Chief Nurse

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is inviting applications for the role of Chief Nurse, offering an exceptional opportunity for a compassionate and inclusive leader to help shape care across Buckinghamshire.

The Trust provides acute and community services to a population of over half a million, with a strong focus on quality, safety and staff wellbeing. You will drive improvements, develop high-performing teams and ensure patients’ voices are at the heart of every decision.

Job description

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [e-mail] or phone [phone].

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is inviting applications for the role of Chief Nurse, offering an outstanding opportunity for a compassionate and inclusive leader to join a high-performing NHS organisation at a pivotal moment in its development.

As an integrated provider of acute and community services, the Trust serves a population of over half a million people and employs more than 7,000 colleagues, delivering care across hospital sites, community settings and patients' homes.

This is an organisation with a strong sense of purpose and momentum. Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has achieved significant improvements in performance in recent years, including reducing long waiting times and being recognised nationally for emergency care and frailty services. At the same time, it has maintained a deep commitment to staff wellbeing, ranking highly in national staff survey results and demonstrating a culture where people are supported to thrive.

The Trust leads the Buckinghamshire Neighbourhood Programme, as well a forward-thinking approach to embedding digital and AI in its services, whilst construction has begun on the new Wycombe Hospital building.

The Trust is looking for a Chief Nurse who shares their ambitions and who is passionate aboutimproving quality, reducing inequalities, championing professional excellence and ensuring patients’ voices are at the heart of everything we do.

You will bring a strong track record of delivering improvements in quality and safety, leading large-scale cultural change, developing high-performing teams and working effectively across organisational boundaries. Just as importantly, you will be values-driven, politically astute and resilient, with the confidence to provide constructive challenge and make difficult decisions in the best interests of patients, colleagues, and communities.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future of care across Buckinghamshire and make a lasting impact on the health and wellbeing of local communities.

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.

Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.

We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.

Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.

We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.

We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.

We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact [e-mail] (Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.

We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.

Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.