Chief Nurse: Sponsorship Available

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is inviting applications for the role of Chief Nurse, offering an outstanding opportunity for a compassionate and inclusive leader to join a high-performing NHS organisation at a pivotal moment in its development.

As an integrated provider of acute and community services, the Trust serves a population of over half a million people and employs more than 7,000 colleagues, delivering care across hospital sites, community settings and patients’ homes.

This is an organisation with a strong sense of purpose and momentum. Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has achieved significant improvements in performance in recent years, including reducing long waiting times and being recognised nationally for emergency care and frailty services. At the same time, it has maintained a deep commitment to staff wellbeing, ranking highly in national staff survey results and demonstrating a culture where people are supported to thrive.

The Trust leads the Buckinghamshire Neighbourhood Programme, as well a forward-thinking approach to embedding digital and AI in its services, whilst construction has begun on the new Wycombe Hospital building.

For further information please visithttps://www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe134536, or contact our recruitment partners at GatenbySanderson.

Julia St Clare

T: +44 (0) 7807 631 564

Laura Cubillo-Aparicio

T: +44 (0) 7586 706 878

Main duties of the job

The Trust is looking for a Chief Nurse who shares their ambitions and who is passionate aboutimproving quality, reducing inequalities, championing professional excellence and ensuring patients’ voices are at the heart of everything we do.

You will bring a strong track record of delivering improvements in quality and safety, leading large-scale cultural change, developing high-performing teams and working effectively across organisational boundaries. Just as importantly, you will be values-driven, politically astute and resilient, with the confidence to provide constructive challenge and make difficult decisions in the best interests of patients, colleagues, and communities.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future of care across Buckinghamshire and make a lasting impact on the health and wellbeing of local communities.

Person Specification

Professional Registration

Essential

  • Holds current NMC registration

Skills & Experience

Essential

  • Suitable previous experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 27 September 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.