Director of Children's Nursing & Quality | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Company: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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.

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.

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1,100 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 workplace 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, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 05th November 2026.

Interviews are due to be held on 24th November 2026.

All appointments with a start date on or after 1 October 2026 will be subject to a 12-week probationary period. This provides a structured and supportive period to help you settle into your role, with regular reviews and feedback.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full-time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full-time permanent contract unless you have:

- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduat

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📍 Town of Cambridge