Deputy Director Nursing - BSW

Location: Swindon

# Deputy Director Nursing - BSW## Job Introduction At HCRG Care Group, we believe that the quality of clinical leadership is the single greatest driver of safe, outstanding services. We are looking for an experienced, credible and inspiring nurse leader to join us as Deputy Director of Nursing for our B&NES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Business Unit, a role of genuine influence, strategic reach and clinical impact at a pivotal time for our services.

As the most senior nursing leader in BSW, you will be the professional voice for nursing and AHP colleagues across the business unit. You will be a core member of the BSW Senior Leadership Team, operating as a strategic partner to the Chief Nursing Officer and Regional Director, and providing the kind of visible, accessible clinical leadership that our services and our colleagues deserve.

This is not a desk-based role. We expect you to be a familiar, trusted presence across our BSW services, visible to the full range of colleagues, including those working nights, weekends and in community settings. You will have full autonomy over how you organise your diary to make that happen, but we would expect a commitment of three to four days on-site each week across the BSW footprint.

You can be based anywhere within BSW.No two weeks will look the same. You may spend a morning with a community nursing team in Swindon, an afternoon in Bath at a quality assurance review, and the following morning providing written assurance to the CNO on a clinical issue. You will thrive here if you lead with warmth and authority in equal measure, and if you are genuinely energised by the scale and diversity of what community health can achieve.

If you are a senior nurse leader with the clinical credibility, operational grip and emotional intelligence to shape culture across a large and complex business unit. If that sounds like you, this is your opportunity
** Package Description
** As Deputy Director of Nursing – BSW, you’ll be part of our senior clinical leadership team at HCRG Care Group. You will feel genuinely valued in this role, with access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* NHS Agenda for Change Band 8c salary with an NHS pension
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you discounts on everyday purchases, plus cashback and voucher offers for treats and essentials
* Access to your wages as you earn them, helping cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest borrowing
* Online and in-person wellbeing support, including mental health services, activity challenges, financial wellbeing tools, coaching and counselling
* Access to e-learning, bespoke career pathways and professional development opportunities through our ‘Outstanding’ Learning Enterprise team
* An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to contribute ideas, backed by ring fenced innovation funding each year
* The pride of working for an organisation where the majority of our rated services hold ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ ratings from the Care Quality Commission
** Main Responsibilities
** As Deputy Director of Nursing – BSW, you will be accountable for senior clinical leadership across the full breadth of our BSW services. This means much more than overseeing governance frameworks: being the person that colleagues, managers and commissioners look to when they need a senior clinical voice, a trusted advocate for safe practice, or a leader who will make difficult decisions with care and confidence.
** Visible Leadership and Professional Voice
** You will lead through presence. With a structured programme of site visits and service engagement, shaped around you and planned to reach colleagues across all shifts, settings and working patterns, you will build the kind of relationships that make clinical leadership real rather than theoretical. You will chair or co-chair professional nursing and AHP forums across BSW, represent the business unit at organisational and system-level forums, and set the standard for how clinical leadership looks and feels in HCRG Care Group.

Colleagues should know your name, see your face, and feel that you genuinely care about their work.
** Clinical Governance and…