The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT • Swindon SN3 6BB
About this role
Deputy Chief Nurse
Are you an experienced senior nurse, midwife or AHP leader looking to take on the next challenge in your career? This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to take the next steps in their career working with the Chief Nurse and their portfolio.
We are seeking to appoint an exceptional values based leader with a strong commitment to driving innovation and inspiring the best in people.
As Deputy Chief Nurse, you will showcase a track record of success and experience. You will be responsible for supporting the Chief Nurse to deliver improvements in quality and safety and will ensure that patient experience is at the heart of the organisation.
You will promote excellence in clinical care and professional standards across the Trust, and in the Hospital Group.
You will be responsible and accountable for providing comprehensive and robust strategic and operational professional leadership, guidance, and support to the nursing, midwifery, and allied health professionals across the organisation to deliver the highest standards of care.
The role will seek to improve and build stronger relationships with CQC, and support with the patient experience through better understanding and making meaningful improvements.
We are looking for someone with drive and the ability to inspire, who has a real passion for patient care, developing our future workforce, and the ability to work effectively with key internal and external stakeholders. You will need to role model our values and be a credible senior leader with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
You will need to deputise for the Chief Nurse across the full portfolio of the Chief Nurse’s responsibilities as required.
Swindon is set in the rural county of Wiltshire. The Trust provides acute, primary and community care to thousands of patients across the town and other surrounding areas.
This role will offer a rewarding opportunity to join our ambitious Trust workforce, with a mandate to make a real impact on the outcomes for the people who use our services. Whilst our senior leadership teams do not yet fully reflect the population we serve, we are absolutely committed to ensuring it will be. We will support any successful candidate to be the best version of them and we would therefore like to encourage applicants from any underrepresented groups.
The post holder/s are responsible for supporting the Chief Nurse to deliver the strategy for Nursing, Midwifery and AHPs including Quality Governance and the development of leadership capacity to deliver high quality safe care. The post holder/s will ensure that Patient Experience Is at the heart of the organisation so that all care is patient centered and compassionate and will promote excellence in clinical care and professional standards across the Trust and hospital group.
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This advert closes on Sunday 14 Jun 2026
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