Lead Nurse for Nursing Workforce, Practice and Education

Lead Nurse for Nursing Workforce, Practice and Education

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Main area Nursing Workforce Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ref 153-CO04737

Department name 1. UHD – General Recruitment Site Cross site Town Bournemouth and Poole Salary £62,215 – £72,293 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 13/07/2025 23:59

As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.

We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.

In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.

We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.

We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.

At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women\’s Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.

As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support the preparation of their application. While this is not discouraged, we kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of your own experience and suitability. Personal integrity is an important part of the recruitment process.

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.

Working for our organisation

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.

UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.

This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions at interview.

Please note if a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under relevant Trust or national terms and conditions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

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

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

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

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

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with NMC
• Safer staffing Fellow or working toward
• Master’s Degree in relevant topic
• Demonstrable evidence of continuing professional development
• Leadership management course
• Teaching qualification / training

Experience

• 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
• Experience using QI tools and techniques
• Experience influencing and leading at a system level
• Conference presentation and publications

Please note:

Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.

This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst this vaccination is not a condition of employment we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.

Internal Candidates: staff employed prior to merger who voluntarily change jobs will be appointed to UHD terms and conditions.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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