Job summary
As Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of nursing and clinical governance across NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT). Reporting to the Chief Nursing Officer, you will lead the development and delivery of professional nursing standards, drive strategic workforce planning, and champion a culture of learning, safety and compassionate care. Youll influence national policy, strengthen our governance frameworks, and ensure our nursing workforce is equipped to deliver high quality, safe and consistent care. Working with senior leaders across the UK, youll bring clarity, expertise and ambition to an organisation where your contribution directly supports our purpose: saving and improving lives every day.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the development and delivery of NHSBTs clinical governance and nursing strategy.
- Ensure consistent clinical and professional standards across the Nursing workforce, including leadership, capability, and workforce planning.
- Provide expert professional advice to the Board, Executive Team and senior leaders on nursing, quality and patient safety.
- Lead risk management, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, and quality improvement portfolios for the organisation.
- Drive the development and implementation of the NHSBT Nursing Strategy, including performance monitoring and evaluation.
- Build strong national partnerships, aligning NHSBT with nursing strategies across all four UK nations.
- Oversee directorate planning, budgets, business cases, and resource allocation to ensure value for money and strong delivery.
- Promote a compassionate, open, learning culture, ensuring lessons learned translate into improved patient and donor outcomes.
- Deputise for the Chief Nursing Officer with full autonomy, representing NHSBT at national meetings and strategic forums.
- Lead the development of clinical governance systems, ensuring effective reporting, assurance and regulatory compliance.
About us
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.
Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do.
By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too.
Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.
You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What we offer:
- NHSBT promotes flexible working opportunities where the role will allow.
- 27 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time) plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years’ service and to 33 days after 10 years.
- NHS pension scheme. The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns) Further details and outline of benefits can be found at: www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pensions
- We’ve fostered a culture of continuous learning where colleagues are well-led, engaged, and encouraged to grow. We support you in reaching your full potential, both in your current role and future career. Our Thrive program embodies our commitment to learning and development, offering a wide range of activities to support your personal and professional growth. It’s open to everyone at NHSBT, ensuring you have the resources to succeed and shine in your role.
To learn more, please see our Job Description and Person Specification for the role which outlines the essential criteria you will be required to demonstrate throughout your application.
The assessment process for this role will be multi stage. If you are selected to enter the assessment process, the initial stage will be to complete a video presentation by the 10th March. Should you be successful at this stage you will then be invited to attend a Stakeholder Engagement session around the 12/13 March, with final panel interviews taking place on 18th March.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What we offer:
- NHSBT promotes flexible working opportunities where the role will allow.
- 27 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time) plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years’ service and to 33 days after 10 years.
- NHS pension scheme. The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns) Further details and outline of benefits can be found at: www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pensions
- We’ve fostered a culture of continuous learning where colleagues are well-led, engaged, and encouraged to grow. We support you in reaching your full potential, both in your current role and future career. Our Thrive program embodies our commitment to learning and development, offering a wide range of activities to support your personal and professional growth. It’s open to everyone at NHSBT, ensuring you have the resources to succeed and shine in your role.
To learn more, please see our Job Description and Person Specification for the role which outlines the essential criteria you will be required to demonstrate throughout your application.
The assessment process for this role will be multi stage. If you are selected to enter the assessment process, the initial stage will be to complete a video presentation by the 10th March. Should you be successful at this stage you will then be invited to attend a Stakeholder Engagement session around the 12/13 March, with final panel interviews taking place on 18th March.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in relevant subject.
- Professional and Leadership experience across a wide range of analytical, strategy, procedure and practices along with relevant clinical experience.
- Highly developed knowledge, clinical experience, and training in strategy development and programme and portfolio management.
- Registered Nurse (NMC) with requirement to maintain registration.
- Demonstrate commitment to own Continued Professional Development (CPD).
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience as a registered nurse.
- Substantial experience leading clinical governance, safeguarding, infection control and professional nursing at system or national or international level.
- Substantial experience of leading risk management.
- Direct experience in leading complex projects and change processes.
- In depth knowledge of all relevant legislation and the regulatory environment governing NHSBT
- Direct experience in professional case management at organisational level and NMC case management.
- Experience in people management, leadership and delivering through people as well as knowledge of HR processes, and relevant legislation.
- Experience in strategic management and planning.
- Experience in finance and management accounting.
- Experience in performance management
- Experience in clinical risk management
- Experience in delivery of clinical and quality governance, aligning to sub board committees.
- Understand and have good knowledge of principles and application of IT software and hardware applications especially those relevant to Tissues management.
- Experience in media awareness.
- Experience in education, commissioning and strategy development.
- Experience in regulatory compliance including leading CQC inspections and leading /delivering improvement plans.
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of principles of good Corporate, Clinical and Scientific Governance
- Experience of professionally leading and implementing strategy and delivering major projects
- Experience of management of significant resources and delivering against stretching organisational targets
- Advanced level critical thinking and problem solving.
- Experience of acting as part of a highly diverse and successful senior team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in relevant subject.
- Professional and Leadership experience across a wide range of analytical, strategy, procedure and practices along with relevant clinical experience.
- Highly developed knowledge, clinical experience, and training in strategy development and programme and portfolio management.
- Registered Nurse (NMC) with requirement to maintain registration.
- Demonstrate commitment to own Continued Professional Development (CPD).
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience as a registered nurse.
- Substantial experience leading clinical governance, safeguarding, infection control and professional nursing at system or national or international level.
- Substantial experience of leading risk management.
- Direct experience in leading complex projects and change processes.
- In depth knowledge of all relevant legislation and the regulatory environment governing NHSBT
- Direct experience in professional case management at organisational level and NMC case management.
- Experience in people management, leadership and delivering through people as well as knowledge of HR processes, and relevant legislation.
- Experience in strategic management and planning.
- Experience in finance and management accounting.
- Experience in performance management
- Experience in clinical risk management
- Experience in delivery of clinical and quality governance, aligning to sub board committees.
- Understand and have good knowledge of principles and application of IT software and hardware applications especially those relevant to Tissues management.
- Experience in media awareness.
- Experience in education, commissioning and strategy development.
- Experience in regulatory compliance including leading CQC inspections and leading /delivering improvement plans.
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of principles of good Corporate, Clinical and Scientific Governance
- Experience of professionally leading and implementing strategy and delivering major projects
- Experience of management of significant resources and delivering against stretching organisational targets
- Advanced level critical thinking and problem solving.
- Experience of acting as part of a highly diverse and successful senior team.
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).
