Care Group Nurse Director

Job overview

Care Group Nurse Director (Band 9)

Post 1: Medicine Care Group

Post 2: Women, Children, Young People and Families Care Group

Post 3: Integrated Community Services

Swansea Bay University Health Board is undertaking a significant transformation to become a clinically led organisation, with Care Groups designed around patient need, pathways and outcomes.

As Care Group Nurse Director you will provide senior clinical leadership and professional accountability across the Care Group. Working as part of the triumvirate leadership team, you will hold joint accountability for quality, safety and patient experience, ensuring services deliver consistently high standards of care.

You will lead clinical governance, promote learning and improvement, and ensure patient, family and carer voices help shape service design and delivery. The role requires an inspirational leader who can foster professional excellence, psychological safety and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Applications are welcomed from suitably qualified registered professionals, recognising that some Care Groups may benefit from leadership from a range of clinical backgrounds. Applicants should indicate their top three Care Group preferences within their application and refer to the accompanying Care Group structure document for further information.

Full time (37.5 hours per week). Interview date: 20 November.

Main duties of the job

• Lead service transformation and sustainability initiatives, contributing to the development and delivery of annual and medium
term strategic and operational plans. Ensure services are designed to be responsive, efficient, and aligned with population health
needs and quality standards, while actively monitoring performance to drive continuous improvement and system-wide impact.
• Champions a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and compassionate leadership. The role plays a pivotal part in shaping
and sustaining a positive, inclusive, and values-driven culture, fostering psychological safety, staff wellbeing, and a strong sense of
purpose across multidisciplinary teams.
• Provides expert strategic, operational, and professional leadership for nursing and midwifery services across the Care Group and
is clinically accountable for the development and delivery of high-quality, safe, and compassionate care, ensuring that the needs of
patients and their families are prioritised.
• Responsible for the professional regulation of all NMC registrants, overseeing workforce development to ensure safe, person
centred care. Accountable for maintaining safe staffing levels in line with relevant legislation and service standards, providing
assurance to the Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery and the Chief of Care Group, and proposing solutions to address any
identified risks or deficits.
• Participates in the Gold On-Call rota, and deputising for Executive lead

Working for our organisation

We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.

As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.

You might be a nurse or doctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - we have a job for you.

There are also apprenticeships, work placements and volunteering roles available.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.

Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show that our commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.

If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Essential Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) with appropriate field specific registration. Masters qualification (or evidence of in-depth professional knowledge and equivalent experience). Plus, extensive knowledge over a range of disciplines e.g., professional nursing/midwifery agenda, quality governance, risk management, clinical research and audit, HR, finance, service planning and underpinned by specialist courses or equivalent experience. This level of knowledge would have been obtained over a significant period of senior management posts held within an NHS organisation.

Desirable criteria

• Postgraduate qualification in healthcare leadership, quality improvement, or clinical governance. Coaching qualification. Fellowship or membership of a recognised professional body (e.g., FNF, RCN, QNI).

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience in a relevant senior leadership role within an NHS organisation or equivalent, of strategic planning and development
• Experience of implementation and/or leading a quality management system i.e., the functions of quality control, quality assurance, quality planning and quality improvement.
• Experience of working with a diverse range of stakeholders, including external partners and successful track record of influence and engagement.

Aptitude and abilities

Essential criteria

• Can strategically lead organisation-wide nursing and midwifery initiatives aligned to national and local priorities, driving transformational change and workforce development. Creating inclusive, psychologically safe environments, prioritising staff wellbeing and fostering a culture of support.
• Ability to exercises sound clinical and operational decision-making in complex scenarios, with clear evidence of risk management and ethical practice. Can implement robust quality and safety frameworks, achieving measurable improvements in compliance and patient safety.
• Ability to deliver initiatives that demonstrably enhance patient experience, clinical outcomes, and safety standards. Develops senior nursing leaders and advanced practitioners through structured coaching and career progression support.
• Ability to engage effectively at board level, influencing policy and presenting complex information with clarity to diverse stakeholders. Builds multi-professional partnerships across organisational boundaries, improving patient and staff outcomes.
• Can interpret data to inform service redesign and quality improvement, achieving measurable outcomes. Successfully navigates high-pressure situations and organisational change with composure and flexibility.

Desirable criteria

• Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh.

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel within geographical area.
• Able to work hours flexibly.

Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Welsh language skills are desirable