Job summary
Employer heading
Joint Chief Nurse
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
Joint Chief Nurse
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Trust-wide, expected to be present across both sites
Attractive salary.
Please do not submit application here. Details of how to apply can be found below.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust are recruiting a Joint Chief Nurse to join us in a key leadership role across both Trusts. Nicola Firth has successfully established this joint position over the last two years and will retire in early 2026.
We are now seeking to recruit her successor and provide the new postholder with a smooth transition to become a voting member of the Boards of both organisations, reporting to our highly experienced Joint Chief Executive, Karen James OBE.
Main duties of the job
As our Joint Chief Nurse, you will play a key role in providing strategic leadership across both Trusts as well as with partners in the wider systems. Responsible for patient experience and quality assurance, you will inspire confidence through your knowledge and expertise, ensuring that our Boards of Directors keep quality of care at the heart of all decision making. This role will be vital as a visible leader and role model for our values and behaviours, championing inclusivity, patient safety and quality, and improvement at all levels.
Working for our organisation
Our Trusts have a long history of partnership working as geographical neighbours, with some of our Executive Directors sitting across both Boards, driven by our shared commitment to enhancing patient care, improving health outcomes, and ensuring the sustainability of services for the benefit of our patients and communities. Both Trusts provide integrated acute and community services for the populations they serve.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust delivers acute hospital services across the Stockport locality of Greater Manchester, supporting around half a million patients every year from across Stockport, East Cheshire, and the High Peak area of Derbyshire. We have an annual budget of £400m and 6,500 staff. Our latest CQC rating was Requires Improvement overall, with a rating of Good in the Caring domain, and we continue to make progress in our transformation journey.
Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust supports around 250,000 patients in Tameside, Glossop working across the ICBs in both Greater Manchester and in neighbouring Derbyshire. We have an annual budget of £290m and 4,150 staff, with a CQC rating of Good overall. Our strategy is focused on reducing inequality and improving the population health of our communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced senior nursing leader, with a track record of operating at board level to deliver continuous improvement and high-quality, safe care in complex health and care environments. You will possess the ability to inspire and influence across a diverse and varied range of stakeholders, bringing exceptional communication and interpersonal skills. Your ability to demonstrate our values as you empower our dedicated staff and collaborate with stakeholders and partner organisations across two Integrated Care Systems, will be crucial to driving positive change in the transformation of our health and care services to achieve outstanding healthcare for all.
We are keen to attract candidates who can bring diverse perspectives, and we welcome expressions of interest from the widest possible range of backgrounds, particularly those who are under-represented at board level in the NHS.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require a Standard DBS check at a cost of £21.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Experienced senior nursing leader, with a track record of operating at board level to deliver continuous improvement and high-quality, safe care in complex health and care environments
- Ability to demonstrate our values as you empower our dedicated staff and collaborate with stakeholders and partner organisations across two Integrated Care Systems,
Essential
Essential criteria
- Ability to drive positive change in the transformation of our health and care services to achieve outstanding healthcare for all.
Essential
Essential criteria
- Ability to inspire and influence across a diverse and varied range of stakeholders, bringing exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
Essential
Essential criteria
- Ability to drive positive change in the transformation of our health and care services to achieve outstanding healthcare for all.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emily Perry,
- Job title
- Principal Researcher, Gatenby Sanderson
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07538 979416
- Additional information
For further information, please visit our recruitment website: www.join-stockporttamesideandglossop.co.uk
For a confidential discussion about this exceptional opportunity, please contact GatenbySanderson via:
Emily Perry, Principal Researcher
E: [email protected]
T: 07538 979416Niamh Blair, Delivery Consultant
E: [email protected]
T: 07747 207285Emma Pickup, Partner
E: [email protected]
T: 07590 225 470
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