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Lead Nurse for Nursing Workforce, Practice and Education
The closing date is 13 July 2025
This role is an essential part of the senior nursing leadership team focusing on meeting our current and future workforce plans. Engaging clinical teams to review their establishments, you will enable, enact and support the required changes to the workforce.
The post holder will play a crucial role in supporting consistency across the care groups, creating strategic insights to shape safe and sustainable staffing across the Trust whilst generating innovative solutions to increase roster efficiency and improve recruitment and retention.
The post holder will support the Deputy Chief Nurse and Care Groups with the overview and coordinating functions for leading and developing the Trust approach to Nursing workforce/safer staffing in line with national and regulatory requirements.
The post holder will build upon their specialist knowledge and function as an expert within workforce development, effectively contributing to the Trust agenda.
Main duties of the job
To lead on the nursing and midwifery establishment reviews and non-ward-based nursing reviews.
To lead on processes to maintain assessment of daily safe staffing and systems which support the allocation of appropriate nursing resource.
To lead on the effective recruitment and retention of nurses and reduction of agency project.
To lead on the governance arrangements for clinical policies, procedures, and nursing competencies related to safe staffing.
To contribute to corporate decision-making at strategic and operational levels.
To support on all aspects of pre and post registration nursing education.
To be visible and accessible for staff to turn to for assistance, advice, and support, acting as a clinical and managerial resource.
To have in depth knowledge of clinical and professional issues, specifically related to nursing to provide leadership, advice and support to the Trust specifically related to The Code: Professional Standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates.
To implement national policy as it relates to clinical and professional issues.
To support in the development of clinical practice facilitating clinical education for professional and non-professional staff.
To work collaboratively with the E-roster team and the nursing directorate education and recruitment team.
About us
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions at interview.
Please note if a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under relevant Trust or national terms and conditions.
Job responsibilities
For a detailed job description, main responsibilities and person specification see the attached documents.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Registered Nurse with NMC
Safer staffing Fellow or working toward
Masters Degree in relevant topic
Demonstrable evidence of continuing professional development
Experience and Knowledge
Evidence of delivering nursing performance including safer staffing, skill mix reviews, infection control, risk management, complaints, and Adverse incidents.
Proven ability to manage and deliver complex and changing workload, which will include the need to identify and resolve conflicting priorities within tight timescales
Experience of working with a diverse range of stakeholders and a successful track record of influence and engagement
Commitment to improving the patient journey
Critique of research findings to benefit area of practice
Analytical skills to interpret complex data and action
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to communicate complex information.
Ability to motivate self and others
Strong and demonstrable decision-making skills clinical and non-clinical
An ability to form relationships at various organisational levels both internally and externally.
Ability to write reports for lay and professional audiences.
Experience of using audit to influence adoption of best practice
Ability to undertake additional skills as required.
Other Specific Requirements
Knowledge of nursing theory and best practice
Understanding clinical governance issues.
Good general fitness to support active work pattern visiting wards and departments.
Ability to travel across all sites
Effective influencing skills and political awareness
Enthusiastic and self-motivated
Ability to manage conflicting and constantly changing priorities.
Ability to work within a rapidly changing environment
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse with NMC
* Safer staffing Fellow or working toward
* Master's Degree in relevant topic
* Demonstrable evidence of continuing professional development
* Leadership management course
* Teaching qualification / training
Experience
* Evidence of delivering nursing performance including safer staffing, skill mix reviews, infection control, risk management, complaints, and Adverse incidents.
* Proven ability to manage and deliver complex and changing workload, which will include the need to identify and resolve conflicting priorities within tight timescales
* Experience of working with a diverse range of stakeholders and a successful track record of influence and engagement
* Commitment to improving the patient journey
* Experience using QI tools and techniques
* Experience influencing and leading at a system level
* Conference presentation and publications
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.
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