Head of Nursing

Job Description:

Head of Nursing - Health Clinics

Location: London (Angel Court) or Manchester (Bupa Place) - Weekly travel to office required.

Hybrid/Flexible working

Full-time - 37.5 hours

Permanent

Competitive salary and benefits package

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 22nd July 2025

We make health happen!

Bupa has set an ambition, at the heart of its strategy, to be the world's most customer centric healthcare company. With key targets such as world leading NPS scores, and integrated digital and physical care, Bupa is transforming to fulfil its purpose of "helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world".

Are you a visionary nursing leader passionate about delivering safe, effective, and compassionate care? Bupa Health Clinics is seeking a dynamic Head of Nursing to lead our nursing workforce and shape the future of clinical excellence across our UK clinics.

As Head of Nursing, you will provide strategic clinical leadership, ensuring our nursing services meet the highest standards of care, governance, and innovation. You'll work closely with operational and leadership teams to drive quality, safety, and customer satisfaction.

How you'll help us make health happen:

• Lead and support the nursing workforce across Bupa Health Clinics.
• Work with the Quality and governance team to ensure that clinical audit programmes are implemented and monitored.
• Engage in clinical governance meetings, ensuring that safety, quality, and compliance remain central to nursing service delivery.
• Oversee clinical governance, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance.
• supporting preparation, compliance, and staff training.
• Work with operational teams to analyse complaint trends and implement quality improvement initiatives.
• Support customer service training for clinical teams, ensuring a positive customer experience.
• Develop and implement clinical policies, KPIs, and risk management strategies.
• Champion professional development and career pathways for nurses.
• Collaborate on business development, product innovation, and public health campaigns.

Key Skills/Qualifications needed for this role:

Essential:

• Registered Nurse (NMC) with significant leadership experience.
• Proven expertise in clinical governance, quality improvement, and risk management.
• Strong understanding of CQC and other regulatory standards.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Desirable:

• Postgraduate qualification in healthcare leadership or management.
• Experience in private or corporate healthcare settings
• Involvement in digital health or innovation projects

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Free health assessment for you and your spouse
• Target bonus of 10% based on individual and company performance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Nursing & Theatres

Locations:

Bupa Place, Home Based, c/o Angel Court