Job summary
Are you a NMC or HCPC registrant looking for a fresh challenge in 2026?Are you passionate about making a difference in patient safety and workforce planning?If you're motivated, enthusiastic, and ready to influence change, this is the role for you!
About the Role
In this senior leadership position, you'll:
- Work closely with Divisional Nurse Directors and Corporate senior leaders, including the Deputy Chief Nurse and Chief Nursing Officer.
- Lead and coordinate non-medical safer staffing across all clinical divisions.
- Drive improvements in roster efficiency, recruitment, and retention strategies.
- Provide expert advice on non-medical safer staffing and workforce planning, influencing decisions at Board level.
- Collaborate with Workforce Deployment and Business Intelligence teams to ensure the right staff, with the right skills, are in the right place at the right time.
- Represent the organisation at regional and national forums.
What We're Looking For
- A dynamic leader with a passion for patient safety and workforce optimisation.
- Strong communication and influencing skills.
- Experience in workforce planning, safer staffing methodologies, and digital tools such as e-rostering.
Interested?
If you're ready to make a real impact on patient safety and staff experience, then we'd love to hear from you.We recommend that interested parties contact Rebecca Bradley for an informal conversation before applying.
Main duties of the job
Main duties and responsibilities
Utilise expert knowledge to support and monitor safe staffing across clinical divisions, ensuring robust clinical governance systems are in place.
Provide visible leadership, support, and direction to clinical teams and managers regarding the safe staffing agenda.
Act as a role model, promoting high standards of safe and effective care based on best evidence.
Work with the Workforce Deployment team and Business Intelligence to ensure meaningful use of staffing metrics.
Lead the introduction staffing models within the Trust.
Advise Associate Directors of Nursing on staffing during exceptional circumstances.
Promote effective use of temporary staffing within agreed financial parameters.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge of national staffing and workforce directives.
Prepare presentations and reports for the Trust Committees and Board as required.
Represent the organization at regional and national Safe Staffing forums, presenting and feeding back information on behalf of the Trust.
Champion a safeguarding culture across the Trust.
Update policies and procedures regarding safe staffing.
Ensure compliance with Safe Nursing Care Tool licenses.
Contribute to internal and external recruitment events with the Head of Resourcing, promoting safe staffing.
About us
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated provider of acute, intermediate and community health care serving the population of Bolton. This provides us with an opportunity for our services to work closely with our partners in primary care and the local authority to ensure a seamless service for our patients.
Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of Care and are guided by our trust Values. We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence for maternity, neonatal and care for children, and that it has been rated as Good by the Quality Care Commission (CQC). This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is also supported by our Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Non-Medical Safe Staffing Lead will play a crucial role in supporting clinical divisions to maximise non-medical staffing provision across the organisation. This involves leading and coordinating non-medical skill mix establishment reviews, refining these processes in line with national guidance, and adopting new methodologies for determining staffing requirements.
In addition, they will generate ideas and implement work streams to increase staff roster efficiency and improve recruitment and retention of non-medical staff.
The postholder will provide senior professional advice and guidance on all aspects of the Safe Staffing agenda to the Deputy Chief Nurse, Chief Nursing Officer and Executive Leadership Team, working closely with the Deputy Chief Nurse, Divisional Nurse Directors, and Senior Leadership teams.
As the lead for non- medical safe staffing, the postholder will collaborate with the Workforce Deployment team to ensure the right staff, with the right skills, are in the right place at the right time.
Responsibilities also include generating Bi-Annual Trust Safe Staffing reports for the Board of Directors, and managing the collection, use, and interpretation of data related to safe staffing across inpatient and community services. The postholder will provide professional and visible senior leadership across the trust, ensuring consistent implementation of safe staffing practices across the Directorates.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Non-Medical Safe Staffing Lead will play a crucial role in supporting clinical divisions to maximise non-medical staffing provision across the organisation. This involves leading and coordinating non-medical skill mix establishment reviews, refining these processes in line with national guidance, and adopting new methodologies for determining staffing requirements.
In addition, they will generate ideas and implement work streams to increase staff roster efficiency and improve recruitment and retention of non-medical staff.
The postholder will provide senior professional advice and guidance on all aspects of the Safe Staffing agenda to the Deputy Chief Nurse, Chief Nursing Officer and Executive Leadership Team, working closely with the Deputy Chief Nurse, Divisional Nurse Directors, and Senior Leadership teams.
As the lead for non- medical safe staffing, the postholder will collaborate with the Workforce Deployment team to ensure the right staff, with the right skills, are in the right place at the right time.
Responsibilities also include generating Bi-Annual Trust Safe Staffing reports for the Board of Directors, and managing the collection, use, and interpretation of data related to safe staffing across inpatient and community services. The postholder will provide professional and visible senior leadership across the trust, ensuring consistent implementation of safe staffing practices across the Directorates.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Clinical Registration (NMC,HCPC)
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of electronic rostering systems, use of safe care
- Experience of utilizing digital technologies to support safer staffing
- Excellent project management skills, able to plan, deliver to timescales, communicate, manage expectations, report progress plans
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate substantial level of digital literacy, with ability to be proficient in the use of word processing, presentation and spreadsheet software
- Able to obtain and evaluate information to aid decision making
- Ability to critically appraise data and business plans, to determine impact and consequences
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge in safe staffing solutions and / or rostering
Other
Essential
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Clinical Registration (NMC,HCPC)
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of electronic rostering systems, use of safe care
- Experience of utilizing digital technologies to support safer staffing
- Excellent project management skills, able to plan, deliver to timescales, communicate, manage expectations, report progress plans
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate substantial level of digital literacy, with ability to be proficient in the use of word processing, presentation and spreadsheet software
- Able to obtain and evaluate information to aid decision making
- Ability to critically appraise data and business plans, to determine impact and consequences
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge in safe staffing solutions and / or rostering
Other
Essential
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
