Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Chief Nurse
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Chief Nurse Role
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 Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS 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 a forward-thinking approach to embedding digital and AI in its services, whilst construction has begun on the new Wycombe Hospital building.
Role Description
The Trust is looking for a Chief Nurse who shares their ambitions and who is passionate about improving quality, reducing inequalities, championing professional excellence and ensuring patients’ voices are at the heart of everything we do.
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- You will bring a strong track record of delivering improvements in quality and safety
- Leading large-scale cultural change
- Developing high-performing teams
- 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.
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.
Why Colleagues Think We Are "A Great Place To Work"?
What Does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Offer You?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- Learning and development opportunities
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Pension scheme
- Access to NHS discount schemes
- Range of health and wellbeing services
What Do We Stand For?
- Vision: To provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
- Mission: To provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
- We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
- We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact Pam.Daley@nhs.net (Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.
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Further Information
For further information please visit https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe134536, or contact our recruitment partners at GatenbySanderson.
Contact Information:
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Julia St Clare
- E: julia.stclare@gatenbysanderson.com
- T: +44 (0) 7807 631 564
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Laura Cubillo-Aparicio
- E: Laura.Cubillo-Aparicio@gatenbysanderson.com
- T: +44 (0) 7586 706 878
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Neil Edwards
- Job Title: Resourcing Project Manager
- Email Address: neil.edwards5@nhs.net
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