Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Patient Experience
- Grade
- AFC Band 8D
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-AGB-EMF21250-B8D
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £96,626 - £111,084 per annum including High Cost Area Supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Director of Nursing & Multidisciplinary Education
AFC Band 8D
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic and compassionate leader to join our senior team. This high-impact role provides strategic and clinical leadership across nursing, midwifery, and AHPs with a focus on the delivery of Education (both under graduate and post-graduate) and workforce development. As the Trust lead for Advanced Practice and Non-Medical Prescribing, this individual will need to maintain up to date clinical knowledge and a wider understanding of the national agenda.
This is a unique opportunity to lead with purpose, shape compassionate care, and influence system-wide improvement. If you’re ready to make a lasting impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Reporting directly to the Professional Director of Nursing and Patient Experience, the Deputy Director of Nursing and Multidisciplinary Education will be integral to the delivery of the Education plan, and to the leadership of nursing across the whole Trust including workforce aspects, as the lead for Safe Staffing in Nursing.
The post holder will support the delivery of the Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Health Professionals (AHP) strategy for the Trust. This will include the development and delivery of professional standards and the development of leadership within nursing and AHPs.
The post holder will directly manage the Head of Nursing and Practice Development, supporting the Trust Practice Development team, the Resuscitation Service Manager and the PA to the Deputy Directors of Nursing along with professionally supporting the Matron for Research.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5,000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing programme alongside a strong commitment to developing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family ensures you feel valued from your initial interview and throughout your time with us.
We are clinically led and provide joined-up care by bridging hospital and community services, alongside delivering regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford, with community sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh, and services delivered in patients’ homes across Guildford and Waverley.
We work in partnership with Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust through a collaborative Group Model, supporting joined-up services, workforce flexibility and development opportunities.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated us as Outstanding. We are proud of our achievements and continue to invest in our people and infrastructure.
To learn more about life at Royal Surrey, please watch our short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a senior member of the corporate nursing team, the postholder will be accountable for the prescribed quality standards relevant to the appointed area of responsibility as delegated:
Multidisciplinary Education (focusing on non-medical education provision)
Resuscitation services in the Trust
Trust Lead for Advanced Practice and non-medical prescribing.
Trust lead for Safe Staffing in Nursing
This role supports both the Chief Nurse and the Medical Director in the management of the Quality Directorate helping to ensure high quality day to day professional leadership and management.
This role is accountable for exemplary nursing leadership and governance of the Trust, building relationships both within and outside the NHS, and dedicated to the delivery of nursing services that meet quality standards, are value for money and are provided with professionalism, compassion and care and will deputise for the Professional Director of Nursing when required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current NMC registration: First level Registered Nurse
- Educated to MSc or equivalent experience at a senior nursing managerial level
- Post qualification or equivalent experience in nurse education / practice development such as ENB 998 or equivalent mentorship qualification
- Demonstrates recent professional updating
- Quality Improvement qualification
Desirable criteria
- Professional Nurse Advocate
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of key issues and complexity and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally, with the ability to assess and describe impact on services.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of complex governance arrangements and standards in the NHS and the wider health and social care economy
- Experience of managing services, including finance Business and human resources
- Fully conversant with the national nursing agenda and the impact of national initiatives on the profession
- Evidence of having developed new initiatives, including multi- professional working
- Experience of implementing service change/reconfiguration and modernising services
- Substantial nurse management experience, including an acute setting
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience of effective partnership working with a range of agencies and stakeholders
- Experience of implementing service change and modernising services with a proven track record in improving patient experience and gaining public /patient views.
- Ability to write and present Board level papers including experience of developing business cases
- Good understanding of current and developing NHS policy
- Comprehensive understanding of the professional nursing agenda
- Knowledge of the governance agenda and role of the CQC, NHSE/I,NMC
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tamsin Enticknap-Green
- Job title
- Professional Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01483 571122
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