Associate Chief Nurse - Workforce and Education

Job overview

Associate Chief Nurse – Workforce and Education

Department: Corporate Nursing

Band 8D  £88,168 - £101,677 Per annum

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working

Are you an exceptional registered nurse looking for a fantastic opportunity? Would you like to join MKUH's Nursing, Midwifery and Professions team as Associate Chief Nurse for Workforce and Education? This is a new role will be a pivotal part of our Senior Nursing Leadership team and will ensure #TeamMKUH has a safe, effective and evidence-based approach to nursing and midwifery practice.

Your existing clinical, leadership and operational experience is imperative to ensure expert knowledge and professional judgement is applied to, and underpins, our approach to safe staffing, workforce planning and clinical education.

If you’re passionate about workforce and education, and those seeking development, with an aspiration to progress to a Deputy Chief Nurse role, this is the role for you.

'We care We communicate We collaborate We contribute'

Interview 8th May 2025

Main duties of the job

You will work closely and in collaboration with the Chief Nurse, Senior Nursing Team, Senior People Team and Education Leads taking the strategic lead for the Nursing and Midwifery workforce strategies and plans leading and supporting on themes within the Nursing and Midwifery Strategy and Quality Improvement initiatives to promote innovation and achieve operational excellence.

In collaboration with key stake holders in the Trust, Integrated Care System (ICS) and the wider clinical professions community, you will work to ensure workforce and education planning supports safe staffing and service redesign to align with our Clinical Strategy. You will also work across the ICS creating sustainable and innovative workforce models, influencing the strategic direction locally and beyond.

Through strategic professional leadership and modelling, you will support nursing and other staff to transform services, improve patient care, forward the delivery of the Trust’s objectives and foster the creation of an open, diverse and inclusive culture that is seen to listen to and reflect the values and diversity of #TeamMKUH.

You will demonstrably support, and act on behalf of, the Chief Nurse in the delivery of the corporate and professional agenda, join the operational tactical on-call rota as the out-of-hours on call manager supporting the operational management of the Trust and report to the strategic on-call (executive on-call).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Workforce Development

• Be the strategic lead, responsible for the on-going development and delivery of the Trust Nursing Workforce Strategy, working in collaboration with the People team on joint delivery and ownership of objectives.
• Champion new roles, develop new ways of working and implement skill mix changes to secure sustainable service delivery.
• Work directly with the Chief Nurse and the wider senior nursing team to ensure the nursing resource is utilised efficiently and effectively to meet the clinical and non-clinical priorities.

Education and Development

• Work closely with key leads from Human Resources to ensure good communication and joint working wherever possible.
• Be the strategic lead for the commissioning, development and governance of Nursing and Allied Health Professional education and training programmes.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, learning, coaching, supporting and enhancing individual learning.

Leadership and Management

• Represent the Chief Nurse within the ICS and national meetings / conferences, as appropriate and required.
• Represent nursing and articulate the nursing view in relevant situations

Professional

• Maintain awareness of current professional and clinical practice issues to ensure National policy is accurately reflected in practice.
• Case manage high-level disciplinary or grievance investigations and serious incidents.
• Be the Trust point of contact for both NMC and HCPC referrals. Ensure are well informed and up to date in matters in relation to the NMC Code of Practice and maintain their own personal professional portfolio.

Research and Effectiveness

• Develop approaches for the utilisation of best practice and research evidence, which supports nursing and improves patient experience.
• Ensure relevant nursing policies, protocols and procedures are up to date and based on the best available evidence.

Please refer to the Job Description for further details

We believe success lies in the diversity of our employees and are committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion. We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us.

MKUH is committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and as such we offer a range of flexible working practices.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

MKUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of MKUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that information from your application will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system.  Your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS.   This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Upon commencing  employment  with  the  Trust,  all  employees  (except Medical & Dental Staff on national terms and conditions) are  subject  to  a probationary period lasting  a  period  of  six  months  with  an  option  to extend  for  a  further  six  months  to  a total of  12 months.