Job summary
- Main area
- Head of Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 120-AC186-0825
- Employer
- Velindre Cancer Centre
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Velindre Cancer Centre
- Town
- Cardiff
- Salary
- £78,120 - £90,013 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Nursing
NHS AfC: Band 8c
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
Are you an inclusive, compassionate, nurse leader with a significant track record of regional / partnership working and transformational change to help us on our exciting journey?
Come and join us here at Velindre Cancer Services!
As the post holder you will be an integral part of the Directorate Triumvirate, working in partnership with the General Manager and Clinical Director at Velinde Cancer Services, 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.
You will possess exceptional operational expertise to deliver and evaluate progress in achieving the Trust’s vision in achieving excellence in healthcare. Providing visible, clinical, professional and compassionate leadership, for nursing across the directorate.
As post holder 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
Main duties of the job
· You will be professionally accountable for the delivery of high quality, safe and effective care for services within the sphere of responsibility.
The post holder will actively develop a culture of quality, improvement and productivity to improve patient/client care and services by analysis of complex data and information (such as PREMS, PROMS, DATIX), developing and implementing solutions to enhance quality and meet performance targets in line with the Trusts Quality and Patient Safety Governance Framework.
You will promote and role model the Trusts values, leadership expectations and behaviours, endorsing the principle of the Values and Behaviours. The individual will be an advocate for diversity and equal opportunities in all business and services provided by the Trust.
You will lead on identifying and cascading appropriate challenging goals and objectives ensuring that the vision, values and strategic themes of the Trust are translated into clear goals and objectives in business and workforce plans and PDRs.
The individual will lead a culture of ensuring patient/client safety through adherence to legal obligations and safety requirements by reviewing and challenging risks and progress on plans to reduce risk.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
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 1994, 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 be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications / Knowldege
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters Level or equivalent qualification, knowledge and/or experience supplemented by highly specialist qualification
- Professional NMC registration applicable to area of practice.
- 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 practice
- Has a good understanding of research and can demonstrate how research has influenced their practice.
Experince
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience at a very senior nursing level.
- Highly specialised and in-depth professional knowledge and experience from a range of nursing/midwifery disciplines across the services of the UHB.
- 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
- People management experience
- Performance management experience.
- Budgetary management experience.
- Managing change experience
- Experience of strategic business case development
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
02920 615888
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