Associate Chief Nurse/AHP Unplanned Care

Integrated Care System; Warrington; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Warrington is seeking an Associate Chief Nurse/Associate AHP to provide professional leadership in Unplanned Care. The ideal candidate will have extensive senior management experience, strong leadership skills, and a master's degree or equivalent. Responsibilities include ensuring clinical governance and quality management, supporting the Deputy Chief Nurse, and managing multi-professional teams. This role is critical for delivering safe and effective patient care within a quality framework.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership skills in a multi-professional team.
• Experience working across organizational boundaries.
• Strong knowledge of NHS issues and policies.

Responsibilities

• Lead nursing leadership in Unplanned Care Group.
• Ensure compliance with Care Quality Commission standards.
• Manage clinical governance, including infection control.

Skills

Senior NHS management experience

Quality and risk management

Patient Safety and Quality knowledge

Ability to produce high quality reports

Budget management experience

Education

Master's degree or equivalent experience

NMC AHP Registration

Job description

Go back Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT

Associate Chief Nurse/AHP Unplanned Care

The closing date is 19 August 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and influential professional leader to join our organisation as Associate Chief Nurse/Associate AHP - Unplanned Care. Applications are welcome from appropriately experienced registered nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals.

As a core member of the Unplanned Care Group management team, you will be responsible for providing excellent professional nursing leadership across the Unplanned Care Group, assuring the provision of safe, effective and also evidence-based care with an agreed quality and financial framework.

As Associate Chief Nurse/of Nursing you will support the Deputy Chief Nurse by providing strategic and operational leadership and direction and will deputise across the full range of their portfolio. The post holder will need proven leadership skills, experience at a strategic level, and the ability to motivate and engage others as part of a multi-professional team using sound management and leadership skills.

Main duties of the job

The Associate Chief Nurse/Associate AHP works in partnership with the Associate Medical Director and Associate Director of Unplanned Care Group. The three roles have operational accountability for the workforce, service delivery, clinical quality and safety and financial control, and the implementation of the corporate objectives and Trust's strategy within the division.

Together as a team the post holders will be responsible for defining care group objectives to meet corporate goals and ensuring that quality standards are met, and performance addressed where this is not the case.

The Associate Chief Nurse/Associate AHP is specifically accountable for the delivery and performance of the nursing / therapy staff within the care group. Ensuring compliance with standards of care and treatment meet the requirements of Care Quality Commission standards.

The Associate Chief Nurse/ Associate AHP also has lead responsibility for clinical governance in the care group. This includes infection control, risk management and the management of serious incidents and complaints, ensuring that action plans are completed and that the care groups learn from such events.

The Associate Chief Nurse/Associate AHP has a clinical leadership role in relation to nursing / AHP staff within the care groups, creating an environment which promotes and supports high standards of clinical and professional practice, resulting in high quality patient care.

About us

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.

Job responsibilities

The Associate Chief Nurse/Associate AHP works in partnership with the Associate Medical Director and Associate Director of Unplanned & Planned Care Group. The three roles have operational accountability for the workforce, service delivery, clinical quality and safety and financial control, and the implementation of the corporate objectives and Trusts strategy within the division. Together as a team the post holders will be responsible for defining care group objectives to meet corporate goals and ensuring that quality standards are met, and performance addressed where this is not the case. The Associate Chief Nurse/Associate AHP is specifically accountable for the delivery and performance of the nursing / therapy staff within the care group. Ensuring compliance with standards of care and treatment meet the requirements of Care Quality Commission standards. The Associate Chief Nurse/ Associate AHP also has lead responsibility for clinical governance in the care group. This includes infection control, risk management and the management of serious incidents and complaints, ensuring that action plans are completed and that the care groups learnfrom such events. The Associate Chief Nurse/Associate AHP has a clinical leadership role in relation to nursing / AHP staff within the care groups, creating an environment which promotes and supports highstandards of clinical and professional practice, resulting in high quality patient care.

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Person Specification

NMC/AHP Registration

• NMC AHP Registration

oExtensive experience of senior NHS management experience in nursing or AHP

• oExtensive experience of senior NHS management experience in nursing or AHP

Master's degree or equivalent experience

• Master's degree or equivalent experience

Experience of quality and risk management

• Experience of quality and risk management

Experience of managing multi-professional groups

• Experience of managing multi-professional groups

Experience of working across organisational boundaries and developing effective partnerships.

• Experience of working across organisational boundaries and developing effective partnerships.

Extensive knowledge of Patient Safety and Quality

• Extensive knowledge of Patient Safety and Quality

Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policy.

• Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policy.

Ability to produce high quality written reports / papers to aid decision making / assurance process.

• Ability to produce high quality written reports / papers to aid decision making / assurance process.

Experience in managing budgets and delivering cost improvements within a quality framework.

• Experience in managing budgets and delivering cost improvements within a quality framework.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT