Divisional Director of Nursing/Midwifery

Forest Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an inspirational Divisional Director of Nursing and Midwifery to provide professional leadership across the Division and allied areas. You will shape clinical strategy, drive delivery of priorities and sustain service improvements with a clear focus on patient care and staff development.

You will lead transformation across complex services, champion innovative models of care, and ensure workforce capacity, safety and experience remain central to

Job description

We are looking for an inspirational Divisional Director of Nursing/Midwiferyto provide professional leadership across the Division and other allocated areas of responsibility. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious senior leader to make a significant impact and influence the future direction of services.

As a key member of the Divisional Leadership, working in close partnership with the Divisional Clinical Director and Divisional General Manager, you will help shape and deliver the strategic vision for the Division. You will play a central role in translating that vision into action, providing strong leadership and ensuring the successful delivery of operational priorities and sustainable service improvements.

With a strong track record of transformation and managing complex change, you will champion the development, implementation and evaluation of innovative models of care that are responsive to the evolving needs of patients, service users and the wider healthcare system.

Working collaboratively with divisional and corporate colleagues, you will drive the delivery of strategic and operational objectives, ensuring that improvements in patient outcomes, safety and experience remain at the heart of everything we do. You will also lead the development of robust nursing and midwifery workforce and professional development plans, ensuring we have the skills, leadership capability and workforce capacity needed to meet both current and future service demands.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

We know happy colleagues deliver better care. All our teams work in a supportive environment, which nurtures your wellbeing and provides opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We have an open, inclusive and diverse culture and we would like you to be part of the team.