Children's Care Group Director of Nursing

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an inspiring Director of Nursing for the Children’s Care Group. You will lead a large nursing workforce, champion quality, safety and transformation, and foster inclusive cultures that empower staff and improve outcomes for children and young people.

Working with families, communities and partner agencies, you will shape services, govern clinical practice, drive improvement initiatives, and ensure learning from incidents

Qualifications

• Current NMC registered nurse with eligible status.
• Experience leading at senior level in children’s services.
• Evidence of governance, risk management and patient safety.
• Experience of influencing across partners and communities.

Responsibilities

• Provide collaborative, inclusive and compassionate leadership for the Children’s Care Group.
• Lead nursing workforce, ensure safe, high-quality care and professional standards.
• Oversee quality governance, risk management, training and audits.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical governance

Quality improvement

Partnership working

Education & workforce

Staff engagement

Strategic change

Education

Nursing degree (RGN RMN RNLD)

Masters level qualification

Tools

Quality Improvement Tools

Job description

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT

Children's Care Group Director of Nursing

The closing date is 25 November 2026

We are looking for an inspiring nursing leader to help shape the future of our Children's Care Group, with a strong commitment to quality, safety, improvement and transformation.

Through visible, compassionate leadership, you will create an inclusive culture where colleagues can flourish and provide brilliant care. You will champion listening and learning, ensuring the experiences of children, young people, families, carers and colleagues shape our services.

You will help develop services with our communities, ensuring they respond to what matters most to local families.

If you are a credible, compassionate and ambitious nursing leader passionate about partnership and improving outcomes for children and young people, we would love to hear from you.

Come and help us shape the future of care, nurturing the power in our communities.

Main duties of the job

What you will bring

As our Care Group Director of Nursing, you will:

• 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.

About us

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are dedicated to the development of our our people and hold a learning half day every month for our colleagues.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/about-us/getting-involved/work-with-us/

We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:

https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q

The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:

https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook

Job responsibilities

The postholder will provide collaborative, inclusive and compassionate leadership, promoting a positive safety culture based on continuous learning, psychological safety and empowering staff to speak up.

Working closely with the leadership team, the postholder will lead and manage the nursing workforce, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality care.

They will be responsible for the Care Groups quality governance framework, including quality improvement, risk management, policies, training and audit activity. They will contribute to the strategic direction of services and delivery of the Trust Strategy, while maintaining high professional standards across nursing and wider clinical practice.

Through visible leadership, the postholder will support senior nursing leaders, escalating concerns and identifying solutions. They will also work collaboratively with corporate teams, including safeguarding, infection prevention and control, patient safety and clinical effectiveness, to uphold professional standards and continually improve patient care.

Main responsibilities (please see job description):

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current RGN RMN or RNLD Nursing
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate specialist training and experience.
• Masters level qualification or equivalent

Experience

• Substantial senior clinical nursing experience
• Specialist nursing practice and/or senior clinical experience within the specialty.
• Experience of leading on research projects and audit.
• Experience of developing and delivering presentations and/or training to large groups.
• Experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders
• Experience of implementing service change/ reconfiguration and modernisation services
• Broad and positive clinical experience
• Practice experience in an alternative healthcare setting.
• Experience in a governance role, CQC and/or commissioning

Knowledge

• Working knowledge of Patient Safety, Patient Experience and Quality Improvement policy drivers at national and local level
• Understanding of clinical risk management and the ability to put this into practice as expert advisor within risk management.
• Ability to translate policy into practice.
• Working knowledge of Infection prevention and control policy and practice
• Knowledge and ability to advice on specialist care group healthcare assessment and treatment
• Working knowledge and ability to advise on range of medical devices and assessment tools for the Care Group
• Working knowledge and experienced in the use of Quality Improvement Tool in practice.
• Leading innovation through people - ability to inspire and communicate the vision and rationale for change, engaging and facilitating others to work collaboratively.
• Demonstrates a proven track record in practice development and/or service improvement

Skills

• Demonstrates an ability to manage complex situations
• Detailed knowledge of the professional agenda as it relates to nursing.
• Ability to work within and meet clear performance targets and indicators.
• Up to date knowledge and understanding of current public policy and government legislation as it applies to Nursing and Health and social care.
• Significant knowledge of the performance management agenda and modernisation tools and techniques
• Knowledge and working experience of service redesign.
• Ability to negotiate, shape and influence local service development involving partner agencies and key stakeholders.
• Financial and budgetary management experience
• Expertise in undertaking investigations with the ability to determine outcomes and produce recommendations.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to work in a complex environment.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and empower others to achieve objectives and aspirations.
• Ability to assimilate information, analyse data triangulate themes and present to others
• Experience of large-scale improvement programmes in any healthcare setting.

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.

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT