# Associate Director of Nursing - Urgent & Emergency Care

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- **Location:** East Surrey Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Manager and corporate
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 per annum plus high cost allowance
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-02T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19T15:30:53.964Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Redhill/Surrey_Sussex_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Urgent_Emergency_Care/Urgent_Emergency_Care-v8241955
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8241955?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.surreyandsussex.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

With the growth and development of our Urgent and Emergency Care offering, this is an exciting time to join our team as Associate Director of Nursing - Urgent and Emergency Care.

This senior nursing leadership role will be responsible for shaping the strategic, professional and operational leadership of Urgent and Emergency Care services (ED, SDEC & UTC) and for contributing to the wider professional nursing leadership, quality governance and workforce agenda across the Medicine Division and Trust.

Collaborative working with the Clinical Director, General Manager, Divisional Chief Nurse, operational teams and system partners, you'll be a key to the development of integrated urgent and emergency care pathways, ensuring patients receive timely assessment, treatment and onward care within clinically appropriate timescales.

Success will require role modelling of visible, compassionate and effective leadership; supporting and coaching colleagues to do the same.

Expert knowledge and extensive prior experience of emergency care quality indicators, operational performance metrics, workforce productivity, patient safety measures and national urgent and emergency care standards, will be key to leading and being accountable for continuous improvement initiatives that contribute to safe and sustainable delivery of the NHS Constitutional Standards.

### Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information regarding the role please read the attached job description and person specification.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Ceiteria

**Essential**

- Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
- A complete and accurate application
- Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
- Evidence of essential experience for role
- Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
- Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
- Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
- Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 832.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10554922)
- [our organisation values (pdf, 247.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2213)
- [trust statement on recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 334.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2214)

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