Associate Nurse Director

Job summary
The Trust is seeking a highly motivated individual to take up the post of Associate Nurse Director (8b) within the Specialist Care Group on a permanent basis.

The successful candidate will work within the Neuro Rehabilitation and Specialist MH Services Clinical Business Unit (CBU) as part of the collective leadership team. The collective leadership team is responsible and accountable to the Specialist Care Group Director triumvirate.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated senior nurse to join the Collective Leadership team in the role of Associate Nurse Director. Reporting directly to the Group Nurse Director, the role is to support the Neuro Rehabilitation and Specialist MH Services Clinical Business Unit (CBU) in the achievement of objectives associated with care delivery, across a diverse range of inpatient and community based clinical services

The AND role has professional responsibility to core Trust Quality and Safety business, including recruitment of Nursing Staff, Health and Wellbeing, Safeguarding and Infection, Prevention and Control.

Main duties of the job
The Associate Nurse Director will be expected to always display the Trust values. The successful candidate will be working as part of collective leadership team to ensure that the effectiveness and safety of patient care is delivered in a patient centred manner, whilst ensuring that decision making is as close to the patient as possible.

The Associate Nurse Director will be working within a federal model, working to organisational requirements whilst influencing areas of direct managerial responsibility and clinical pathways with a proportionally shared accountability and responsibility for the quality delivery of services. They will also lead on developments across services. The Associate Nurse Director will provide professional leadership ensuring the nursing workforce and clinical teams develop high quality evidence based, clinical and nursing care and interventions consistently, through the service area.

About us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

Job responsibilities
Please find attached job description for full details.

Date advertised - 13th October 2026

Closing date - 27th October 2026

Qualifications

• First level registered Nurse. Evidence of continuous professional development. Educated to degree level or equivalent experience. Recognised teaching qualification. Recognised management qualification or equivalent experience.

Desirable

• Educated to masters level

Experience

• Extensive specialist knowledge of and experience of a range of professional nursing issues. Knowledge and experience of HR processes including recruitment and selection, discipline and grievance, appraisal and personal development planning. Ability to reflect and critically analyse serious and untoward incidents. Understanding of the management of budgets and financial planning. Ability to demonstrate leadership through change management. Ability to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change or successful delivery of major change initiatives and projects within the organisation at an advanced level. In depth knowledge and experience of the quality and safety agenda. Significant record of achievement of delivering objectives and innovation approach.

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to prepare and present concise reports. Able to manage time and self effectively and meet strict deadlines. Ability to solve problems and work on own initiative. Proven ability to solve highly complex clinical and professional issues. Excellent interpersonal and diplomacy skills being able to communicate with a diverse audience to gain their respect and confidence. Role/Team specific requirements Flexible approach

Personal characteristics

• Articulate. Ability to think creatively and respond positively in a constantly changing environment. Excellent inter-personal skills and experience in leading and managing change Ability to motivate self and others. Effective team member. Demonstrable Leadership skills at an advanced level involving team and service delivery. Required to be mobile across all sites and services and at times function as a lone worker.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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