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Job Details
Company: Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Location: NCA Wide
Salary: Depending on experience
Schedule: Full-time, Flexible working
Employment Type: Permanent
Language: English
Closing Date: 25 November 2025
Reference Number: 236-NCA-AC171-25-A
About the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
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 achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Job Summary
Shape the Future of Nursing Across the Northern Care Alliance. Are you a visionary senior nursing leader ready to drive transformational change across a dynamic, multi-site NHS Trust? We’re recruiting a Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, Operations – a high-impact leadership role working directly with the Chief Nursing Officer to deliver excellence across the Northern Care Alliance.
This is your opportunity to lead with purpose, influence care at scale, and make a lasting difference for patients, staff, and communities. You’ll provide strategic oversight and visible leadership across fundamental standards of care, quality assurance and clinical governance, safer staffing and workforce development, and patient safety and harm reduction.
If you’re driven by professional excellence, passionate about safe, high-quality care, and ready to lead with courage and clarity – this is your moment. Join us. Lead boldly. Make a difference.
Main Duties of the Job
As a key member of the Chief Nursing Officer team, you’ll champion compassionate, inclusive leadership and help embed a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and improvement. You’ll be at the forefront of service transformation, shaping how nursing evolves to meet the needs of tomorrow.
Your responsibilities will include providing strategic leadership across operational nursing services, ensuring the highest standards of patient care and safety, and driving forward service improvements. You’ll work collaboratively with senior colleagues across the Trust and with partner organizations to deliver integrated care.
You’ll also be responsible for developing and implementing strategies for workforce planning, education and development, ensuring that we have the right skills and capabilities to meet current and future challenges. Leading on quality improvement initiatives and clinical governance will be central to your role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential:
- Registered Nurse
- Post registration qualification
- Graduate
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Masters in health-related subject
Desirable:
- Doctorate in health-related subject
- Post doctoral studies
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential:
- Understanding of integrated health and social care models
- Extensive senior nursing and managerial experience within a large acute Trust
- Extensive experience as an experienced clinical practitioner
- Demonstrates breadth and depth of understanding of current NHS Policy and ability to interpret and implement in practice
- Significant experience across a range of health care priorities
- Experience in developing clinical teams
- Experience of working with national programmes and initiatives
- Experience in managing large scale change successfully
- Evidence of influence and negotiating skills
- Evidence of successful change management
- Evidence of managing projects
- Evidence of managing conflict and deploying successful conflict resolution strategies
- Evidence of securing funding to support organisational initiatives
- Ability to work with different disciplines across the health, education, and social care settings
- Evidence of undertaking audit and contributing to research programmes
Desirable:
- Contributor to research studies
- Publications
Certificate of Sponsorship Information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website for overseas health professionals.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
How to Apply
Apply Instructions: Apply via NHS Jobs website.
International Applicants Checklist:
- Confirm your eligibility for UK work permit with the employer
- Ensure you have current UK professional registration
- Prepare criminal record certificates from all countries where you have lived for 12+ months in the past 10 years
- Check visa processing times and requirements
- Contact the hiring manager with any specific visa-related questions
- Gather all required qualifications and experience documentation
Employer Contact Details
For questions about the job, contact:
Position: Interim Chief Nursing Officer
Name: Juliette Cosgrove
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01612065646
Supporting Documents
The following documents are available to download:
- Job Description.pdf (PDF, 305 KB)
- Functional Requirements.pdf (PDF, 337 KB)
Additional Information
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. All applicants will be considered on the basis of their merits and abilities for the job.
We are particularly keen to encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences that enrich our workforce and better reflect the communities we serve.
Successful candidates will join a dynamic and forward-thinking organization that values innovation, professional development, and compassionate care. We offer a supportive working environment with excellent opportunities for career progression and professional development.
The Trust operates across multiple sites in Greater Manchester, providing a diverse range of healthcare services to a population of over one million people. This offers candidates the opportunity to work in different settings and gain a broad range of experiences.
Our commitment to flexible working arrangements means that we can accommodate individual needs where possible, helping our staff achieve a better work-life balance while maintaining high standards of patient care.
For more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance, please visit our careers website at www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk or explore our main website at https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/.
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