Job overview

Drive Excellence in Patient Care – 9 Month Leadership Opportunity

Are you a dynamic, values-led nursing leader ready to deliver a focused and high-impact programme of work?

We are recruiting a Director of Nursing for a 9 month fixed-term role at Salford Royal Hospital, part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. This is a senior leadership opportunity across a large, complex care organisation, requiring a strategic and purposeful approach to improvement.

We’re looking for someone who can:

• Lead a targeted transformation in patient safety, harm reduction, and fundamental standards of care
• Provide visible, compassionate leadership across nursing, midwifery, and AHP services, inspiring teams and driving performance
• Strengthen quality assurance and governance, ensuring robust systems and regulatory compliance
• Shape and support workforce development, including education, wellbeing, and inclusive leadership
• Champion patient experience, co-production, and equity in care delivery

You’ll be supported by a dynamic and forward-thinking Chief Nursing Officer, committed to enabling bold leadership, innovation, and compassionate care across the organisation.

This is a unique opportunity to make a tangible difference in a short timeframe, influencing outcomes for patients and staff across Salford Care Organisation. If you’re ready to lead with integrity, focus, and ambition, we welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

As a senior leader within the Salford Care Organisation triumvirate, 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. Focused on patient-centred care, you will link performance data to goals, break cross-specialty barriers, and align strategies with Trust and ICB priorities to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes.

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.  

Learn more about us in our Candidate Information Pack (opens in existing window)