Lead Nurse for Clinical Workforce TransformationNHS
Job summary
This role offers a unique opportunity to influence clinical workforce strategy at a corporate level, lead strategic workforce transformation across multi-professional teams, embedding innovative workforce solutions that support the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care, and play a key role in shaping the future delivery of safe, high-quality care within one of the UK's leading specialist hospitals.
Reporting to the Deputy Chief Nurse, this role will lead the Trust's safer staffing programme and associated workforce transformation agenda, ensuring that safe, effective and sustainable workforce models support the delivery of outstanding patient care. The postholder will work across Nursing, Allied Health Professional and Healthcare Scientist services, providing expert leadership and professional advice on workforce deployment, establishment setting, productivity and clinical workforce assurance.
The role has a significant strategic focus and will lead delivery of a programme of work aimed at improving clinical workforce utilisation, reducing reliance on temporary staffing, optimising staff deployment trust wide and ensuring workforce establishments are aligned to patient need, service demand, and available resources. Working closely with clinical, operational, and corporate teams, the postholder will use workforce intelligence and data systems, and national safer staffing methodologies to support organisational decision-making and clinical workforce sustainability models of care.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide strategic and operational leadership for the Trust's safer staffing and workforce productivity agenda, leading the delivery of workforce transformation programmes that support quality improvement, workforce sustainability and financial efficiency.
You will lead workforce planning activities across the organisation, including establishment reviews, workforce modelling, scenario planning and workforce assurance processes. Using recognised workforce planning methodologies, including the Safer Nursing Care Tool (SNCT), they will analyse workforce, activity and quality data to develop evidence-based recommendations that support safe staffing and effective resource utilisation.
Working collaboratively with Nursing, AHP, Healthcare Scientist, Workforce, Finance, Operational and Business Intelligence colleagues, you will drive improvements in rostering effectiveness, workforce deployment, temporary staffing utilisation, Enhanced Therapeutic Observation and Care arrangements and workforce productivity performance.
The role will be responsible for developing workforce assurance reporting, presenting complex information to senior leaders and providing expert professional advice regarding staffing risks, workforce opportunities and service improvement initiatives. The postholder will contribute to policy development, quality improvement and workforce governance, ensuring compliance with national safer staffing guidance and regulatory requirements.
Job description
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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