Job summary
Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group is entering an ambitious period of clinical, estate and service transformation.

Across Lincolnshire, we are developing new models of care that bring services closer to people's homes, strengthen neighbourhood working and create more integrated community services. At the same time, we are transforming our acute hospital estate and progressing a broader portfolio of capital developments, refurbishments, service relocations and infrastructure improvements across the Group.

We are looking for an exceptional senior nurse to join us as Deputy Director of Nursing - Clinical Capital Projects and Workforce Transformation and provide senior clinical leadership across this wider Estates and Capital portfolio.

This is a unique opportunity to influence how our buildings, workforce and models of care develop together.

The postholder will act as the senior clinical bridge between Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals, Care Groups, operational services and our Estates and Capital teams.

You will ensure that clinical requirements are embedded not only within major new-build schemes, but across the broader capital portfolio.

Main duties of the job
A major focus of the role will be clinical workforce transformation.

You will work alongside Care Groups to ensure that investment in the estate is matched by a clear future operating model and workforce transformation plan. This means making sure we do not simply move existing ways of working into new buildings, but use capital investment as an opportunity to redesign pathways, roles, skill mix, technology and multidisciplinary working.

You will also ensure that workforce and clinical requirements are considered early enough to influence estate and capital planning, rather than being addressed once designs have already been developed.

You will contribute to the strategic development of the Group's Estates and Capital portfolio, helping to ensure investment decisions are informed by:

• future clinical strategy;
• population and patient need;
• workforce sustainability;
• neighbourhood models of care;
• acute service transformation;
• patient safety and quality;
• clinical adjacencies and patient flow;
• digital transformation;
• workforce productivity;
• accessibility and health inequalities; and
• long-term service sustainability.

You will provide a strong clinical voice into estate prioritisation and capital planning, helping the organisation understand not only what we need to build, but how services will operate within it and what workforce will be required to make it successful.

About us
At LCHG, our ambition is to create a more integrated model of care across Lincolnshire.

Our emerging neighbourhood approach will support more people to receive coordinated care closer to home, while our acute hospitals continue to evolve to provide high-quality, efficient and sustainable specialist and hospital-based care.

Our estate must support that ambition.

That means developing environments which enable:

• integrated neighbourhood teams;
• prevention and earlier intervention;
• better flow between community and hospital services;
• new workforce and multidisciplinary models;
• digitally enabled care;
• efficient use of clinical space;
• improved patient and staff experience;
• greater productivity;
• flexibility for future service change; and
• consistently safe and high-quality care.

The successful candidate will play a central role in translating this ambition into practical estate, workforce and operating models.

Details
Date posted: 25 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8d
Salary: £94,356 to £108,814 a year
Per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 357-LN-655-26-B
Job locations: Lincoln County Hospital, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, LN2 5QY, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will:

• provide senior clinical leadership across the Groups wider Estates and Capital portfolio;
• contribute to strategic estate planning and prioritisation from a clinical and workforce perspective;
• ensure clinical strategy and future models of care inform capital investment decisions;
• lead clinical workforce transformation associated with major estate and capital developments;
• support Care Groups to develop future workforce establishments, skill mix, leadership models and mobilisation plans;
• ensure nursing, midwifery, AHP and wider clinical teams are meaningfully involved in design and estate decisions;
• provide clinical assurance throughout design, refurbishment, construction, commissioning and opening;
• lead the clinical component of operational readiness and workforce mobilisation;
• contribute to strategic outline cases, outline business cases, full business cases and capital prioritisation processes;
• identify and escalate clinical, workforce and operational risks associated with estate developments;
• provide advice and assurance to the Group Chief Nurse and Estates and Capital governance;
• develop Group-wide clinical design and operational-readiness standards;
• support benefits realisation across the wider capital portfolio;
• lead research, benchmarking and post-occupancy evaluation; and
• ensure learning from individual schemes informs future estate developments across LCHG.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Nurse with current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Master's degree in nursing, healthcare leadership, service transformation, workforce development or a related subject, or equivalent advanced knowledge gained through senior professional experience.
• Evidence of advanced leadership and management development appropriate to a senior strategic role.
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to strategic clinical leadership, workforce transformation and major organisational change

