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Job overview

The Deputy Nurse Director will support the Nurse Director within the Care group in delivering professional and operational leadership of Nursing and AHP services within the Care Group, including devising, implementing and reviewing strategies for the development of clinical practice, education, and management and quality issues.

The post holder will act as the deputy delegated lead for safety, quality and patient experience, responsible for development and application of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements that ensure full compliance with internal and external governance procedures and to benchmark against best practice requirements.

To provide the Nurse Director with the expertise and advice on the care provision for the speciality and care group services.

Responsible primarily for the operational management, leadership and professional delivery of nursing and midwifery services within the Care Group

You will be the guardian of patient care safety and standards, be accessible to patients and service users, and be responsible for leading on infection prevention and control and care environment matters.

The Deputy Nurse Director will be managerially and professionally accountable for a number of wards/departments, through the leadership and management of the Matrons, Sister/Charge Nurses and the specialist nurses and midwives.

Main duties of the job

To lead on the implementation of transformational change and quality assurance within an area of responsibility.

To lead on the development and improvement of patient pathways as well as assume responsibility for leading on corporate nursing and professional specific topics. 

To lead on patient flow matters, both within their spheres of responsibility and collectively as a professional group and in support of the Site Management Team.

They will lead and manage their operational day to day services via their support structures, resulting in greater containment of operational issues at ‘care group’ equivalent.

The Deputy Nurse Director will establish and foster an effective working relationship with the Care Groups senior leadership team. They will lead on improvements and developments in service delivery and the achievement of organisational priorities. The Deputy Nurse Director, will specifically lead and advise on safe, high quality nursing care and will deputise for the Nurse Director as required.

The Deputy Nurse Director has the overall responsibility for the delivery of safe, high quality, cost effective and compassionate nursing care within their areas and will provide assurance to the Nurse Director regarding compliance against all appropriate professional, organisational and national compliance standards relating to the Group nursing and midwifery agenda.

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.