Job summary
Employer heading
Safer Staffing and Nursing Recruitment Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
An exciting opportunity to join the Trust to lead the safe and sustainable staffing agenda working closely with the Associate Director of Nursing and Professional Practice, Resourcing team, Chief Nurse and Deputy Chief Nurses. You will lead on compliance and implementation of the national guidance and recommendations from NHSE/I workforce safeguards and NQB guidance. Our Safer Staffing and Nursing Recruitment Lead will be an experienced leader with proven people management skills and will hold NMC Registration.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the job description and person specification for a full list of duties.
- Lead on deployment of the safer nursing care tool through training and quality assessment
- Support and advise associate directors of nursing and professional practice regarding staffing during exceptional circumstances.
- Be the Trust professional lead for temporary staffing NMC referrals, revalidation, and other regulatory and professional activities.
- Promote effective use of temporary staffing to enable the provision of safe nursing and midwifery standards within agreed financial parameters.
- Maintain up to date expert knowledge in national staffing and workforce directives and research.
- Be responsible for preparing presentations and reports to Trust Board as required by Deputy CNO.
- Support ward managers to ensure workforce planning activities, including reconfiguring of nursing and midwifery establishments and evidence-based quality impact assessments
Working for our organisation
An exciting opportunity to join the first Trust in England to provide joined up hospital and community care with social care. We believe that the best way to care for people is by focusing on what matters to them, putting them at the centre of everything we do and integrating services around them.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Masters Degree
- Management / leadership qualification
- Demonstrable senior team management experience and leadership
Desirable criteria
- Working towards post graduate CPD modules or M/Phil/PhD in relevant subject to role
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Leadership experience and skills
- People management
- Proven ability to lead meetings, including agenda setting, chairing the meeting and facilitating engagement Trust wide
- Evidence of applying current research to practice
- Good IT skills, understanding of Office Works suite including PowerPoint
- Proven oral and written communication
- Good team worker with the ability to work autonomously
- Evidence of effective communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to listen
- Able to work on own initiative and prioritise work with competing priorities
- Able to work in a challenging, busy environment
- Experience in effectively handling competing priorities, meeting challenging deadlines and delivering under pressure
- Knowledge and experience of practice and policy across a broad range of responsibilities e.g. finance and budgetary control, corporate and clinical governance, health and safety HR
Desirable criteria
- Proven teaching and assessing skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of national safe staffing and workforce agenda
- Proven and significant leadership experience at senior nurse or midwife level
- Proven senior level experience of leading and delivering complex change
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
- Member of a relevant professional body
- Experience in managing clinical services, leading teams through service change
- Knowledge of national safe staffing agenda influencing professional and practice development
Desirable criteria
- Presented posters or abstracts
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to lead and develop the team
- Innovative and responsive to change
- Be an excellent and positive role model to all our staff and patients
- Effective personal organisation skills
- Highly motivated and with a drive for performance improvement
- Ability to work collaboratively and willingness to share and learn from/with others
- Effective decision making skills
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrea Wreford
- Job title
- PA to the Chief Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01803 655712
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