Chief Nursing Leader, Children’s Care Group

Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust seeks an inspiring nursing leader to guide the Children’s Care Group, championing compassionate leadership, safety, quality and transformation to improve outcomes for children and families.

The post holder will lead the nursing workforce, strengthen professional standards, and drive governance, learning and service improvement in collaboration with communities and partner organisations.

Qualifications

• Provide visible, compassionate and inclusive professional leadership across the Children’s Care Group.
• Lead and support the nursing workforce, strengthening professional standards and enabling staff to deliver safe, high-quality care.
• Provide senior leadership for quality, clinical governance and patient safety, ensuring learning from incidents, feedback and practice drives improvement.
• Champion quality improvement, research, innovation and evidence-based practice.
• Work in partnership with children, young people, families and communities to co-produce services that build on local strengths and expertise.
• Bring the Trust's ambition of nurturing the power in our communities to life, ensuring communities are genuine partners in improving health and wellbeing.
• Build strong partnerships across health, education, local authorities and the voluntary and community sector to improve pathways and reduce inequalities.
• Lead transformation across organisational boundaries, creating more joined-up and accessible services.
• Use quality intelligence, outcomes, feedback and lived experience to identify and target improvement.
• Promote an open, inclusive and psychologically safe culture where colleagues feel empowered to speak up, learn, innovate and improve.

Responsibilities

• Clinical effectiveness
• Patient experience, involvement, and engagement
• Education and workforce
• Delivering Safe and Therapeutic Care Service improvement

Skills

Visible leadership

Nursing leadership

Quality improvement

Clinical governance

Partnership with families

Collaboration across sectors

Safety culture

Strategic transformation

Job description

Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust seeks an inspiring nursing leader to guide the Children’s Care Group, championing compassionate leadership, safety, quality and transformation to improve outcomes for children and families.

The post holder will lead the nursing workforce, strengthen professional standards, and drive governance, learning and service improvement in collaboration with communities and partner organisations.