Lead Nurse for Safer Staffing & Nursing Workforce
| Posting date: | 17 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £53,755.00 to £60,504.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53755.00 - £60504.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 July 2025 |
| Location: | Fulbourn, CB21 5EF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9310-25-0580 |
Summary
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.