Director of Children’s Nursing & Quality
Band 9
Main area Corporate-Senior Leadership Grade Band 9 Contract Permanent Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ref 180-F-265039
Employer Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Addenbrookes Hospital-Division Corporate Town Cambridge Salary £112,782 – £129,783 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 05/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 24/11/2026
Job overview
Exceptional leadership opportunity to shape the future of nursing, quality and patient care at one of the UK’s leading NHS Trusts
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) is seeking an outstanding and inspirational nursing leader to join our senior leadership team as Director of Children’s Nursing and Quality.
This is a pivotal leadership role within one of our three Accountable Care Groups, offering the opportunity to influence care delivery across complex clinical services while making a lasting impact on patient outcomes, staff experience and organisational performance. The post holder will provide visible, credible and compassionate leadership, ensuring the highest standards of nursing practice, quality, safety and patient experience across the ACG.
Main duties of the job
As an experienced children’s nurse, the Director of Children’s Nursing and Quality will provide professional leadership across nursing, quality, patient safety, patient experience, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, regulatory assurance and clinical governance.You will work alongside the Managing Director and senior clinical, operational and corporate leaders to deliver outstanding care and achieve strategic objectives.
You will play a key role in:
- Leading the nursing, quality and patient safety agenda across the ACG.
- Driving continuous quality improvement and innovation.
- Leading safe staffing, workforce planning and professional development.
- Championing a culture where patients, families and staff are at the heart of everything we do.
About you
- We are looking for an accomplished senior children’s nursing leader who can demonstrate:
- Extensive experience in senior nursing leadership within a large and complex NHS organisation.
- Significant experience leading quality, safety, patient experience and clinical governance.
- Proven ability to influence at executive level and work effectively within multidisciplinary leadership teams.
- Strong understanding of patient safety,quality governance,regulatory assurance and workforce planning.
- Experience of leading large-scale improvement, transformation and service development initiatives.
- A visible, compassionate and inclusive leadership style with the credibility to inspire confidence and drive excellence across services.
Working for our organisation
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation
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