Job overview

Join Us in Shaping Safer, High-Quality Care Across the NCA

Are you a senior nursing leader ready to make a Trust-wide impact? We’re offering an exciting 12-month secondment opportunity to join the Corporate Nursing team as Deputy Director of Nursing, working directly to the Deputy Chief Nurse.

This pivotal role spans the Northern Care Alliance, providing visible leadership and strategic oversight across key areas including:

Fundamental standards of care

Quality assurance and clinical governance

Safer staffing and workforce development

Patient safety and harm reduction

You’ll be instrumental in driving improvements in care delivery, embedding a culture of continuous learning, and ensuring that patient experience and safety are at the heart of everything we do. As part of the Chief Nursing Officer team, you’ll champion inclusive leadership, support service transformation, and help shape the future of nursing across our organisation.

If you’re passionate about compassionate care, professional excellence, and making a difference at scale this role is for you.

Main duties of the job

As a senior leader within the Chief Nursing Officer team, you will role model the principles of CLM, servant leadership and the NCA’s leadership behaviours to shape culture and service direction. You will secure commitment, lead with integrity, inclusivity, and transparency, and promote collaboration, equity, and psychological safety. Drive patient-centred care by linking performance data to clinical goals, fostering real-time responsiveness, and breaking down cross-specialty barriers. Align nursing, midwifery, and AHP strategies with Trust priorities to reduce inequalities, improve outcomes, and embed a culture of continuous improvement across all care settings.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.