Band 8b Professional Lead for Nursing

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Birmingham is seeking a Professional Lead for Nursing to join their Senior Leadership Team. The role entails providing professional leadership for nursing, driving quality improvement, and ensuring high standards in healthcare services. The successful candidate will have substantial leadership experience and will collaborate with various teams to address the local nursing workforce needs. The organization is committed to delivering integrated, personalized care and values diversity in its workforce.

Qualifications

• Must have substantial leadership experience, especially in healthcare.
• Proven ability to motivate teams and inspire continuous improvement.
• Must possess a deep understanding of the healthcare workforce.

Responsibilities

• Deputise for the Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies.
• Provide strong visionary leadership for nursing services.
• Ensure operational management and compliance with CQC standards.
• Collaborate within the Integrated Care System to address workforce needs.
• Support the development of professional standards for nursing.

Skills

Leadership experience

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Understanding of inpatient and outpatient services

Experience in quality improvement

Education

Nursing degree or equivalent

Job description

An opportunity has arisen to join the Senior Leadership Team within our Adult and Specialist Rehabilitation Division as the Professional Lead for Nursing. This is your chance to make an impact by driving excellence and innovation across our services.

As a key member of the leadership team, you will champion a culture of high-quality professional nursing leadership, ensuring that our care reflects the very best of our Trust values. Your vision and expertise will help define the role of nursing in achieving our ambitious goals, delivering outstanding care for patients and their families.

The purpose of the role is to provide professional leadership for nursing across the clinical division, developing a clear vision for the contribution of nurses to the overarching ambitions of the service.

To rise to this exciting challenge, you will have substantial leadership experience including quality improvement initiatives. You will be a driven individual with highly developed communication and negotiation skills; you will motivate teams and inspire a culture of continuous improvement. You must have an understanding of inpatient and outpatient services as well as knowledge of education and the workforce in a healthcare setting.

Applications from colleagues from BME backgrounds are particularly welcomed as they are currently underrepresented in our senior team and we are striving to redress this balance and achieve our WRES objective by supporting career progression into these roles.

Key responsibilities

• To deputise for the Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies as required
• As a member of the wider clinical divisional management structure provide strong, clear visionary leadership through team working to ensure effective operational management and delivery of nursing services.
• Support the Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies to have clear oversight of compliance with all domains of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulatory framework.
• To work collaboratively within the Integrated Care System to ensure that we collectively address the local recruitment, retention, leadership and engagement of our nursing workforce.
• To work collaboratively with Divisional and Trust colleagues, to develop and implement professional standards for nursing across the division which supports professional development, leadership, competence, capacity, and standards of conduct.
• To support the Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies, ensuring that sound clinical governance and supervision arrangements are in place at all levels for nursing.

The successful candidate will be leading on workstreams which align with their skills and experience in addition to:

• Quality improvement in the division
• Attendance at key divisional and Trust meetings
• Safeguarding
• IPC and Vaccination

About Our Team

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (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, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation 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 that is rooted in our 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.

For further details on the main job and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description.

This advert closes on Thursday 29 Jan 2026.