Children's Care Group Director of Nursing

Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust; Doncaster; Presencial; GBP 80.000 - 92.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

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.

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

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

Conocimientos

Visible leadership

Nursing leadership

Quality improvement

Clinical governance

Partnership with families

Collaboration across sectors

Safety culture

Strategic transformation

Descripción del empleo

Children's Care Group Director of Nursing

Company:

Company: Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust

A Vacancy at Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust.

The opportunity

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 serviceswith 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.

What you will bring

• 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 ofnurturing the power in our communitiesto 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.

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:

https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/documents/clinical-and-organisational-strategy-2023-to-2028/

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

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 ofsafe, effective and high-quality care.

They will be responsible for the Care Group’s 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):

• Clinical effectiveness


• Patient experience, involvement, and engagement


• Education and workforce


• Delivering Safe and Therapeutic Care Service improvement

This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Nov 2026

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Company: Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust Salary: £79,504 - £91,609 per annum Hours: Full-time Location: Doncaster, DN4 8QN Job type: Permanent Posting date: 11 Nov 2026 Closing date: 11 Dec 2026