Senior Leadership
Introduction to Senior Leadership Roles
Our vision is to realise the great potential of our organisation by empowering our skilled and caring staff to deliver high-quality, financially sustainable services in state-of-the-art facilities. Clinical outcomes will be excellent and with a spirit of openness and candour, we will ensure an outstanding experience for our patients.
In our most recent CQC inspection, our Trust was rated as “Good”, a major benchmark of high quality and effective services. Crucially, the Trust’s approach to caring for patients was rated Outstanding, as was the way our organisation is led. Of the 37 domains inspected on this occasion, which make up the Trust’s overall rating, 31 were either rated as Good or Outstanding.
We are proud of our leaders, working in a wide range of roles and specialties to ensure we deliver outstanding patient care across our Trust. At North Bristol NHS Trust, we value all people as individuals. We are an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We strive to be truly inclusive.
We also work closely with partner organisations across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) as part of the Healthier Together BNSSG Integrated Care Board (ICB) to ensure we realise the opportunities which come from working across the wider health and care system.
What makes North Bristol NHS Trust unique?
What makes North Bristol NHS Trust unique?
×North Bristol NHS Trust is a centre of excellence for healthcare in the Southwest in a number of fields and is also one of the largest hospital trusts in the UK.
We have links to the University of Bristol, the University of Bath, and the University of the West of England. Our annual turnover is £950 million, and we employ over 12,500 staff delivering healthcare across Southmead Hospital Bristol, Cossham Hospital, Bristol Centre for Enablement, and within the local community of Bristol and South Gloucestershire. We treat some of the most difficult medical conditions in an increasingly complex patient population.
NBT Cares. It’s a very simple statement; one which epitomises how everybody across our organisation goes the extra mile to ensure our patients get the best possible care.
Message from Maria Kane – Joint Chief Executive
"NBT strives to work in partnership with our local community, health and care partners, the voluntary sector, patients and their representatives, and of course staff in all positions and professions, to put our values at the heart of what we do and how we do it. We respect and value the diversity of our workforce, patient, service users, relatives, carers and visitors and promote equality of opportunity and outcome for everyone"
Maria Kane - Joint Chief Executive, North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.
Current Senior Leadership Opportunities
Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children
Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children
×We are looking for an exceptional and innovative Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children who will help us further develop our integrated safeguarding service and fulfil our statutory requirements as set out in Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023) and the Intercollegiate Document for the roles and competencies for healthcare staff (2019).
Using safeguarding expertise and highly developed skills you will work in partnership with the safeguarding senior leadership team, specialist practitioners and the other safeguarding named professionals, taking responsibility for children’s safeguarding practice ensuring that structures, systems, policies, and processes are in place and effective across the Trust.
Head of Patient Experience
Head of Patient Experience
×We approved a new 3 year Patient & Carer Experience Strategy in June 2023 and have delivered well within the first (nearly) 12 months since that time. We have a vibrant level of engagement across the Trust, which we are continuously seeking to enhance,. This includes the fabulous team of patient and carer partners who work with us and our wider network of neatly 500 volunteers.
This is a key leadership post to turn the vision into reality, with strong strategic and engagement skills across a large and complex acute trust an absolute necessity.
Quality & Risk Digital System Transition Manager *Internal only*
Quality & Risk Digital System Transition Manager *Internal only*
×This vacancy is currently open for internal applications only
North Bristol NHS Trust is transitioning the majority of its Quality systems from Datix (and other systems) into a new platform, Radar Healthcare, but will be retaining the Datix risk module.
Radar Healthcare system is currently live with 14 events or modules, with further Go lives planned during 2025, most notably, Incident Management (all types) and Mortality reviews. There will also be other smaller event types added.
The Radar Programme is overseen by a small team who have managed the programme and support the Business As Usual modules already in operation.
However, the Datix system expertise supporting the risk module and the legacy incident elements of the Datix system no longer exists and this presents risks whilst finalising the transition for the incident module and also whilst needing to sustain/develop the risk management module (risk register).
