UHN Deputy Head of Nursing - Family Health
Location
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
9/4/2025
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Description
Are you an inspirational and dynamic nursing leader looking for your next challenge? Do you have a passion for urgent and emergency care and a drive to make a real difference to patients, colleagues, and services?
You will support the Head of Nursing Family Health in strategic and operational decision-making, working collaboratively across UHN. Innovation and transformation will be key to this role, as you embed best practice and improve patient pathways. As a visible and supportive leader, you will develop and empower teams to excel in emergency care delivery.
Managerially accountable to the Head of Nursing and Professionally accountable to the Chief Nurse.
The post holder will have operational responsibility for ensuring the delivery of clinical quality standards, patient safety, and the overall patient experience in the Division, providing professional leadership, advice, and support for the Division to ensure that there is a consistency of practice high standards of care with a strong patient safety focus.
Working with a vision of delivering the UHN Values, the Deputy Head of nursing will support the Head of Nursing and the Division Triumvirate to provide professional leadership management to the Nursing service for the Division.
We are seeking an experienced nursing leader with significant experience in Family Health and a proven track record of leading service improvements. Strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills are essential, along with a commitment to patient safety, quality improvement, and staff development. You will need the ability to work under pressure, make sound clinical and operational decisions, and drive continuous improvement.
If you are a motivated and experienced nursing leader who is ready to take the next step in your career, we would love to hear from you.
Support the Head of Nursing to deliver a safe sustainable affordable Nursing workforce across the Division.
Working alongside the Head of Nursing the Deputy Head of Nursing will be responsible for the care and professional practice delivered within a significantly large Division. This would equate to a nursing (registered and unregistered) workforce of more than 550 funded whole time equivalent staff and could cover more than one hospital site.
However, the area of responsibility may be smaller in size and volume if there is a requirement for large scale change of service or that the complexities of the service are significant. Complexities of the service may come from the national profile that the specialty attracts or the consistent need to engage and work with stakeholders/agencies outside of the organisation.
Our Excellence Values
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tritania Chasiya Job title: Head of Nursing Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07743194782
You will support the Head of Nursing Family Health in strategic and operational decision-making, working collaboratively across UHN. Innovation and transformation will be key to this role, as you embed best practice and improve patient pathways. As a visible and supportive leader, you will develop and empower teams to excel in emergency care delivery.
Managerially accountable to the Head of Nursing and Professionally accountable to the Chief Nurse.
The post holder will have operational responsibility for ensuring the delivery of clinical quality standards, patient safety, and the overall patient experience in the Division, providing professional leadership, advice, and support for the Division to ensure that there is a consistency of practice high standards of care with a strong patient safety focus.
Working with a vision of delivering the UHN Values, the Deputy Head of nursing will support the Head of Nursing and the Division Triumvirate to provide professional leadership management to the Nursing service for the Division.
We are seeking an experienced nursing leader with significant experience in Family Health and a proven track record of leading service improvements. Strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills are essential, along with a commitment to patient safety, quality improvement, and staff development. You will need the ability to work under pressure, make sound clinical and operational decisions, and drive continuous improvement.
If you are a motivated and experienced nursing leader who is ready to take the next step in your career, we would love to hear from you.
Support the Head of Nursing to deliver a safe sustainable affordable Nursing workforce across the Division.
Working alongside the Head of Nursing the Deputy Head of Nursing will be responsible for the care and professional practice delivered within a significantly large Division. This would equate to a nursing (registered and unregistered) workforce of more than 550 funded whole time equivalent staff and could cover more than one hospital site.
However, the area of responsibility may be smaller in size and volume if there is a requirement for large scale change of service or that the complexities of the service are significant. Complexities of the service may come from the national profile that the specialty attracts or the consistent need to engage and work with stakeholders/agencies outside of the organisation.
- Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications**
Our Excellence Values
- Compassion
- Accountability
- Respect
- Integrity
- Courage
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tritania Chasiya Job title: Head of Nursing Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07743194782
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