Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing Management
- Grade
- AfC Band 8D
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (Or secondment opportunity)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-7866239-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mount Mckinley
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £91,342 - £105,337 per annum (New NHS Pay Award as of April 2026)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Interim Deputy Director of Nursing & Quality
AfC Band 8D
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700. For a limited number of clinical posts (listed here), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an authentic, confident and experienced Nurse to join our Senior Team as Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality for a period of six months. They will provide proficient leadership, guidance, and pace to drive the Trusts response to the Nursing and Quality strategy and provide professional guidance and support to our clinical teams.
The right candidate will be able to demonstrate insight and experience of multi-disciplinary working and decision making at senior leadership level, be people focused, collaborative in the delivery of change and have an in depth understanding and experience of Quality management.
We are looking for a senior leader who has the confidence and experience to work within an ever-changing operational landscape while maintaining direction and focus on the Clinical group strategic objectives.
Main duties of the job
- Delivering corporate responsibilities for their portfolio, working collaboratively, as part of the senior leadership team within the Trust supporting the delivery of key objectives and strategic goals.
- Delivery of agreed set objectives as set by the Director of Nursing and Quality.
- Working with the Director of Nursing and Quality, Chief AHP, Medical Director and Heads of Service, the post holder will take day to day responsibility for key work-streams that support the delivery of the Trust objectives, with particular focus on providing Nursing advice and support.
- To provide credible and visible professional clinical leadership and line management to defined teams within the Corporate Quality portfolio, supporting, co-ordinating and assuring CQC, ICS and whole system work on improving the patient outcomes, clinical assurance, patient safety and improvement
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the role, please see the attached document entitled 'Job Description and Person Specification'.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters in a Health-Related Subject or equivalent demonstrable experience supplemented by specialist training, experience or short courses to doctorate level or equivalent
- NMC Registered Nurse
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to post
- Post graduate Leadership training/ development course
- Project management / service improvement Qualification i.e. : Prince 2
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a variety of settings with extensive Senior Nursing operational & managerial experience within a large NHS provider Trust, managing Directorate or multidisciplinary site
- Experienced operational service manager, familiar with managing capacity and demand for patient services within an NHS patient services organisation / and the operational service impact on the professional Nursing agenda
- Evidence and experience in delivering Nursing performance ie: strategic safe staffing and skill mix reviews, infection control, risk management, complaints and adverse incidents
- Demonstrate experience in the redesign and development of services, together with practical experience in leading the necessary changes to implement
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate experience of the NHS strategic agenda together with an understanding of the current issues in nursing policy and practice
- Understanding of the regulatory and statutory frameworks associated with NHS operating environment
- Understanding of the local health economy
- Ability to use own judgement often in difficult circumstances or when under pressure due to conflicting opinion or where or complex information is provided
- Demonstrate an understanding on workforce capacity / capability issues and how these relate to patient care quality and safety
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sara Ellis-Anderson
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01743 277500
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