This role will sit within the Quality Governance Systems team, which reports into the Director of Quality Governance for the Trust.
Deputy Director of Informatics
Deputy Director of Informatics
×We are seeking a Deputy Director of Informatics to join the Southwest Genomic Laboratory Hub (SWGLH) team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to be involved in the development of the infrastructure supporting the genomics patient pathway in the South west. The UK is recognised worldwide as a leader in genomics allowing us to deliver advances at scale and pace for the benefit of patients and their families. Informatics will play a vital role in the NHS realising the benefits of genomics.
Principal Clinical Scientist
Principal Clinical Scientist
×Bristol Genetics Laboratory (BGL) hosts a fully integrated Cancer Genomic service delivering all Cancer Genomic testing for the South West Genomics Laboratory Hub (SWGLH) . We are seeking a motivated, highly qualified and ambitious individual with experience in Cancer Genomics (Solid tumour or Haematological Cancer) to play a key leadership role within our busy and friendly team.
NBT Cares
Caring
Caring
×We're thoughtful and empathetic
We're thoughtful, showing compassion and kindness to others.
- We offer to help our colleagues.
- We don’t wait to be asked.
- We don’t ignore signs of distress in others.
We’re empathetic and recognise that sometimes we just need to listen
- We recognise we can’t always solve every problem.
- We listen to understand.
- We understand that our priorities aren’t always those of others.
- We don’t always jump to solutions when all somebody wants is to be heard.
- We don’t draw conclusions before we understand.
Ambitious
Ambitious
×We're determined, embrace new opportunities and are constantly developing
We’re enthusiastic and determined to succeed
- We persevere even when there are setbacks.
- We don’t give up at the first hurdle.
We’re constantly growing and developing, individually and together
- We value our potential and find the time to develop our skills, individually and collectively.
- We appreciate constructive feedback and seek it out.
- We don’t treat development as an ‘extra’ or ‘nice to have’.
- We don’t see constructive feedback as criticism.
We embrace new opportunities and are always looking for better
- We constantly look to improve how things work.
- We’re not stuck in our ways or afraid of trying new things.
Respectful
Respectful
×We're sincere, listen and speak up
We’re polite and sincere and show humility
- We say thank you and mean it and acknowledge when we’re wrong.
- We’re not rude or arrogant; or afraid to admit mistakes.
We take time to listen and are open minded and curious
- We’re genuinely interested and recognise that we all have something to contribute.
- When spoken to, we very clearly give our full and undivided attention.
- We don’t pretend to listen because we think we already know it all.
- We don’t interrupt or get impatient with others.
We’re honest with one another and speak up
- We talk things through and are honest about any concerns.
- We recognise our responsibility to speak up about issues that affect physical, emotional and psychological safety.
- We don’t let issues fester.
- We don’t keep quiet when safety is compromised.
Supportive
Supportive
×We're open, encourage one another, act as a team, and deliver
We encourage one another, especially when times are tough
- We do and say the little things that can put a spring in the step.
- We give encouragement to show we care about each other.
- We don’t blame one another when things go wrong.
- We don’t appear disinterested or disengaged.
We’re open, sharing problems and information
- We’re generous in what we share, recognising that others can help.
- We seek out opportunities to include and engage.
- We don’t withhold information just to hold control of power.
We act as a team, showing adaptability and flexibility
- We go out of our way to support others, recognising that they would do the same for us.
- We feel good about offering and receiving help.
- We don’t only measure success through individual achievements.
- We don’t view accepting help as a sign of weakness, neither do we offer help to diminish others.
We do what we say we’ll do so that we can all deliver
- We are clear when we commit to something and are realistic about what we can achieve.
- We expect the same from others, relying on their commitment to deliver.
- We don’t over promise and under deliver.
- We don’t duplicate work that others have committed to do.