Job summary
Internal Applicants Only
Are you a compassionate and forward-thinking nurse leader with a passion for delivering excellence in care? We are seeking a dedicated individual to join our senior nursing leadership team as Deputy Head of Nursing for Cardiology. This is a pivotal role at the forefront of service transformation and patient-centred innovation.
We are ambitious for our Cardiology services, our patients, and our people. To help realise this ambition, we are looking for someone with a proven track record in leading service improvement, redesigning care pathways, and enhancing quality outcomes. You will be someone who thrives on collaboration, values team development, and brings energy and focus to turning strategy into action.
Please discuss this with your Line Manager(s) and have permission and ability to commence the role in August which is essential.
Main duties of the job
You will play a key role in:
Leading and implementing service change initiatives, especially across high-impact clinical areas. To support operating with maximum efficiency, quality, and safety.
Reviewing and strengthening nursing establishment/job plans, ensuring that workforce deployment supports safe, effective care.
Providing robust oversight of safety, incidents, and complaints, ensuring we not only meet standards but learn and improve through a culture of openness.
Ensuring the timely production of high-quality reports and assurance documentation via the Band 8a team, supporting divisional and trust-level priorities.
Most importantly, we are looking for someone who leads with integrity, builds trust, and inspires high performance through compassion, respect, and inclusion. You will value people, recognise strengths, and create an environment where nurses can thrive and deliver their best for patients.
If you are motivated by the opportunity to make a lasting impact on patient care and professional practice, and to be part of a collaborative, values-driven leadership team, we warmly encourage you to apply.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Registered Nurse (NMC)
- Post-registration Masters degree in nursing or related field or working towards
- Substantial leadership experience across clinical areas
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development, including in the area of EDI
Desirable
- Desirable post-graduate qualification in teaching within health care
- Emergency planning / critical incident management course (this could be HMIMMs / ALS)
Experience
Essential
- Can you show us through experience/examples from your personal and/or professional life how you:
- Have a proven track record (through feedback from peers, other colleagues and patients) that you can lead staff in a way that is compassionate and collective in situations that can be as different as a cardiac emergency to simply giving comfort and holding a patient's hand
- Give honest and professional feedback to colleagues.
- Collaborate effectively with operational and other clinical professionals to lead teams.
- Have a good working knowledge of clinical and quality governance with particular knowledge of assurance and risk management.
- Can diversify the nursing leadership within an organisation to improve the employment journey for staff with protected characteristics
- Adapt your leadership style as required to encourage innovation among staff and allow them to make the most of the opportunities offered at Royal Papworth.
- Able to balance the administrative requirements of a role with being visible and accessible to the team
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Registered Nurse (NMC)
- Post-registration Masters degree in nursing or related field or working towards
- Substantial leadership experience across clinical areas
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development, including in the area of EDI
Desirable
- Desirable post-graduate qualification in teaching within health care
- Emergency planning / critical incident management course (this could be HMIMMs / ALS)
Experience
Essential
- Can you show us through experience/examples from your personal and/or professional life how you:
- Have a proven track record (through feedback from peers, other colleagues and patients) that you can lead staff in a way that is compassionate and collective in situations that can be as different as a cardiac emergency to simply giving comfort and holding a patient's hand
- Give honest and professional feedback to colleagues.
- Collaborate effectively with operational and other clinical professionals to lead teams.
- Have a good working knowledge of clinical and quality governance with particular knowledge of assurance and risk management.
- Can diversify the nursing leadership within an organisation to improve the employment journey for staff with protected characteristics
- Adapt your leadership style as required to encourage innovation among staff and allow them to make the most of the opportunities offered at Royal Papworth.
- Able to balance the administrative requirements of a role with being visible and accessible to the team
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
