Deputy Chief Nurse - Blood SupplyNHS
Job summary
As Deputy Chief Nurse, you will play a pivotal strategic and professional leadership role within Blood Supply, supporting the Chief Nurse to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, high-quality donor care services across NHS Blood and Transplant's blood and apheresis operations. You will lead on clinical governance, professional standards, education and workforce development, while ensuring regulatory compliance and excellence in donor experience. This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced senior nursing leader to influence national strategy, drive service improvement, champion innovation and contribute to the delivery of life-saving services across England.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for:
- Provide strategic clinical and professional leadership across Blood Supply services.
- Deputise for the Chief Nurse and represent the function at senior leadership forums both within NHSBT and externally.
- Lead the development and implementation of nursing strategy, education programmes and workforce development initiatives.
- Ensure robust clinical governance frameworks are in place, promoting donor safety, regulatory compliance and high-quality care.
- Lead on safeguarding, clinical risk management, incident review and quality improvement programmes.
- Drive continuous improvement and transformational change across donor care services.
- Provide expert clinical advice on donor care, patient safety and professional nursing practice.
- Lead major strategic projects, research programmes, service developments and clinical innovations.
- Build effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, including national and international healthcare organisations.
- Inspire, develop and support a geographically dispersed nursing and multidisciplinary workforce
Job description
As a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applications from disabled candidates. We will talk with you to explore any adjustments that may help you during the recruitment process.
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About us
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.