Safe Staffing Lead

An opportunity to contribute to the development and implementation of a comprehensive nursing workforce strategy that outlines and supports the trust's strategic intent to clinical professional and career development. Oversight of the processes that ensures the trust has a high calibre of professional staff with the right skills to deliver the best possible care to patients, and in response to a changing health service.

To work with the Head of Multi Professional Practice Education, Head of Learning, Development and Workforce Inclusion, Head of HR Operations and Retention and finance colleagues to align professional education, workforce clinical priorities, ensuring delivery is integrated across the trust.

Support implementation, monitoring and evaluation of new clinical roles, new ways of working and skill mix changes to secure sustainable service delivery at a time-of-service re-design.

To lead on and ensure the Trust has a robust and dynamic policy and process for clinical non-medical workforce planning and redesign, including evidence based bi- annual nursing skill mix reviews in partnership with key stakeholders and regular monitoring of the nursing resource in terms of cost effectiveness

Lead on the implementation to reduce clinical agency spend and work in partnership with the Temporary Worker Service to develop a comprehensive temporary worker pool, 1. To lead on the ward establishment reviews and non-ward-based nursing reviews for all nursing workforce, comparing highly complex demand and capacity analysis against workforce.

2. To lead on processes to maintain assessment of daily safe staffing and systems which support the allocation of appropriate nursing resource in collaboration with operation leads.

3. Working with the Head of HR Operations and Retention, jointly lead on the work improving effective long-term recruitment and retention of nurses to actively work towards the reduction of agency spend.

4. To contribute to corporate decision-making at strategic and operational levels in delivering high quality care.

5. To be available and accessible for staff to turn to for assistance, advice and support, on professional, highly sensitive issues acting as a clinical and managerial resource.

6. To have in-depth knowledge of clinical and professional issues, specifically related to nursing to provide leadership, advice and support to the Trust.

7. To implement national policy as it relates to workforce standards.

8. Provide clinical guidance to Temporary Worker Service and eRoster team to help shape practice and support provided to clinical teams.

9. Prepare and deliver high-quality, concise, and evidence-based reports, including to Board , providing clear analysis, assurance, and recommendations to support informed decision-making.

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