# Band 8c Head of Nursing > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8c-head-of-nursing/dec80cf3-8a79-4f73-a581-a42d3942b41b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8c-head-of-nursing/dec80cf3-8a79-4f73-a581-a42d3942b41b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £88,250 - £100,355 per annum inclusive of HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-19T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-05T10:43:18.588Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Head_Nursing/Head_Nursing-v8032720 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8032720?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Royal Free London Group is seeking an experienced and dynamic senior nursing leader to join as Head of Nursing for Nephrology, Urology and Transplantation within the Division of Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Health (CRM) at the Royal Free Hospital. This is a pivotal role at an exciting time, as the Trust implements a new clinical operational model to strengthen accountability, patient flow, and professional leadership across care pathways. You will play a key role in delivering the Trust’s ambitious vision to provide world-leading healthcare, meet increasing demand, and improve health outcomes for local and specialist populations. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic services within a forward-thinking and innovative organisation. ### Main duties of the job We are seeking a visible, values-driven nurse leader who can inspire and motivate teams through strong clinical credibility, collaboration, and influence. As a key member of the directorate leadership team, you will work in partnership with clinical, operational, people and financial colleagues to drive performance, uphold professional standards, and improve patient outcomes. You will champion equality, diversity, and inclusion, creating an environment where staff feel supported to innovate and thrive. Applicants should have significant senior nursing leadership experience within acute services, with renal and/or urology experience desirable. In return we will offer professional development and leadership training. Key responsibilities: - To lead nursing teams alongside nurse consultants across nephrology, urology, renal and dialysis services across sites. - In collaboration with directorate colleagues ensure delivery of quality, safety, operational and financial objectives of the directorate contributing to overall divisional and health unit performance. - To ensure delivery of clinical and quality strategies for high quality patient centred care - Lead quality improvement, workforce development and professional standards - To work collaboratively across all sites with directorate and divisional teams and senior nursing colleagues to promote and enhance both patient and staff experience. - Contribute to divisional and Trust-wide strategy as a senior nursing leader. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information please see the job description and person specification attached and to arrange an informal visit please contact Ms Anne McReynolds Divisional Director of Nursing Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Health at \[email protected\] ## Job Details Royal Free London Group is seeking an experienced and dynamic senior nursing leader to join as Head of Nursing for Nephrology, Urology and Transplantation within the Division of Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Health (CRM) at the Royal Free Hospital. This is a pivotal role at an exciting time, as the Trust implements a new clinical operational model to strengthen accountability, patient flow, and professional leadership across care pathways. You will play a key role in delivering the Trust’s ambitious vision to provide world-leading healthcare, meet increasing demand, and improve health outcomes for local and specialist populations. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic services within a forward-thinking and innovative organisation. ## Job Description We are seeking a visible, values-driven nurse leader who can inspire and motivate teams through strong clinical credibility, collaboration, and influence. As a key member of the directorate leadership team, you will work in partnership with clinical, operational, people and financial colleagues to drive performance, uphold professional standards, and improve patient outcomes. You will champion equality, diversity, and inclusion, creating an environment where staff feel supported to innovate and thrive. Applicants should have significant senior nursing leadership experience within acute services, with renal and/or urology experience desirable. In return we will offer professional development and leadership training. Key responsibilities: To lead nursing teams alongside nurse consultants across nephrology, urology, renal and dialysis services across sites. In collaboration with directorate colleagues ensure delivery of quality, safety, operational and financial objectives of the directorate contributing to overall divisional and health unit performance. To ensure delivery of clinical and quality strategies for high quality patient centred care Lead quality improvement, workforce development and professional standards To work collaboratively across all sites with directorate and divisional teams and senior nursing colleagues to promote and enhance both patient and staff experience. Contribute to divisional and Trust-wide strategy as a senior nursing leader. ## Responsibilities For further information please see the job description and person specification attached and to arrange an informal visit please contact Ms Anne McReynolds Divisional Director of Nursing Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Health at \[email protected\] ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant acute operational nursing experience in a complex healthcare organisation - Evidence of nursing leadership role in an acute setting - Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them - Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources - Experience in the supervision and management of staff and students - Experience in complex employment related issues - Experience of using acuity tools and triangulation of data to review and ensure safe skill mix - Evidence of leading and managing change within a complex environment - Experience of representing a service within a Trust setting - Experience of managing a budget - Experience of managing other staff groups - Managing a cross site, complex function - Experience of SLAs and contractual working ### Skills and Aptitudes **Essential** - Ability to self -evaluate and self -reflect - Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing meetings - Ability to initiate and implement change and improvements - Good analytical and organisational ability - Ability to demonstrate and model strong leadership skills - Able to communicate with patients and families in an empathetic manner regarding their treatment and procedures and communicate complex sensitive information - Applies working knowledge of relevant health legislation ### Royal Free World Class Values **Essential** - Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values ### Personal Qualities & attributes **Essential** - Ability to lead by example, promoting the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, integrity and probity - High level of work organisation, self - motivation, drive for performance and improvement and flexibility in approach and attitude - Committed to the continuous development of staff and self - To be flexible, decisive, using sound judgement in decision making in a timely and confident manner ### Education & professional Qualifications **Essential** - Registered trained nurse MSc and/ or equivalent clinical experience that recognises highly developed and complex levels of knowledge - Management/leadership qualifications or equivalent experience - Specialist knowledge at doctorate level or equivalent experience in a related field - Evidence of continuing personal development ## Documents - [frf (pdf, 144.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10320534) - [head of nursing (pdf, 374.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10320533) - [nursing and midwifery - benefits, about rfl, values and governing objectives (pdf, 388.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2755) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.