Non Medical Staffing Lead

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust; Farnworth; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health care provider in the United Kingdom is looking for a dynamic leader to oversee non-medical safer staffing and workforce planning. This senior role will involve collaborating with senior leaders, driving improvements in staffing efficiency, and ensuring the right personnel are in place. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills and experience in workforce methodologies. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence patient care and safety standards within the organization.

Qualifications

• NMC or HCPC registration required.
• Proven leadership experience in health care settings.
• Ability to influence decisions at Board level.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate non-medical safer staffing.
• Drive improvements in roster efficiency and recruitment.
• Provide expert advice on workforce planning.

Skills

Strong communication and influencing skills

Experience in workforce planning

Knowledge of safer staffing methodologies

Proficiency in digital tools (e-rostering)

Job description

Overview

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This advert closes on Sunday 1 Feb 2026