Deputy Professional Lead for Nursing

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking a Deputy Professional Lead Nurse to provide leadership within the Children and Families Division. The successful candidate will have substantial experience in children's services, focusing on quality improvement and team motivation. This role includes participation in career planning and professional development initiatives, ensuring the division meets high standards in patient care. Join us in delivering integrated and personalised healthcare in local communities.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in children's services and staff leadership.
• Experience supporting transformation programmes.
• Highly developed communication and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership across nursing disciplines.
• Participate in career and succession planning.
• Lead on quality improvement workstreams.

Skills

Leadership in Nursing disciplines

Communication and negotiation skills

Motivating teams

Understanding of paediatric community healthcare

Job description

Overview

We are delighted to offer a permanent Deputy Professional Lead Nurse within our Children and Families Division.

The Children and Families Services Division is committed to a continuous quality improvement agenda. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the division has robust structures, processes and systems in place to support a workforce that is fit for the future and that is competent and able to deliver safe, high quality services and excellent patient care.

Responsibilities

• You will provide professional leadership to the Nursing disciplines across the groups within the division supported by the Professional Lead for Nursing, including participating in career and succession planning and leading on future development initiatives.
• You will be part of a team of professional leads within the division.
• The Deputy Professional Lead Nurse provides advice and leadership on professional issues.
• Lead on workstreams aligned with skills and experience, in addition to quality improvement in the division.
• Attend key divisional meetings.
• Safeguarding.
• Infection prevention and control (IPC) and Vaccination.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience of working within children’s services, staff leadership and quality issues within Nursing.
• Experience of supporting transformation programmes.
• Highly developed communication and negotiation skills; ability to motivate teams and inspire a culture of continuous improvement.
• Understanding of paediatric community healthcare and knowledge of education and the workforce in a healthcare setting.

About BCHC

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care rooted in local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

Additional Information

Please refer to the attached Job Description/Person Specification for more details regarding the post.

This advert closes on Thursday 29 Jan 2026