Job summary
Safer Staffing Lead Nurse, Band 8a
Permanent - Full Time - 37.5 hours per week
As an expert practitioner provide leadership and guidance on improving all aspects of the Safe Staffing agenda, creating an infrastructure that enables services to ensure that the right staff, with the right skills, are in the right place, at the right time.
By working collaboratively across all inpatients areas be responsible for ensuring Oxleas is meeting the regulatory standards in line with 'Developing workforce safeguards' (2018), by developing and supporting services to implement effective governance and best practice for staff deployment and workforce planning
Provide strategic professional and visible senior nursing leadership across the trust, ensuring appropriate advice regarding Safer Staffing is provided to ensure consistency of implementation across the Operational Service Directorates
Support the implementation of safe rostering practices across Oxleas bedded services.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will have specialist knowledge and function as an expert professional leader within Safer Staffing, effectively contributing to the Trust agenda.
Further information is provided below and in the attached Job Description.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Lead on delivering the Safe Staffing improvement plan by creating sustainable systems and governance processes that promotes compliance with national and statutory safe staffing standards.
- Ensure all policies related to Safer Staffing are maintained and updated.
- Lead on the implementation the trust rostering improvement project. This will include challenge the status quo with authority, to improve practice for the benefit of safe and supportive care.
- Take the lead role for directorate engagement in the communication and implementation of safe staffing practice.
- Monitor safer staffing levels and skill mix with the services managers to ensure safe and supportive care.
- Lead on safer staffing establishment reviews with the Chief Nursing Officer and Deputy Chief Nursing Officer.
- Support the development of safe staffing best practice by identifying learning needs within the directorates to support.
- Facilitate the development of establishment review meetings within the directorates to enhance quality of rostering.
- Lead on the biannual establishment review process for the bedded service and drive improvements through.
- Maintain effective communication systems for staff working closely alongside the post holder and across the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Lead on delivering the Safe Staffing improvement plan by creating sustainable systems and governance processes that promotes compliance with national and statutory safe staffing standards.
- Ensure all policies related to Safer Staffing are maintained and updated.
- Lead on the implementation the trust rostering improvement project. This will include challenge the status quo with authority, to improve practice for the benefit of safe and supportive care.
- Take the lead role for directorate engagement in the communication and implementation of safe staffing practice.
- Monitor safer staffing levels and skill mix with the services managers to ensure safe and supportive care.
- Lead on safer staffing establishment reviews with the Chief Nursing Officer and Deputy Chief Nursing Officer.
- Support the development of safe staffing best practice by identifying learning needs within the directorates to support.
- Facilitate the development of establishment review meetings within the directorates to enhance quality of rostering.
- Lead on the biannual establishment review process for the bedded service and drive improvements through.
- Maintain effective communication systems for staff working closely alongside the post holder and across the organisation.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Current NMC registration first level nurse with evidence of continuous professional development
- Over 3 years senior nurse experience at band 7 or above
- Studied to Masters level or equivalent experience
Desirable
Essential
Essential
- Project Management qualification and experience
Essential
Essential
- Current NMC registration first level nurse with evidence of continuous professional development
- Five years post registration experience of which 3 years experience are at a senior level in nursing.
Desirable
- Previous experience of working in inpatient sectors
- Experience of professional leadership and/or training
- Experience of using healthroster systems and understands good roster management
- Experience of leading and managing change
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Current NMC registration first level nurse with evidence of continuous professional development
- Over 3 years senior nurse experience at band 7 or above
- Studied to Masters level or equivalent experience
Desirable
Essential
Essential
- Project Management qualification and experience
Essential
Essential
- Current NMC registration first level nurse with evidence of continuous professional development
- Five years post registration experience of which 3 years experience are at a senior level in nursing.
Desirable
- Previous experience of working in inpatient sectors
- Experience of professional leadership and/or training
- Experience of using healthroster systems and understands good roster management
- Experience of leading and managing change
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
