Dep Dir of Nursing,Clinical Capital Projects&W/force Transformation-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 is more.

• 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 including 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 Transformation and 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.

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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;
• workforce sustainability;
• neighbourhood models of care;
• acute service transformation;
• patient safety and quality;
• clinical adjacencies and patient flow;
• digital transformation;
• workforce productivity;
• accessibility and health inequalities; and
• long-term service sustainability.

You will provide a strong clinical voice into estate prioritisation and capital planning, helping the organisation understand not only what we need to build, but how 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 escalate 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 informs future estate developments across LCHG.

ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.

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Please note that we do not accept CVs.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” if the below applies to you.

You are:

• A Service Leaver
• A Veteran
• A Military Reserve
• A Cadet Force Adult Volunteer
• Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces

All new employees will be subject to a charge for the DBS check that is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by ULTH and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a 3 month period.

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Please note, for applicants with previous NHS service: If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.