Key Responsibilities

• Provide visible, compassionate and professional leadership across medical wards and outpatient departments.
• Promote and maintain the highest standards of patient-centred care, ensuring patients are treated with dignity, respect and compassion.
• Drive improvements in patient experience, quality, safety and clinical outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with CQC Fundamental Standards, infection prevention and control requirements, and Trust policies.
• Lead initiatives to improve patient flow, reduce delays in care and support effective capacity management.
• Maintain clean, safe and welcoming care environments.
• Influence practice through clinical leadership, governance, education, research, audit and quality improvement activities.
• Support, develop and empower nursing teams to deliver excellence in care.
• Provide line management and professional leadership to designated Ward Sisters and Clinic Nurse Leads, where required.
• Participate in the Trust's Late Matron and On-Call Management rotas.

About You

You will be an experienced senior nurse leader with a strong clinical background, a passion for delivering outstanding patient care, and the ability to inspire and motivate teams. You will demonstrate excellent leadership, communication and operational management skills, with a proven track record of driving quality improvement and delivering positive outcomes for patients and staff.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and compassionate nursing leader to make a significant impact on patient care and the future development of services across the Trust.