Director of Nursing - Professional & System Development
NHS England
Any North East and Yorkshire Region, S66 1YY
Salary
£100,000 to £113,625
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
13 September 2026
13 days left
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Nursing and Quality Directorate in the North East and Yorkshire region as Regional Director of Nursing ...
Aligned with the region, the Regional Director of Nursing Leadership and Systems will lead at regional level on:
Regional portfolios
Supporting Quality Improvement, surveillance and assurance, including safety, safeguarding and patient experience, with providers and commissioners
Supporting clinical sustainability e.g. transformation
Professional leadership across providers and commissioners
System relationships and partnerships
Driving improvements
The post holder will deputise for the Regional Chief Nurse as required.
As Regional Director of Nursing Leadership and Systems will be expected to use expert knowledge of quality care combined with a robust knowledge of the health and care service working in collaboration with relevant colleagues, they will take the regional leadership responsibilities in one or more of the following areas: clinical and professional leadership for nursing and midwifery staff, patient safety (in conjunction with the Medical Directors), patient experience; and support the delivery of national priorities of NHS England, as well as the relevant national strategies e.g. The 10 year Plan.
The post holder will oversee the quality framework across the region and ensure that Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) have a clear and consistent focus on quality and patient experience.
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025,the Government announcedthat NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
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.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Qualifications
Essential
- Current registration with the Nursing & Midwifery Council
- Relevant Master's degree or equivalent
- Significant senior or Board-level nursing leadership experience within the NHS.
- Extensive knowledge of quality, patient safety, safeguarding, professional regulation and the wider NHS system.
- Proven ability to influence and build effective relationships across organisations, leading system-wide improvement and transformation
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Experience across community, mental health, ambulance, or maternity services.
- Experience in education and workforce development.
- Experience leading large-scale change and transformation.
Experience and skills
Essential
- Significant experience as a senior nurse at board level or equivalent within a provider NHS trust/ foundation trust, SHA, or PCT or an Arm's length body.
- Experience of working with regulators
- High level of understanding of the NHS and care system, political environment and evidence-based approach to decision making
- Understanding of the political and cultural complexity of the NHS
- Significant board / senior management level experience in the NHS
Desirable
- Experience or knowledge of training and education
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the regulatory clinical frameworks, including nursing, and experience of managing complex professional regulatory issues
- Knowledge of clinical, including nursing, practice and education policy
- Knowledge of safety systems, including reporting and monitoring systems and associated policies / guidelines.
- Knowledge of quality assurance and improvement methods and their application
- Knowledge of the FT application processes, NHS I compliance regime and quality framework and CQC compliance framework
- Knowledge of adult and child safeguarding
- Knowledge of IPC practice and policy
- Knowledge of how to apply different approaches to change across the health service
- Extensive knowledge of clinical, including nursing, practice and a strong understanding of the concepts which underpin approaches to improving the delivery of compassionate care to patients within health and social systems
- Knowledge of national and international developments in improvement, and large-scale change
- Knowledge of the national compassionate care agenda, and levers for change in the NHS system
- Extensive experience of developing and delivering national strategies
- Experience of leading and managing disparate multidisciplinary staff including virtual and home working employees
- Extensive networks across the NHS
- Extensive experience of developing and successfully implementing regional and or national strategies and initiatives
- Experience of working with local/national politicians and national media, particularly in times of crisis
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
28 August 2026
Last checked
31 August 2026
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