# Dep Dir of Nursing-Clin Capital Projects&Wforce Transformation - B8D > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/dep-dir-of-nursing-clin-capital-projectsandwforce-transformation-b8d/17fecba8-88c8-40d4-952e-a966fc651755 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/dep-dir-of-nursing-clin-capital-projectsandwforce-transformation-b8d/17fecba8-88c8-40d4-952e-a966fc651755.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust - **Location:** Lincoln County Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £94,356 - £108,814 Per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-15T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-02T11:49:53.346Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lincolnshire/Lincoln/United_Lincolnshire_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Group_Chief_Nurse/Group_Chief_Nurse-v8339424 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8339424?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ulh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group is entering an ambitious period of clinical, estate and service transformation. Across Lincolnshire, we are developing new models of care that bring services closer to people’s homes, strengthen neighbourhood working and create more integrated community services. At the same time, we are transforming our acute hospital estate and progressing a broader portfolio of capital developments, refurbishments, service relocations and infrastructure improvements across the Group. We are looking for an exceptional senior nurse to join us as Deputy Director of Nursing – Clinical Capital Projects and Workforce Transformation and provide senior clinical leadership across this wider Estates and Capital portfolio. This is a unique opportunity to influence how our buildings, workforce and models of care develop together. The postholder will act as the senior clinical bridge between Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals, Care Groups, operational services and our Estates and Capital teams. You will ensure that clinical requirements are embedded not only within major new-build schemes, but across the broader capital portfolio. ### Main duties of the job A major focus of the role will be clinical workforce transformation. You will work alongside Care Groups to ensure that investment in the estate is matched by a clear future operating model and workforce transformation plan. This means making sure we do not simply move existing ways of working into new buildings, but use capital investment as an opportunity to redesign pathways, roles, skill mix, technology and multidisciplinary working. You will also ensure that workforce and clinical requirements are considered early enough to influence estate and capital planning, rather than being addressed once designs have already been developed. You will contribute to the strategic development of the Group’s Estates and Capital portfolio, helping to ensure investment decisions are informed by: - future clinical strategy; - population and patient need; - workforce sustainability; - neighbourhood models of care; - acute service transformation; - patient safety and quality; - clinical adjacencies and patient flow; - digital transformation; - workforce productivity; - accessibility and health inequalities; and - long-term service sustainability. You will provide a strong clinical voice into estate prioritisation and capital planning, helping the organisation understand not only what we need to build, but how services will operate within it and what workforce will be required to make it successful. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The successful candidate will: - provide senior clinical leadership across the Group’s wider Estates and Capital portfolio; - contribute to strategic estate planning and prioritisation from a clinical and workforce perspective; - ensure clinical strategy and future models of care inform capital investment decisions; - lead clinical workforce transformation associated with major estate and capital developments; - support Care Groups to develop future workforce establishments, skill mix, leadership models and mobilisation plans; - ensure nursing, midwifery, AHP and wider clinical teams are meaningfully involved in design and estate decisions; - provide clinical assurance throughout design, refurbishment, construction, commissioning and opening; - lead the clinical component of operational readiness and workforce mobilisation; - contribute to strategic outline cases, outline business cases, full business cases and capital prioritisation processes; - identify and escalate clinical, workforce and operational risks associated with estate developments; - provide advice and assurance to the Group Chief Nurse and Estates and Capital governance; - develop Group-wide clinical design and operational-readiness standards; - support benefits realisation across the wider capital portfolio; - lead research, benchmarking and post-occupancy evaluation; and - ensure learning from individual schemes informs future estate developments across LCHG. