Dep Dir of Nursing,Clinical Capital Projects&W/force Transformation-8D

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 94,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Annual Leave 27–33 days

Flexible working

On-site nurseries

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Deputy Director of Nursing – Clinical Capital Projects and Workforce Transformation to lead clinical strategy across the Estates and Capital portfolio.

You will provide senior clinical leadership, shape future workforce models, and ensure nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals are integrated into capital schemes. This is a high-impact, strategic role within Lincolnshire’s health system.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current registration (NMC).
• Master’s degree in nursing, healthcare leadership, service transformation or related subject.
• Evidence of advanced leadership and management capability.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior clinical leadership across the Group’s Estates and Capital portfolio.
• Contribute to strategic estate planning and prioritisation from a clinical and workforce perspective.
• 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 involved in design and estate decisions.
• Provide clinical assurance throughout design, refurbishment, construction, commissioning and opening.

Skills

Leadership

Education

NMC registration

Master’s degree in nursing/healthcare leadership

Advanced leadership & management experience

Job description

Employer United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Lincoln County Hospital Town Lincoln Salary £94,356 - £108,814 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 08/10/2026 23:59

Dep Dir of Nursing,Clinical Capital Projects&W/force Transformation-8D

NHS AfC: Band 8d

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

• Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.
• Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.
• Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So,what is in it for you?

• Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

• Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
• Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
• Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
• Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
• Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
• NHS Pension:A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
• Bank working:The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there ismore.

• Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
• Health & Wellbeing including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
• Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
• Financial support and benefits i ncluding Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
• Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Job overview

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 Transformationand 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;
• neighbourhood models of care;
• patient safety and quality;
• clinical adjacencies and patient flow;
• workforce productivity;
• accessibility and health inequalities; and

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

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will:

• provide senior clinical leadership across the Group’s 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 escalation 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 inform future estate developments across LCHG.

Person specification

Qualifications

• 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