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Deputy Director of Nursing for Workforce and Strategy, Bristol City
Client:
North Bristol NHS Trust
Location:
Bristol City, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
dbbf783c9416
Job Views:
7
Posted:
03.03.2025
Expiry Date:
17.04.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Chief Nursing Officer team for a part-time Deputy Director of Nursing for Workforce and Strategy on a 12-month secondment/fixed term basis. We are looking for a highly motivated, ambitious, knowledgeable senior nurse who will support the Director of Nursing to help us achieve our ambitions as set out through the North Bristol NHS Long Term People Plan. Your inclusive leadership style will influence key workforce portfolios such as developing the pathway to nursing, lead on safer staffing, and lead on Trustwide projects, plans, and policies that support nursing and midwifery planning and delivery. The post holder will have a key role in the organisation in developing and maintaining a sustainable nursing and midwifery workforce for the future.
Main duties of the job
1. Support the strategic delivery of the nursing and midwifery workforce programme and strategy across the Trust, using sound professional judgement to interpret national, regional, and local policy.
2. Work with the workforce, talent acquisition, apprenticeship team, and professional colleagues to ensure there is a robust pathway to nursing and midwifery plan aligned to the Trust’s Long Term Workforce Plan.
3. Engage with key stakeholders, such as the Divisional leads, to drive improvements in the workforce metrics and safer staffing.
4. Support regular analysis and interpretation of workforce data and ensure compliance with safer staffing national guidance through close monitoring of key metrics and policy.
5. Undertake bi-annual nursing establishment reviews using Safer Nursing Care Tools (SNCT), identifying key recommendations leading to measurable improvements to patient care.
6. Be responsible to the CNO Director of Nursing for Workforce, Education & Strategy, demonstrating strong professional clinical leadership and role modeling NBT values.
7. Contribute to the development and review of the Trusts and CNO Workforce Strategy.
Working for our organisation
North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre and an internationally recognised center of excellence in a range of services and major specialties. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The purpose of this role is to support the Chief Nursing Office in the delivery of its objectives through the application of Nursing and Midwifery workforce, governance, and operational management knowledge on the key workforce priorities, aligned to the North Bristol NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and national strategy.
The Deputy Director of Nursing for Workforce and Strategy will be responsible for the strategic delivery of the nursing and midwifery workforce programme and strategy across the Trust, supporting the delivery of key projects through engagement and senior leadership.
A key objective of the post is to ensure compliance with safer staffing national guidance through close monitoring of key metrics and policy. The role is crucial for creating and maintaining focus, enthusiasm, and momentum for the safe staffing improvement programmes across the Trust and will contribute to Board reporting on such matters.
The post holder will support the Director of Nursing and the Associate Director Nursing Workforce Recovery to continually improve our safer staffing processes by ensuring policy management, development of Board reports, and assisting with the implementation of Trust and national initiatives.
The post holder will be responsible for the integrity and coherence of their defined projects and will develop and maintain action plans to support each individual project in conjunction with the Director of Nursing. The post holder will also be expected to lead daily staffing meetings.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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