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Lead Nurse for Nursing Workforce, Practice and Education

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Location
Salary
£62,215 - £72,293 pa
Profession
Nurse (adult and children)
Grade
Band 8
Deadline
13 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
27 Jun 2025

Job overview

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a detailed job description, main responsibilities and person specification see the attached documents.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse with NMC

Safer staffing Fellow or working toward

Master’s Degree in relevant topic

Demonstrable evidence of continuing professional development

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

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

Technical Skills Competencies

Essential

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

Essential

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