# Deputy Regional Chief Nurse - Director of Stat Funcs, Progs & Imp

**Company**: NHS England
**Location**: South East
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: fixed-term
**Salary**: £100,000 to £200,000 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Deputy Regional Chief Nurse, Director of Statutory Functions, Programmes and Improvement is a senior nursing leader responsible for providing strategic clinical leadership, professional oversight and assurance across the region.

Reporting to the Regional Chief Nurse, the postholder will lead key statutory functions and programmes, including safeguarding, infection prevention and control, mental health, learning disability and autism, Continuing Healthcare, patient experience and quality improvement.

Working collaboratively with Integrated Care Boards, provider organisations, national teams and system partners, the postholder will support the delivery of NHS England priorities, promote high standards of quality and safety, and drive improvement across health and care services.

They will provide expert advice on nursing, midwifery, clinical governance and risk, ensuring effective quality oversight and the implementation of national policy and improvement programmes.

The role requires strong system leadership, partnership working and the ability to influence at executive level to improve outcomes, reduce variation and support the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate care.

The postholder will deputise for the Regional Chief Nurse as required and contribute to the strategic leadership of the region, helping to deliver the ambitions of the NHS 10 Year Health Plan and the Model Region Blueprint.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council

- Up to date experience as an Executive Chief Nurse at Board level within a provider NHS trust/ foundation trust, or ICB.

- Knowledge of the regulatory framework on Nursing and Midwifery, experience of managing complex professional regulatory issues

- Demonstrably committed to and focused on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes

**Benefits:**

- Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

- Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

**Additional Information:**

- Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

## Skills

### Required
- Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
- Executive Chief Nurse experience
- regulatory framework knowledge

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