Head of Health Rostering and Safer Staffing

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Huddersfield seeks a dynamic leader to enhance safer staffing through e-rostering. The role involves strategic oversight, team management, and advising on digital systems to optimize resources and improve patient safety. Candidates should have leadership experience in healthcare, with strong e-rostering knowledge. This position is pivotal in maintaining high standards of care and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams in a healthcare environment.
• Knowledge of e-rostering and associated digital systems.
• Ability to advise on staffing and resource optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic development of E-rostering for staffing governance.
• Oversee delivery of e-rostering team objectives.
• Advise the Safer Staffing Steering Group on system capabilities.
• Implement national guidance on workforce safeguards.
• Train staff on the Safer Nursing Care Tool.
• Support the Head Nurse with establishment reviews.

Skills

Leadership in healthcare

E-rostering knowledge

Strong communication

Clinical experience

Job description

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and innovative leader to influence safer staffing through use of e-rostering capability and associated digital systems. Clinical experience in a healthcare setting would be an advantage.

With patient safety and quality at the heart of all decision making, you will use extensive knowledge of rostering in healthcare to lead an already award-winning team. You will influence strategic developments and advise the Safer Staffing Steering Group on the ability of digital rostering and associated systems to optimise resources through proactive roster management, daily reviews and responses, and retrospective analysis to identify opportunities for improvements.

The Post Holder Will

• Lead on the strategic development of E-rostering (electronic rostering) as an instrument to strengthen safer staffing governance for Nursing, Midwifery and AHP colleagues, maintaining and acting as a contact for guidance and support on all aspects of E-rostering, including, but not limited to, e-job-planning for relevant staff.
• Have responsibility for the delivery of the e-rostering team objectives and oversee quality control.
• Work directly with the senior corporate nursing team to deliver on key objectives determined through the Safer Staffing Steering Group and advising the group on system capability and opportunities.
• Lead on compliance and implementation of the national guidance and recommendations from NHSE workforce safeguards and NQB guidance.
• Lead on the deployment of the Safer Nursing Care Tool (SNCT) through training and quality assessment.
• Support operational implementation of workforce safeguards, including the optimisation of the daily review process.
• Support the Head Nurse for Workforce and Education and the Divisional Associate Nurse Directors with bi/annual establishment reviews.
• Support and advise Heads of Nursing and Matrons with regard to staffing during exceptional circumstances.

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Janet Youd Job title: Head Nurse for Workforce and Education Email address: [e-mail]