Job summary
- Main area
- Family Health
- Grade
- Band 8C
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 265-7407291
- Employer
- Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northampton General Hospital
- Town
- Northampton
- Salary
- £76,965 - £88,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
UHN Deputy Head of Nursing - Family Health
Band 8C
Job overview
Are you an inspirational and dynamic nursing leader looking for your next challenge? Do you have a passion for urgent and emergency care and a drive to make a real difference to patients, colleagues, and services?
You will support the Head of Nursing Family Health in strategic and operational decision-making, working collaboratively across UHN. Innovation and transformation will be key to this role, as you embed best practice and improve patient pathways. As a visible and supportive leader, you will develop and empower teams to excel in emergency care delivery.
Managerially accountable to the Head of Nursing and Professionally accountable to the Chief Nurse.
The post holder will have operational responsibility for ensuring the delivery of clinical quality standards, patient safety, and the overall patient experience in the Division, providing professional leadership, advice, and support for the Division to ensure that there is a consistency of practice high standards of care with a strong patient safety focus.
Working with a vision of delivering the UHN Values, the Deputy Head of nursing will support the Head of Nursing and the Division Triumvirate to provide professional leadership management to the Nursing service for the Division.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an experienced nursing leader with significant experience in Family Health and a proven track record of leading service improvements. Strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills are essential, along with a commitment to patient safety, quality improvement, and staff development. You will need the ability to work under pressure, make sound clinical and operational decisions, and drive continuous improvement.
If you are a motivated and experienced nursing leader who is ready to take the next step in your career, we would love to hear from you.
Support the Head of Nursing to deliver a safe sustainable affordable Nursing workforce across the Division.
Working alongside the Head of Nursing the Deputy Head of Nursing will be responsible for the care and professional practice delivered within a significantly large Division. This would equate to a nursing (registered and unregistered) workforce of more than 550 funded whole time equivalent staff and could cover more than one hospital site.
However, the area of responsibility may be smaller in size and volume if there is a requirement for large scale change of service or that the complexities of the service are significant. Complexities of the service may come from the national profile that the specialty attracts or the consistent need to engage and work with stakeholders/agencies outside of the organisation.
Working for our organisation
**Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications**
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values
- Compassion
- Accountability
- Respect
- Integrity
- Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is an opportunity to be part of a progressive and ambitious healthcare organisation committed to delivering outstanding emergency care. You will work alongside passionate and skilled professionals in a fast-moving and supportive environment, with opportunities for professional development and career progression within a forward-thinking and innovative Trust.
The Deputy Head of Nursing will deputise for the Head of Nursing on an as required basis The Deputy Head of Nursing will support the delivery of safe, clinically and cost effective and compassionate nursing care within the Division and provides assurance evidence to the Head of Nursing regarding compliance against all appropriate professional, organisational and national compliance standards.
The Deputy Head of Nursing will support decision making where practice or service delivery issues cross Matron specialty or when cross specialty leadership is required.
The Deputy Head of Nursing will establish and foster an effective working relationship with the Division Triumvirate to lead improvements in nursing care, service delivery and the achievement of organisational priorities within the Division.
The Deputy Head of Nursing role will support the Head of nursing to lead the development of nursing policy and processes to maximise opportunities through co-design, introduction of new care models and the empowerment of service users and carers.
Act as Trust-wide representative for nursing and as an ambassador of UHN as appropriate.
Utilise all forms of communication including verbal, written, electronic, e-mail, formal and informal meetings and ensure effective communication of local Trust and National information or guidance to all nurses interpreting new information in ways that can be implemented into clinical practice.
Communicate highly complex information to Executives and the Board.
Present all types of information, including highly complex service information, to large groups which will involve high degrees of tact and diplomacy and where barriers to understanding occur.
Maintain and handle highly confidential patient and staff information, record keeping, creating and maintaining effective storage system of staff records
For further information on the role it can be found on the attached JD/PS and candidate pack for the role.
Person specification
Educations, Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse – with current NMC Registration and no restrictions on practise
- Master’s degree in Nursing, leadership or management or relevant subject or evidence of practical application of expertise at this leve
- Post-graduate qualification within a leadership programme/study or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
- Evidence of continuing personal and professional development relevant to post
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of senior nursing management or professional leadership in a large and/or complex healthcare setting
- Experience of senior professional leadership and operational management across a range of clinical specialities and care settings
- Demonstrable experience managing clinical services and of leading improvements in clinical settings, patient care, and experience across multiple specialities
- Knowledge and experience of human resources management, communicating highly complex and contentious information to individuals and large groups
- Experience of managing budgets and financial resources, including the associated processes such as budget setting and financial planning
- Experience of actively leading service improvements across multiple areas
- Experience of workforce planning and recruitment and retention strategies – budget and resources
- Demonstrable evidence of highly specialist knowledge of the professional leadership and management of nurses
- In depth knowledge of the clinical governance agenda including clinical risk and safety
- Up to date with current clinical nursing practice including own area of expertise, to enable deliver of direct patient care if/when required, with excellent clinical skills. Maintain clinical competence as a Registered Nurse
- Up to date with current NHS policy and strategy
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
- Ability to establish credibility and develop and maintain effective working relationships at Executive and senior management levels
- Has strong influencing and negotiating skills
- Shares leadership with and is respected by clinical and non-clinical staff · Influencing a wide range of stakeholders
- Can engage with and lead a team, and work as part of a team
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in clear concise manner
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent seeking advice as necessary
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- High level professional, people management skills and leadership qualities
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Tritania Chasiya
- Job title
- Head of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07743194782
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Northampton General Hospital
Northampton
NN1 5BD
- Telephone
- 01604 544 745 | Opt: 1
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