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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust: Chief Nurse Opportunity
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is inviting applications for the role of Chief Nurse, offering an outstanding opportunity for a compassionate and inclusive leader to join a high-performing NHS organisation at a pivotal moment in its development.
About the Trust
As an integrated provider of acute and community services, the Trust serves a population of over half a million people and employs more than 7,000 colleagues, delivering care across hospital sites, community settings and patients' homes.
This is an organisation with a strong sense of purpose and momentum. Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has achieved significant improvements in performance in recent years, including reducing long waiting times and being recognised nationally for emergency care and frailty services. At the same time, it has maintained a deep commitment to staff wellbeing, ranking highly in national staff survey results and demonstrating a culture where people are supported to thrive. The Trust leads the Buckinghamshire Neighbourhood Programme, as well as a forward-thinking approach to embedding digital and AI in its services, whilst construction has begun on the new Wycombe Hospital building.
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Main Duties of the Job
The Trust is looking for a Chief Nurse who shares their ambitions and who is passionate about:
- Improving quality
- Reducing inequalities
- Championing professional excellence
- Ensuring patients’ voices are at the heart of everything we do.
You will bring a strong track record of delivering improvements in quality and safety, leading large-scale cultural change, developing high-performing teams and working effectively across organisational boundaries. Just as importantly, you will be values-driven, politically astute and resilient, with the confidence to provide constructive challenge and make difficult decisions in the best interests of patients, colleagues, and communities.
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This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future of care across Buckinghamshire and make a lasting impact on the health and wellbeing of local communities.
Further Information
For further information please visit www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe134536, or contact our recruitment partners at GatenbySanderson.
- Julia St Clare, Senior Consultant
- E: julia.stclare@gatenbysanderson.com
- T: +44 (0) 7807 631 564
- Laura Cubillo-Aparicio, Senior Researcher
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