Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 350-TWS8069999-A
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- V7 building
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £94,356 - £108,814 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 31/07/2026
Employer heading
Associate Director of Nursing
Band 8d
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Registered Nurse to join our Executive Nursing and Therapy Team as an Associate Director of Nursing. With strong expertise in physical health care, the successful candidate will lead the physical health agenda across the Trust, with a particular focus on advancing whole-person care, a key strategic priority for the Trust, led at Board level by the Chief Nurse.
We are seeking a compassionate, innovative and driven nurse leader with substantial experience and expertise in physical health nursing. The successful candidate will be highly motivated and bring excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills, underpinned by a strong track record of professional leadership.
The post will report directly to the Deputy Chief Nurse and work closely with the Chief Nurse and the senior leaders within the Executive Nursing and Therapy Team and services across clinical divisions to drive improvements in quality and patient experience within Mersey Care. The postholder will be responsible for the day to day operational and clinical management of direct reports.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide strategic and professional leadership to clinical and non-clinical colleagues and ensure high standards of physical health care and compliance with statutory requirements. The role will support excellent nursing practice to maintain the highest standards of patient care across the Trust.
In addition to the key clinical skills and expertise associated with physical healthcare, the successful candidate will be a confident and resilient leader, able to provide credible professional leadership across the organisation and lead change in a complex and evolving environment. You will bring visible, dynamic and inspiring leadership, empowering the nursing workforce to deliver safe, effective and high-quality care. With a strong strategic outlook, excellent leadership capability and a proven record of success, you will play a key role in helping the Trust deliver outstanding services and improved patient outcomes, supporting and deputising for the Deputy Chief Nurse as appropriate.
Mersey Care’s vision and values drive our organisation and the way we work together to deliver services. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate during recruitment, and any subsequent employment with the Trust, that their behaviour supports our values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respect, Enthusiasm and Support (CARES).
Working for our organisation
At Mersey Care we strive to continually build on our values and
beliefs that will allow all our workforce to develop their potential
and bring their whole self into the organisation. In order to
strengthen our inclusivity and diversity, we recognise the need to
ensure we become more representative of the communities we
serve.
This is recognised in the NHS England EDI Workforce
Improvement Plan 2023 and NHS Workplace Race Equality
Standard that in senior NHS Leadership positions, there is an
underrepresentation of Black and Asian Minority colleagues
(BME).
As an organisation we are committed to our Perfect Care Goal on
Anti-racism and so are employing positive action where we know
there is underrepresentation and for this position therefore, we
encourage applications from people who are from BME
communities.
The Equality Act (2010) permits Mersey Care as a defined public
authority, to take steps to address inequity and
underrepresentation as positive action, and this includes our
approach for this position.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further information and details regarding this role can be found on the job description attached to the vacancy.
Shortlisting will be undertaken on 3rd July 2026
Interviews will take place on 31st July 2026
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse in physical health with evidence of post-basic development
- Educated to master’s degree level or above or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant nursing experience, at least three years of which will have been at senior nurse manager level or above
- Extensive experience of delivering innovation or quality in the safety agenda
- Able to demonstrate experience in promoting clinical and Organisational change across a large and complex organisation
- Significant experience of working in a major leadership or project management role
- Experience of working with Trust Board
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge and experience of managing conflict and enabling individuals to find resolution to their concerns
- A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly effective interpersonal skills
- Articulate individual and effective communicator
- Evidence of leadership and strategic
- Excellent organisational, communication and presentation skills, oral and written
- Ability to lead and build effective teams that can reflect on experience and promote a learning culture
- Ability to disseminate information in a professional manner to nurses and other professionals at regional and national level, as evidenced by presentations at conferences or peer reviewed articles
- Able to deliver complex projects on time
- Highly motivated re modernisation
- Effective strategic thinker/intellectual flexibility
- Computer literate
- High level written and verbal skills
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous improvement – committed to making improvements to our services for the benefit of all.
- Accountability – taking ownership to anticipate, develop and deliver high quality care.
- Respect – how we treat others in an inclusive and supportive way.
- Enthusiasm – demonstrate our passion and pride for what we do and how we do it.
- Support – actively supporting others with compassion and courage
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jenny Hurst
- Job title
- Chief Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 471 2276
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