Desirable

• Formal project or programme management qualification, such as MSP, PRINCE2 or equivalent
• Qualification or formal development in healthcare planning, clinical design, estates, capital development or operational readiness
• Research, clinical academic, quality improvement or implementation-science qualification

Skills/Competencies
Essential

• Highly developed strategic leadership, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to gain agreement across clinical, operational, technical and executive teams
• Ability to translate complex clinical pathways and workforce requirements into clear design, operating-model and project specifications
• Highly developed analytical, programme-management and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage significant complexity, uncertainty and competing priorities.

Desirable

• Ability to interpret architectural drawings, room data sheets, digital building models or technical healthcare-planning information.
• Skilled in the use of simulation, human-factors methodology, usability testing or mock-up evaluation
• Ability to develop research proposals, evaluation methodologies or external funding applications

Knowledge
Essential

• Expert knowledge of nursing practice, clinical quality, patient safety, workforce planning and professional standards within a complex healthcare environment.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical workforce transformation, establishment setting, skill-mix design, multidisciplinary working and workforce mobilisation.
• Strong understanding of major capital programme lifecycles, business-case development, clinical design assurance, commissioning and operational readiness.
• Knowledge of NHS governance, financial control, risk management, quality impact assessment and regulatory assurance.

Desirable

• Detailed knowledge of Health Building Notes, Health Technical Memoranda, RIBA stages or equivalent healthcare design standards.
• Knowledge of NHS capital accounting principles and the treatment of directly attributable capital-project costs.
• Knowledge of research governance, implementation science, evidence-based healthcare design or clinical academic practice

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of senior nursing leadership within a complex organisation, including responsibility for strategic service, quality or workforce transformation
• Demonstrable experience of designing and implementing clinical workforce models, including establishment, skill mix, leadership arrangements, education and workforce mobilisation.
• Experience of leading complex clinical pathway redesign and organisational change across professional and service boundaries.
• Experience of contributing to major business cases, options appraisals, programme governance, risk assurance or benefits-realisation processes. o Experience of using research, data, audit,

Desirable

• Experience of working within a major hospital redevelopment, new-build programme, community estate development or significant clinical refurbishment.
• Experience of commissioning, opening, relocating or transitioning services into a new clinical facility
• Experience of working directly with architects, healthcare planners, construction partners, estates teams or technical advisers.

Special Attributes/specific requirements
Essential

• Ability to work autonomously, exercise sound professional judgement and provide independent advice within broad strategic and governance frameworks.
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly across LCHG sites and attend external meetings as required.
• Ability to work flexibly, including occasional evenings or weekends during critical project, transition or opening periods.
• Ability to undertake visits to construction and clinical environments, including wearing appropriate personal protective equipment.
• Professional courage to challenge unsafe, clinically unsuitable or operationally unworkable proposals and escalate concerns appropriately.

Desirable

• Membership of a relevant professional network associated with healthcare design, clinical academia, workforce transformation or capital development.
• Experience of working with universities, research bodies, industry partners or regional and national NHS organisations.
• Ability to represent the Group at regional, national or international professional forums.

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Demonstrates and actively promotes the LCHG values through compassionate, inclusive, visible and accountable leadership
• Builds trusted relationships, listens to different perspectives and creates psychological safety for staff to raise concerns and contribute ideas.
• Committed to equality, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, continuous improvement and reducing health inequalities.

Desirable

• Demonstrates a strong interest in clinical innovation, research, healthcare design and future models of care.
• Has an established professional profile or network that supports collaboration and shared learning.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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).

Employer details
Employer name: United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Address: Lincoln County Hospital, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, LN2 5QY, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.ulh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Executive Assistant, Jane Conneely, jane.conneely@nhs.net, 01522573977

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).