Job summary
Supported by the Deputy Chief Nurse, you will lead the safer staffing agenda utilising your knowledge, drive and capabilities to put real change that shapes direct patient care, into action.
Engaging clinical teams to review their establishments, you will enable, enact and support the required changes to the workforce. Your role will be to promote the nursing strategy, focusing on the NHS long term workforce plan for recruitment, whilst maintaining safe therapeutic high-quality environments.
You will play a crucial role in supporting consistency across the clinical directorates, 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.
Close collaboration with the E-Roster team will ensure the right staff, with the right skills, are in the right place at the right time. You will manage the collection, use, and interpretation of related data across inpatient and community services, offering expert advice and guidance and generating six-monthly Safer Staffing reports for the Executive Leadership Team, Quality Safety Committee, and Trust Board.
Additionally, you will act as the Trust professional lead for NMC referrals, revalidation, and other regulatory and professional activities, ensuring good governance and oversight of all cases.
Main duties of the job
Responsibilities:
Lead and coordinate nursing skill mix establishment reviews
Refine processes in line with national guidance
Adopt new methodologies for staffing requirements
Generate ideas and implement work streams to increase staff roster efficiency
Improve recruitment and retention of nursing staff
Develop and implement a target-driven nursing staff recruitment plan
Provide senior nursing professional advice on Safer Staffing
Strategically lead the safe and sustainable staffing agenda across the Trust
Collaborate with the E-Roster team to ensure appropriate staffing
Generate 6 monthly Trust Safer Staffing reports
Manage data related to safer staffing across inpatient and community services
Ensure consistent implementation of Safer Staffing practices across Directorates
Lead the Trust's approach to Safer Staffing in line with national and regulatory requirements
Implement the Community Nursing Safer Staffing Tool (CNSST)
Function as an expert professional leader within Safer Staffing
Contribute to the Trust agenda and hold a portfolio of clinical projects
Act as the Trust professional lead for NMC referrals, revalidation, and other regulatory activities
Ensure good governance and oversight of all cases
Work closely with leads such as safeguarding, clinical Directorate, and Temporary staffing
Facilitate Professional Nurse forums across the organisation
About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- Utilise expert nursing knowledge to support and monitor safer staffing across clinical directorates, ensuring robust clinical governance systems are in place.
- Provide visible clinical and managerial leadership, support, and direction, promoting staff development and capitalising on research opportunities.
- Foster effective communication and shared understanding of nursing workforce requirements, considering future service development and workforce plans.
- Collaborate with Human Resources and Clinical Directorates to develop new roles and optimise nursing resources.
- Act as a role model, promoting high standards of safe and effective care based on best evidence.
- Work with the e-rostering team and Business Intelligence to ensure meaningful use of staffing metrics.
- Lead the introduction and expansion of the Community Nursing Safer Staffing Tool (CNSST) within the Trust.
- Advise Associate Directors of Nursing on staffing during exceptional circumstances.
- Serve as the Trust professional lead for NMC referrals, revalidation, and other regulatory activities.
- 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.
- Support ward managers in workforce planning activities and evidence-based quality impact assessments.
- Champion a safeguarding culture across the Trust.
- Update policies and procedures regarding safe staffing, professional registration, and revalidation as necessary.
- Ensure compliance with Safer Nursing Care Tool licenses.
- Shape the recruitment strategy for nursing with senior colleagues.
- Align nursing establishment recommendations with Trust/National recruitment and retention plans.
- Lead recruitment initiatives for nursing roles, linking with National and Regional workforce initiatives.
- Plan and organise internal and external nurse recruitment events with the Head of Workforce Resourcing.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- Utilise expert nursing knowledge to support and monitor safer staffing across clinical directorates, ensuring robust clinical governance systems are in place.
- Provide visible clinical and managerial leadership, support, and direction, promoting staff development and capitalising on research opportunities.
- Foster effective communication and shared understanding of nursing workforce requirements, considering future service development and workforce plans.
- Collaborate with Human Resources and Clinical Directorates to develop new roles and optimise nursing resources.
- Act as a role model, promoting high standards of safe and effective care based on best evidence.
- Work with the e-rostering team and Business Intelligence to ensure meaningful use of staffing metrics.
- Lead the introduction and expansion of the Community Nursing Safer Staffing Tool (CNSST) within the Trust.
- Advise Associate Directors of Nursing on staffing during exceptional circumstances.
- Serve as the Trust professional lead for NMC referrals, revalidation, and other regulatory activities.
- 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.
- Support ward managers in workforce planning activities and evidence-based quality impact assessments.
- Champion a safeguarding culture across the Trust.
- Update policies and procedures regarding safe staffing, professional registration, and revalidation as necessary.
- Ensure compliance with Safer Nursing Care Tool licenses.
- Shape the recruitment strategy for nursing with senior colleagues.
- Align nursing establishment recommendations with Trust/National recruitment and retention plans.
- Lead recruitment initiatives for nursing roles, linking with National and Regional workforce initiatives.
- Plan and organise internal and external nurse recruitment events with the Head of Workforce Resourcing.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters Degree level or equivalent experience.
- Professional clinical registration
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing the staffing in a complex clinical area
- Experience of completing establishment reviews
- Experience of working across clinical directorates/divisions to develop a trust approach to safer staffing establishment reviews
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of e-rostering and safe care
- Knowledge of professional standards for Nursing and Midwifery across a community and mental health trust
- Knowledge of clinical governance processes
- Able to obtain and evaluate information to aid decision making
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Professional leadership approach and motivational skills
- Passionate about improving services
- Ability to use initiative and encourage others
Other
Essential
- Ability to work across the Trusts geography at short notice.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters Degree level or equivalent experience.
- Professional clinical registration
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing the staffing in a complex clinical area
- Experience of completing establishment reviews
- Experience of working across clinical directorates/divisions to develop a trust approach to safer staffing establishment reviews
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of e-rostering and safe care
- Knowledge of professional standards for Nursing and Midwifery across a community and mental health trust
- Knowledge of clinical governance processes
- Able to obtain and evaluate information to aid decision making
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Professional leadership approach and motivational skills
- Passionate about improving services
- Ability to use initiative and encourage others
Other
Essential
- Ability to work across the Trusts geography at short notice.
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).