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Expert knowledge of nursing practice, clinical quality, patient safety, workforce planning and professional standards within a complex healthcare environment. - Comprehensive knowledge of clinical workforce transformation, establishment setting, skill-mix design, multidisciplinary working and workforce mobilisation. - Strong understanding of major capital programme lifecycles, business-case development, clinical design assurance, commissioning and operational readiness. - Knowledge of NHS governance, financial control, risk management, quality impact assessment and regulatory assurance. **Desirable** - Detailed knowledge of Health Building Notes, Health Technical Memoranda, RIBA stages or equivalent healthcare design standards. - Knowledge of NHS capital accounting principles and the treatment of directly attributable capital-project costs. - Knowledge of research governance, implementation science, evidence-based healthcare design or clinical academic practice ### Experience **Essential** - Evidence of senior nursing leadership within a complex organisation, including responsibility for strategic service, quality or workforce transformation - Demonstrable experience of designing and implementing clinical workforce models, including establishment, skill mix, leadership arrangements, education and workforce mobilisation. - Experience of leading complex clinical pathway redesign and organisational change across professional and service boundaries. - Experience of contributing to major business cases, options appraisals, programme governance, risk assurance or benefits-realisation processes. - Experience of using research, data, audit, **Desirable** - Experience of working within a major hospital redevelopment, new-build programme, community estate development or significant clinical refurbishment. - Experience of commissioning, opening, relocating or transitioning services into a new clinical facility - Experience of working directly with architects, healthcare planners, construction partners, estates teams or technical advisers. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Nurse with current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. - Master’s degree in nursing, healthcare leadership, service transformation, workforce development or a related subject, or equivalent advanced knowledge gained through senior professional experience. - Evidence of advanced leadership and management development appropriate to a senior strategic role. - Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to strategic clinical leadership, workforce transformation and major organisational change **Desirable** - Formal project or programme management qualification, such as MSP, PRINCE2 or equivalent - Qualification or formal development in healthcare planning, clinical design, estates, capital development or operational readiness - Research, clinical academic, quality improvement or implementation-science qualification ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Demonstrates and actively promotes the LCHG values through compassionate, inclusive, visible and accountable leadership - Builds trusted relationships, listens to different perspectives and creates psychological safety for staff to raise concerns and contribute ideas. - Committed to equality, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, continuous improvement and reducing health inequalities. **Desirable** - Demonstrates a strong interest in clinical innovation, research, healthcare design and future models of care. - Has an established professional profile or network that supports collaboration and shared learning. ### Skills/Competencies **Essential** - Highly developed strategic leadership, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to gain agreement across clinical, operational, technical and executive teams - Ability to translate complex clinical pathways and workforce requirements into clear design, operating-model and project specifications - Highly developed analytical, programme-management and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage significant complexity, uncertainty and competing priorities. **Desirable** - Ability to interpret architectural drawings, room data sheets, digital building models or technical healthcare-planning information. - Skilled in the use of simulation, human-factors methodology, usability testing or mock-up evaluation - Ability to develop research proposals, evaluation methodologies or external funding applications ### Special Attributes/specific requirements **Essential** - Ability to work autonomously, exercise sound professional judgement and provide independent advice within broad strategic and governance frameworks. - Ability and willingness to travel regularly across LCHG sites and attend external meetings as required. - Ability to work flexibly, including occasional evenings or weekends during critical project, transition or opening periods. - Ability to undertake visits to construction and clinical environments, including wearing appropriate personal protective equipment. - Professional courage to challenge unsafe, clinically unsuitable or operationally unworkable proposals and escalate concerns appropriately. **Desirable** - Membership of a relevant professional network associated with healthcare design, clinical academia, workforce transformation or capital development. - Experience of working with universities, research bodies, industry partners or regional and national NHS organisations. - Ability to represent the Group at regional, national or international professional forums. ## Documents - [workwell plan (pdf, 10.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3099) - [ceo welcome letter (pdf, 83.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2883) - [ulht staff networks (pdf, 13.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2739) - [jd - deputy director of nursing (pdf, 472.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10663390) - [acceptable use of ai in personal statements (pdf, 95.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2953) ## Agent Notes - 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