- Respectful
- Accountable
& who will complement our current experienced and specialist employees who are passionate about working in an organisation with the ambition to provide world class services & care to our patients.
VCC is an amazing place to work & develop your career. It is undertaking a 5 year transformation programme which will enable cancer services to meet the future needs of our patients across South East Wales. Not only will programme see VCC moving into a new purpose built cancer hospital, it will provide opportunities for patients to receive treatments closer to their homes. The infrastructure changes will offer our employees opportunities to work across a number of sites, in new and different ways, create development opportunities & increase flexible working practices.
VCC provides our employees with a favourable salary and reward / staff benefits & support package.
For more information on this vacancy please contact the recruiting manager, who will be pleased to discuss it with you.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
The Trust also reserves the right to close a vacancy early or withdraw an advertisement at any stage of the process, to enable internal staff requiring to be redeployed in suitable roles.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.
Job overview
Here at Velindre Cancer Services we have a new and exciting opportunity for an exceptional, enthusiastic strategic nurse lead to join us as Deputy Director of Nursing, AHP & Health Scientists.
The role is an integral part of the SST Directorate Triumvirate, working in partnership to lead and transform services within the directorate in line with commissioned activity.
The post holder will possess exceptional operational expertise to deliver and evaluate progress in achieving the Trust’s vision in achieving excellence in healthcare, progressing into the new Velindre Cancer Centre (nVCC) in Cardiff. When complete, the new Velindre Cancer Centre will be a world class facility which provides specialist tertiary oncology services to patients across Southeast Wales.
Main duties of the job
The delivery of a directorate and trust wide integrated clinical strategy to continually improve the patient/client experience both locally within the directorate and within the strategy groups within the trust and nationally.
On behalf of the Director of Nursing, AHP & Health Science to effectively translate and implement strategic policy into practice, ensuring that intended benefits to patients/clients and community are realised.
Translate national guidance and direction into local actions for service delivery.
Take a lead role in the development of short- and long-term strategic planning for redesign and modernisation of nursing, AHP and Healthcare science within the service through the IMTP and Strategy Group work, adjusting to meet the changing demands of the service.
To lead and sponsor projects to develop new ways of working and service improvement in line with the strategies and organisational objectives.
To ensure that there is a sustainable workforce plan in place to deliver high quality patient/client care which considers opportunities for multi-disciplinary and skill mix redesign.
To support and be proactive in profiling the business of the service in conjunction with the Head of Communication and manage and respond to press and other media enquiries.
Working for our organisation
Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and our award-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.
Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.
If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.
Visit our website to find out more https://velindre.nhs.wales/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will provide strategic, visible, clinical, professional and compassionate leadership, for nursing, AHP and healthcare science across the directorate. You will also provide high level specialist expertise for service transformation, strategic patient pathway review, patient safety, quality and experience, innovation, efficiency and performance that improves quality of care and patient outcomes, driving transformation through agreed improvement models.
You will possess relevant professional qualifications plus additional specialist management knowledge, acquired through training and experience.
More information on how we are building your new Cancer Centre can be found here
Person specification
Qualifications and Knoweldge
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent qualification, knowledge and/or experience supplemented by highly specialist qualification to doctoral level equivalency.
- Registered Nurse Adult, AHP professional or HealthCare Scientist with current NMC/ HCPC or professional registration.
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development.
- Highly relevant specialist clinical knowledge relating to sphere of responsibilities.
- Clear understanding of the concept and working arrangements of diverse clinical areas
- Detailed understanding of the provision of health services
- High level knowledge of all current issues related to professional nursing, AHP or Healthcare Science practice.
- Highly relevant specialist clinical knowledge
- Clear understanding of the concept and working arrangements of diverse clinical areas and regional work
- Detailed understanding of the provision of health services.
- High level knowledge of all current issues related to professional nursing, AHP & Healthcare Science practice.
- Has a good understanding of research and innovation and can demonstrate how research has influenced their practice
- An appropriate management / leadership qualification
- Improvement qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience at a very senior nursing, AHP or Healthcare Scientist level inclusive of managing large groups of staff with large spans of control
- Highly specialised and in-depth professional knowledge and experience from a range of nursing/AHP or Healthcare Scientist discipline across the services of the Trust.
- Significant senior operational management experience across healthcare sectors
- Experience of developing and implementing governance frameworks to support service delivery and service change
- Extensive personnel, performance management experience.
- Complaint Management Experience. Budgetary management Experience
- People Management Experience
- Performance Management Experience
- Budgetary management Experience
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Advanced decision making skills.
- Ability to analyse complex clinical issues/problems, identify necessary action and make recommendations and follow these through.
- Ability to demonstrate emotional leadership skills and apply to appropriate situations
- Ability to influence, motivate and lead teams of staff
- Good organisational skills
- Highly developed communications skills
- Computer skills, with working knowledge of databases, spreadsheets and presentation packages
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma James
- Job title
- Divisional Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02920 615888
- Additional information
Emma James
Divisional Director of Nursing, AHP's & Healthcare Scientists
02920 615888
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