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Medway NHS Foundation Trust

About

Medway NHS Foundation Trust is a public benefit corporation authorised under the National Health Service Act 2006. It is a single-site hospital based in Gillingham, Medway Maritime Hospital, which serves a population of more than 424,000 across Medway and Swale.

We provide clinical services to almost half a million patients a year, including more than 125,000 Emergency Department attendances, more than 88,000 admissions, more than 278,000 outpatients appointments and more than 5,000 babies born last year.

As an NHS Foundation Trust, we have a 24-strong Council of Governors and more than 10,000 public members. We employ around 4,400 staff, making us one of Medway’s largest employers. In addition, close to 400 volunteers provide invaluable support across the League of Friends, Hospital Radio and the Voluntary Services Department.

Contact

Address: Medway Maritime Hospital; Windmill Road; Gillingham; Kent; ME7 5NY
Contact Number: 01634 830000

Find out more

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Ref: 275-2602DDoN-MEC Vacancy ID: 7817476

Divisional Director of Nursing for Medicine and Emergency Care

Accepting applications until: 08-Mar-2026 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 08-Mar-2026 23:59

Location

Site: Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Windmill Road
Town: Gillingham
Postcode: ME7 5NY
Major / Minor Region: Kent

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £109,179 - £125,637 per annum/pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 9)

Specialty

Main area: Medicine and Emergency Care

Interview date: 17/03/2026

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.

Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Provide professional and clinical leadership for nursing and allied health professional staff across the Medicine & Emergency Care Division.

Lead and assure delivery of high-quality, safe and person-centred care, ensuring that the fundamentals of care are consistently delivered.

Maintain and strengthen compliance with CQC regulations, including ongoing delivery of improvement actions relating to patient safety, dignity, medicines optimisation and flow.

Act as a key divisional leader for quality, patient safety and experience, embedding learning from incidents, complaints, audits and mortality reviews.

Work closely with the Divisional Director of Operations and Divisional Medical Director as part of the divisional triumvirate, providing balanced leadership across quality, performance and workforce.

Ensure clinical competence, professional standards and workforce capability are maintained and developed, including education, training and succession planning.

Lead and support a positive, inclusive and psychologically safe culture where staff feel able to raise concerns and contribute to improvement.

Contribute to Trust-wide nursing and quality strategy, including delivery of the Professional Nursing Agenda and stabilisation and improvement priorities

You will be:

A senior registered nurse with significant leadership experience at the divisional, director or equivalent level.

Credible, visible and confident in leading in high-pressure clinical environments including emergency and acute care.

Experienced in quality improvement, patient safety, regulatory compliance and governance.

Values-driven, compassionate and committed to developing people and improving patient experience.

Able to balance operational reality with professional standards, providing calm decisive leadership during periods of challenge and change.

Accountability

Professionally accountable to the Chief Nursing Officer for professional nursing standards, quality and the development of nursing services within the Division.

Operationally accountable to the Divisional Director of Operations.

Works closely with Trust executive colleagues and corporate teams to ensure alignment between divisional delivery and Trust priorities

Why Join Us?

Lead one of the Trust’s most complex and high-impact clinical divisions.

Make a tangible difference to patient safety, experience and staff wellbeing.

Work closely with an engaged executive team committed to improvement, transparency and learning.

Further develop your executive leadership capability in a visible, influential role.

Please note that we do not accept applications via CV or recruitment agencies.

This post will close before the intended closing date should sufficient number of suitable applications be received. Therefore, if you are interested in applying for this role, we suggest that you do so at the earliest opportunity.

Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.

All staff no matter where they work or which age group of patients they work with must be aware of their responsibility to act when they feel a child, young person or vulnerable adult has been or is at risk of abuse.

We are a fully non-smoking Trust. Smoking is completely prohibited in all Trust buildings, grounds and car parks for patients, visitors, staff and contractors.

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If you have not heard from us within 21 days of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.

We wish to stress that no discourtesy is intended in following such a procedure, and you should not let this deter you from future applications.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
Professionally trained managerially either via a recognised management qualification or a recognised professional development programme
Evidence of continued professional development

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledge of finance & HR Policies and Procedures in the NHS
Clear understanding of transformation programmes and service development and improvement
Extensive specialist knowledge of the NHS & Social Care, equivalenet to doctorate level, including infrastructure and arrangements at national, regional and local levels
Up-to-date knowledge of NHS system reform policy and other key policy drivers. (Performance Management, operating Framework, capacity planning, payment by results, independent sector development and Foundation Trust issues)

Experience

Essential criteria

Extensive experience in effective and supportive people management
Expert working knowledge of performance management techniques and of using Business Intelligence solutions to work within a performance management framework
Demonstrable and extensive experience of working at a Divisional Management Director level
Extensive and broad ranging experience leading multiple clinical services
Demonstrable, significant experience in implementing innovative clinically led services
Evidence to support programme of personal and professional development
Proven experience of successfully managing divisional-wide budgets and delivery of Trust-wide productivity and efficiency programmes
Proven experience of leading change through people, by effective and engaging leadership
Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.

Skills

Essential criteria

Demonstrable ability in inter-agency communication and negotiation; including collaborative working
Ability to analyse highly complex and contentious issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
Extensive demonstrable experience of strategic planning across divisions
Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
Demonstrable ability in implementing change and evaluation (in complex and changing environments to deliver sustainable services)
Ability to communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information orally and in writing, both internally and externally, to a range of audiences
Ability to prepare and deliver presentations and reports to a high standard (Board level quality)
Ability to analyse and interpret highly complex information and to make judgements regarding a range of highly complex management issues
Ability to plan, manage, adjust and deliver complex projects, involving multiple agencies and individuals and a broad range of activities, to tight deadlines