Executive Director of Nursing

Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (857); York and North Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) invites a senior nurse leader to drive care quality, safety and equity at system level across 1.7 million people.

Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will lead nursing, midwifery and allied health professional matters, strengthen governance, infection control and safeguarding, and mentor senior clinical leaders while shaping workforce development and strategic partnership activity.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with board-level nursing leadership experience.
• Proven track record of improving care in a complex NHS organisation.

Responsibilities

• Lead nursing, midwifery and AHP priorities for the ICB.
• Embed clinical leadership, influence strategy and champion patient experience.
• Strengthen quality surveillance, infection control, safeguarding and governance.
• Mentor professional leaders and promote learning, safety and equality.
• Work with providers, communities and education to reduce inequalities.

Job description

Help shape safer, more equitable care for 1.7 million people across Humber and North Yorkshire. Accountable to the Chief Executive, you will lead nursing, midwifery and allied health professional matters, quality assurance and improvement, and safeguarding. Working with the Medical Director and Executive Team, you will embed clinical leadership, influence strategy and champion patient experience. You will strengthen quality surveillance, lead nurse staffing and infection control responsibilities and shape workforce education and talent development. We seek a registered nurse with Board-level nursing leadership experience and a proven record of improving care in a complex NHS organisation. Through partnerships with providers, communities, education and other system partners, you will support transformation, reduce health inequalities and promote compassionate, high-quality and inclusive care. This agile role offers system-wide influence, with a designated HNY ICB office or home base. Working with the Medical Director, Executive colleagues and leading a team of senior nurse directors and allied health professionals (AHPs), you will lead the delivery of nursing, midwifery and AHP priorities for the ICB, shaping clinical strategy and professional workforce development. Through the quality framework, you will identify and elevate risks, strengthen assurance and lead safeguarding and infection control, ensuring review findings inform action. Trusted partnerships with providers, patients and communities will support safer pathways, better patient experience, co-design and reduced inequalities. Your advice on provider improvement plans and regulatory compliance will promote learning and innovation. As a compassionate and inclusive leader, you will mentor professional leaders, bring clinical challenge to ICB decisions and strengthen governance and freedom to speak up. Accountable to the Chief Executive, you will be a full member of the unitary Board and will share Executive Team corporate responsibility, participating in the Executive/Senior Management on-call rota.

NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the strategic commissioner of NHS services for a population of 1.7 million people. We plan and arrange services to meet our populations diverse health needs, focusing on improving health outcomes, reducing inequalities and making the best use of available resources. Our area reaches over 1,500 square miles and includes the cities of Hull and York and large rural areas across East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire. Our role is to make sure health services work well and are of high quality. We also work to join up health and care services, improve the health and wellbeing of local people and reduce health inequalities across our area. The ICB adopts a Purposeful Presence model as the default way of working.

Subject to any reasonable adjustments that may be required, this means:

• Individual work is undertaken remotely and digitally in almost all Circumstances.
• Collaborative work is predominantly delivered through digital platforms.
• In-person working is reserved for situations where outcomes cannot be achieved effectively through digital means.

Contractual bases are determined by post category. This post is designated as: Agile Post. This means the appointed postholder may choose either Health House, Willerby or home as their contractual base (please note that the Purposeful Presence principles still apply if Health House is chosen).