Head of Health Rostering and Safer Staffing
The closing date is 20 October 2025
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and innovative leader to influence safer staffing through use of e-rostering capability and associated digital systems. Clinical experience in a healthcare setting would be an advantage.
With patient safety and quality at the heart of all decision making, you will use extensive knowledge of rostering in healthcare to lead an already award-winning team. You will influence strategic developments and advise the Safer Staffing Steering Group on the ability of digital rostering and associated systems to optimise resources through proactive roster management, daily reviews and responses, and retrospective analysis to identify opportunities for improvements.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
* Lead on the strategic development of E-rostering (electronic rostering) as an instrument to strengthen safer staffing governance for Nursing, Midwifery and AHP colleagues, maintaining and acting as a contact for guidance and support on all aspects of E-rostering, including, but not limited to, e-job-planning for relevant staff.
* Have responsibility for the delivery of the e-rostering team objectives and oversee quality control.
* Work directly with the senior corporate nursing team to deliver on key objectives determined through the Safer Staffing Steering Group and advising the group on system capability and opportunities.
* Lead on compliance and implementation of the national guidance and recommendations from NHSE workforce safeguards and NQB guidance.
* Lead on the deployment of the Safer Nursing Care Tool (SNCT) through training and quality assessment.
* Support operational implementation of workforce safeguards, including the optimisation of the daily review process.
* Support the Head Nurse for Workforce and Education and the Divisional Associate Nurse Directors with bi/annual establishment reviews.
* Support and advise Heads of Nursing and Matrons with regard to staffing during exceptional circumstances.
About us
CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.
Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.
Job responsibilities
Leadership and Management
Provide strategic leadership to the non-medical e-roster team ensuring achievement of agreed key performance indicators (KPIs).
Work with Trust key stakeholders to ensure effective rostering management through the agreed roster approval processes.
Monitor software licence use in line with procurement requirements.
Provide expertise to the Trust in the use of evidence-based tools such as Safer Nursing Care Tool (SNCT), in the implementation of nursing establishment setting and skill mix reviews.
Ensure an agreed system and process for efficient data collection for acuity and dependency scores to support establishment setting.
Support the training and education of the Safer Nursing Care Tool and Safecare categories to all inpatient ward areas, emergency departments and community settings to support establishment setting across the trust including the inter-rater reliability assessment process.
Support compliance with national guidance and quality assurance of an effective safe staffing system, such as NQB guidance and Developing Workforce Safeguards.
Ensure that the Safer Nursing Care Tool licence is kept up to date and the use of the tool within the Trust is within the boundaries of the licence.
In close collaboration with the Head Nurse for Workforce and Education and Divisional Directors of Nursing, support the Chief Nurse Safer Staffing Reviews, ensuring the process is of a high standard and meaningful for participants.
Work collaboratively across the Trust with divisions, ward managers and lead the E-rostering team, to ensure that staff use the systems to maximum potential and provide reports to the Safer Staffing Steering Group, such as (but not limited to) effective real time management of staffing levels, escalation and red flag reporting.
As required, lead safer staffing meetings, embedding use of information in Safecare to support daily staffing decisions.
Audit processes related to nurse staffing management and policy documentation ensuring all SOPs/policies are up to date and being adhered to.
Work with software suppliers to ensure service levels are maintained for the benefit of the Trust. This will include service improvement and operational performance management with the suppliers.
Professional Duties
Continually review overarching processes and procedures across the suite of rostering services to ensure efficient and effective delivery of sustained rostering services.
Lead and manage the team, to ensure it meets business needs and delivers agreed benefits within agreed timescales, budget and to specified quality criteria.
Ensure that business and technical solutions are strategically aligned and move seamlessly into business as usual.
Understand the inter-dependencies between Finance, HR, Training and Payroll systems ensuring that impacts are understood before system changes are made.
Identify, influence and manage the full range of internal and external customers and stakeholders, to ensure that relevant information is communicated effectively. At times this will require communication of highly complex, highly sensitive, highly contentious or conflicting information.
Be responsible for safer staffing policy implementation across the organisation.
Provide reports and presentations to relevant stakeholders and boards.
Provide support and input into commercial and procurement processes and decisions in order to ensure value for money.
Identify, manage, track and report on any system failure risks ensuring mitigation and contingency plans are in place. Communicate risk and business continuity plans to senior management and key stakeholders.
Support ward managers to use the health roster system to ensure the delivery of safe clinical care within a challenging and changing clinical environment, using effective leadership skills.
Interpret system data to produce relevant performance reports. Oversee the production of reports in a timely manner in accordance with the Quality Metrics Dashboard to ensure information reported in the Dashboard is accurate and relevant to the dates being reported on including production of NHSE staffing submission data.
Maintain professional registration, where appropriate, and credibility to ensure continued understanding of clinical implications of any changes to the roster system and/or updates on acuity and dependency tools.
Provide strategic leadership to the rostering team, supporting the team leader to provide a high-quality service at all times; having responsibility for service development aligned to e-rostering throughout the organisation.
Ensure all team members have the skills and competencies required to fulfil their role with a developmental focus. Identifying individual and team learning and development needs and put plans in place to meet these.
Have responsibility for the e-roster team budget setting.
Have line management responsibility for the non-medical e-roster team leader.
Ensure health and well being of direct reports, taking account of any occupational health reports and making decisions about the implementation of reasonable adjustments where appropriate.
Create an annual plan with clear objectives and KPIs for the team.
Undertake and engage in training and development opportunities in order to achieve the essential requirements of the post and to support service developments.
Manage and support staff in line with the Trust’s policies and procedures including supervision, absence management, disciplinary and grievance issues.
Develop robust partnership working arrangements with divisional colleagues at all levels of management across the Trust.
Demonstrate a highly professional approach in working with clinicians, in terms of liaison, technical excellence and timely response.
Undertake all such reasonable other duties as may be required as part of the role.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
* Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent experience
* RLDatix training modules or willing to complete
* Professional Registration with NMC or HCPC
* Leadership Qualification
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
* Experience of change management and quality improvement techniques, e.g. NHS Improvement methodology or Lean.
* Experience of managing and completing complex projects requiring communication which may be highly complex, highly sensitive, highly contentious and/or conflicting.
* Ability to negotiate, persuade and influence.
* Able to develop long term plans for the delivery of significant projects, identifying risks and developing mitigation and continuity strategies.
* Must be able to work to agreed deadlines.
* Demonstrate substantial level of digital literacy, with ability to be proficient in the use of word processing, presentation and spreadsheet software.
* Experience of rostering system administration and use of Safecare.
* Detailed knowledge of the key principles of effective roster management.
* Knowledge and experience of systems management and IT solutions.
* Demonstrates initiative and innovation.
* Ability to critically appraise data and business plans to determine impact and consequences.
* Experience of reviewing workforce models.
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
* Highly effective interpersonal, written and presentational communication skills.
* Ability to present complex and challenging issues to senior management and clinicians.
* One Culture of Care values-based.
* Exhibits enthusiasm for success and change.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
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