Job summary
This role offers a unique opportunity to influence clinical workforce strategy at a corporate level, lead strategic workforce transformation across multi-professional teams, embedding innovative workforce solutions that support the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care, and play a key role in shaping the future delivery of safe, high-quality care within one of the UK's leading specialist hospitals.

Reporting to the Deputy Chief Nurse, this role will lead the Trust's safer staffing programme and associated workforce transformation agenda, ensuring that safe, effective and sustainable workforce models support the delivery of outstanding patient care. The postholder will work across Nursing, Allied Health Professional and Healthcare Scientist services, providing expert leadership and professional advice on workforce deployment, establishment setting, productivity and clinical workforce assurance.

The role has a significant strategic focus and will lead delivery of a programme of work aimed at improving clinical workforce utilisation, reducing reliance on temporary staffing, optimising staff deployment trust wide and ensuring workforce establishments are aligned to patient need, service demand, and available resources. Working closely with clinical, operational, and corporate teams, the postholder will use workforce intelligence and data systems, and national safer staffing methodologies to support organisational decision-making and clinical workforce sustainability models of care.

Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide strategic and operational leadership for the Trust's safer staffing and workforce productivity agenda, leading the delivery of workforce transformation programmes that support quality improvement, workforce sustainability and financial efficiency.

You will lead workforce planning activities across the organisation, including establishment reviews, workforce modelling, scenario planning and workforce assurance processes. Using recognised workforce planning methodologies, including the Safer Nursing Care Tool (SNCT), they will analyse workforce, activity and quality data to develop evidence-based recommendations that support safe staffing and effective resource utilisation.

Working collaboratively with Nursing, AHP, Healthcare Scientist, Workforce, Finance, Operational and Business Intelligence colleagues, you will drive improvements in rostering effectiveness, workforce deployment, temporary staffing utilisation, Enhanced Therapeutic Observation and Care arrangements and workforce productivity performance.

The role will be responsible for developing workforce assurance reporting, presenting complex information to senior leaders and providing expert professional advice regarding staffing risks, workforce opportunities and service improvement initiatives. The postholder will contribute to policy development, quality improvement and workforce governance, ensuring compliance with national safer staffing guidance and regulatory requirements.

About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Nurse (NMC).
• Master's degree or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Experience
Essential

• Significant senior nursing leadership experience.
• Experience of workforce planning and establishment setting with experience of safer staffing methodologies including SNCT.
• Experience leading large-scale service improvement programmes and delivering complex change programmes.
• Experience of budget and workforce management (including methodologies) and working with workforce and financial data.
• Experience presenting and producing reports to senior committees and Boards which demonstrates advanced analytical skills and provides strategic leadership.
• Experience of delivering workforce productivity, financial improvement or cost improvement programmes with demonstrable outcomes.
• Comprehensive understanding of CQC Regulation 18 requirements.
• Understanding of quality improvement methodologies, PSIRF and clinical governance.

Additional Criteria
Essential

• As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that is consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration the successful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to driving culture change through equality, diversity and inclusion.

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).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).