Role Overview
The Head of Nursing & Quality for Marie Curie Bradford Hospice will provide senior clinical leadership, ensuring outstanding standards of care, strong clinical governance, and a culture of continuous quality improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide visible, compassionate and credible senior nursing leadership.
- Lead and assure clinical governance, quality, risk and safeguarding.
- Drive service improvement and learning using data, audit and feedback.
- Ensure compliance with CQC, NMC and internal Marie Curie standards.
- Support, develop and inspire senior nurses and multidisciplinary teams.
- Contribute to strategic planning and regional clinical leadership forums.
Compensation & Contract
Salary: £64,500 – £72,000 per annum.
Contract: Permanent, Full Time – 35 hours per week.
Location: Marie Curie Bradford Hospice.
Qualifications & Experience
- Registered Nurse (NMC) with current level 1 registration (essential).
- Substantial senior leadership experience within complex healthcare environments, ideally hospice, palliative, community or acute settings.
- Significant experience in clinical governance, quality and patient safety.
- A track record of service improvement and change leadership.
- Confidence working with regulators (e.g., CQC) and managing inspections.
- Excellent communication and engagement skills.
- A values‑led approach aligned with compassionate, person‑centred care.
Experience in end‑of‑life or hospice care is desirable but not essential.
Benefits
- Annual leave allowance 25 days plus 8 public holidays (pro‑rata).
- Hybrid working.
- Competitive policy for parental and sick leave.
- Continuous professional development.
- Industry‑leading training programmes.
- Season ticket loan for travel to and from work.
- Defined contribution pension schemes.
- Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme.
- Loan schemes for bikes, computers and satellite navigation systems.
- Friend scheme.
- Help with eye‑care costs.
- Entitled to Marie Curie Blue Light Card.
- Entitled to Benefit‑Hub Discount Scheme.
- Life assurance for all employees.
Equal Opportunity
We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications from people of all cultures, perspectives and lived experiences. We are happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
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