Non Medical Staffing Lead

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust; Farnworth; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Non-Medical Safe Staffing Lead to enhance patient safety through effective workforce planning. The role requires strong leadership and communication skills, along with experience in electronic rostering and staffing methodologies. This position is pivotal in collaborating with senior management to ensure optimal staffing across clinical divisions. Ideal candidates will possess a Clinical Registration and a passion for improving healthcare delivery within the organization.

Qualifications

• NMC or HCPC registration required.
• Experience in electronic rostering systems.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate staffing across clinical divisions.
• Advise on workforce planning and staffing methodologies.
• Generate Trust Safe Staffing reports for the Board.

Skills

Digital literacy

Leadership

Communication skills

Project management

Education

Professional Clinical Registration (NMC, HCPC)

Safer Staffing Fellow

Tools

Electronic rostering systems

Job description

Are you a NMC or HCPC registrant looking for a fresh challenge in 2026?Are you passionate about making a difference in patient safety and workforce planning?If you're motivated, enthusiastic, and ready to influence change, this is the role for you!

About the Role

In this senior leadership position, you'll:

• Work closely with Divisional Nurse Directors and Corporate senior leaders, including the Deputy Chief Nurse and Chief Nursing Officer.
• Lead and coordinate non-medical safer staffing across all clinical divisions.
• Drive improvements in roster efficiency, recruitment, and retention strategies.
• Provide expert advice on non-medical safer staffing and workforce planning, influencing decisions at Board level.
• Collaborate with Workforce Deployment and Business Intelligence teams to ensure the right staff, with the right skills, are in the right place at the right time.
• Represent the organisation at regional and national forums.

What We're Looking For

• A dynamic leader with a passion for patient safety and workforce optimisation.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Experience in workforce planning, safer staffing methodologies, and digital tools such as e-rostering.

Interested?

If you're ready to make a real impact on patient safety and staff experience, then we'd love to hear from you.We recommend that interested parties contact Rebecca Bradley for an informal conversation before applying.

Main duties of the job

Main duties and responsibilities

Utilise expert knowledge to support and monitor safe staffing across clinical divisions, ensuring robust clinical governance systems are in place.

Provide visible leadership, support, and direction to clinical teams and managers regarding the safe staffing agenda.

Act as a role model, promoting high standards of safe and effective care based on best evidence.

Work with the Workforce Deployment team and Business Intelligence to ensure meaningful use of staffing metrics.

Lead the introduction staffing models within the Trust.

Advise Associate Directors of Nursing on staffing during exceptional circumstances.

Promote effective use of temporary staffing within agreed financial parameters.

Maintain up-to-date knowledge of national staffing and workforce directives.

Prepare presentations and reports for the Trust Committees and Board as required.

Represent the organization at regional and national Safe Staffing forums, presenting and feeding back information on behalf of the Trust.

Champion a safeguarding culture across the Trust.

Update policies and procedures regarding safe staffing.

Ensure compliance with Safe Nursing Care Tool licenses.

Contribute to internal and external recruitment events with the Head of Resourcing, promoting safe staffing.

About us

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated provider of acute, intermediate and community health care serving the population of Bolton. This provides us with an opportunity for our services to work closely with our partners in primary care and the local authority to ensure a seamless service for our patients.

Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of Care and are guided by our trust Values. We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence for maternity, neonatal and care for children, and that it has been rated as Good by the Quality Care Commission (CQC). This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is also supported by our Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice.

Job responsibilities

The Non-Medical Safe Staffing Lead will play a crucial role in supporting clinical divisions to maximise non-medical staffing provision across the organisation. This involves leading and coordinating non-medical skill mix establishment reviews, refining these processes in line with national guidance, and adopting new methodologies for determining staffing requirements.

In addition, they will generate ideas and implement work streams to increase staff roster efficiency and improve recruitment and retention of non-medical staff.

The postholder will provide senior professional advice and guidance on all aspects of the Safe Staffing agenda to the Deputy Chief Nurse, Chief Nursing Officer and Executive Leadership Team, working closely with the Deputy Chief Nurse, Divisional Nurse Directors, and Senior Leadership teams.

As the lead for non- medical safe staffing, the postholder will collaborate with the Workforce Deployment team to ensure the right staff, with the right skills, are in the right place at the right time.

Responsibilities also include generating Bi-Annual Trust Safe Staffing reports for the Board of Directors, and managing the collection, use, and interpretation of data related to safe staffing across inpatient and community services. The postholder will provide professional and visible senior leadership across the trust, ensuring consistent implementation of safe staffing practices across the Directorates.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional Clinical Registration (NMC,HCPC)
• Safer Staffing Fellow

Experience

• Experience of electronic rostering systems, use of safe care
• Experience of utilizing digital technologies to support safer staffing
• Excellent project management skills, able to plan, deliver to timescales, communicate, manage expectations, report progress plans

Skills

• Demonstrate substantial level of digital literacy, with ability to be proficient in the use of word processing, presentation and spreadsheet software
• Able to obtain and evaluate information to aid decision making
• Ability to critically appraise data and business plans, to determine impact and consequences

Knowledge

• Specialist knowledge in safe staffing solutions and / or rostering

Other

• Work to agreed deadlines

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.