# Group Chief Nursing Officer > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/group-chief-nursing-officer/d20118de-0aee-4125-942c-01eea5838f7f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/group-chief-nursing-officer/d20118de-0aee-4125-942c-01eea5838f7f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - **Town:** Hull - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Salary:** per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-29T09:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-02T13:51:32.965Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Yorkshire/Hull/Hull_University_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Group_Chief_Nursing_Officer/Group_Chief_Nursing_Officer-v8051854 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8051854?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.hull.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest Groups in the NHS, with a budget of over £1.6bn and 19,000 dedicated staff serving 1.5 million people. Bringing together Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG), we deliver care across five hospital sites and community settings providing secondary and tertiary care to a significant sized population. We also deliver a wide range of community services across North and North East Lincolnshire, including district nursing, physiotherapy, psychology, podiatry, and specialist dental services. As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we are a UK leader in research and innovation, and a key partner in the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care System. As a Group we continue to face significant regulatory and performance challenges and have recently been placed into Special Measures by NHS England. With a new Chief Executive and Chair in place, we are focused on driving improvement, strengthening our services, and providing better outcomes for our patients and communities. ### Main duties of the job We are now seeking a Group Chief Nursing Officer to join our Board. This critical role will lead our quality and improvement agenda, providing strategic and professional leadership for Nursing, Midwifery, and Allied Health Professionals across the Group. You will shape our clinical strategy, drive new models of care, and champion a culture that is patient-centred, inclusive, and accountable, playing a key role in the future of care across our Trust. We are seeking an inspiring, values-driven nursing leader with significant board-level experience in a complex, acute setting. You will bring substantial experience in leading quality and clinical transformation, with the confidence to navigate complexity and build trusted relationships at pace. Above all, you will be a visible and inclusive leader who inspires others, champions high professional standards, and consistently puts patients at the centre of decision making. We want our Board to be as inclusive and diverse as possible, and we are keen to attract candidates who can bring diverse perspectives. We warmly welcome expressions of interest from the widest possible range of backgrounds, particularly those who are under-represented at board level in the NHS. This is an exceptional opportunity to define your career, build confidence in our services and make a meaningful, lasting impact for the people we serve. If you share our vision and values and would like to know more, we would be delighted to hear from you. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below. As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide. Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees. We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen. Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues. We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients. We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/ In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement. “We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”. Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role. ## Job Details The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest Groups in the NHS, with a budget of over £1.6bn and 19,000 dedicated staff serving 1.5 million people. Bringing together Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG), we deliver care across five hospital sites and community settings providing secondary and tertiary care to a significant sized population. We also deliver a wide range of community services across North and North East Lincolnshire, including district nursing, physiotherapy, psychology, podiatry, and specialist dental services. As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we are a UK leader in research and innovation, and a key partner in the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care System. As a Group we continue to face significant regulatory and performance challenges and have recently been placed into Special Measures by NHS England. With a new Chief Executive and Chair in place, we are focused on driving improvement, strengthening our services, and providing better outcomes for our patients and communities. ## Job Description We are now seeking a Group Chief Nursing Officer to join our Board. This critical role will lead our quality and improvement agenda, providing strategic and professional leadership for Nursing, Midwifery, and Allied Health Professionals across the Group. You will shape our clinical strategy, drive new models of care, and champion a culture that is patient-centred, inclusive, and accountable, playing a key role in the future of care across our Trust. We are seeking an inspiring, values-driven nursing leader with significant board-level experience in a complex, acute setting. You will bring substantial experience in leading quality and clinical transformation, with the confidence to navigate complexity and build trusted relationships at pace. Above all, you will be a visible and inclusive leader who inspires others, champions high professional standards, and consistently puts patients at the centre of decision making. We want our Board to be as inclusive and diverse as possible, and we are keen to attract candidates who can bring diverse perspectives. We warmly welcome expressions of interest from the widest possible range of backgrounds, particularly those who are under-represented at board level in the NHS. This is an exceptional opportunity to define your career, build confidence in our services and make a meaningful, lasting impact for the people we serve. If you share our vision and values and would like to know more, we would be delighted to hear from you. ## Responsibilities For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below. As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide. Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees. We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen. Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues. We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients. We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/ In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement. “We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”. Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role. ## Person Specification ### Essential **Essential** - N/A ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 240.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10341325) - [important information (pdf, 64.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10341411) - [person specification (pdf, 240.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10341326) ## 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.