Safer Staffing Lead Nurse

As an expert practitioner provide leadership and guidance on improving all aspects of the Safe Staffing agenda, creating an infrastructure that enables services to ensure that the right staff, with the right skills, are in the right place, at the right time. By working collaboratively across all inpatients areas be responsible for ensuring Oxleas is meeting the regulatory standards in line with 'Developing workforce safeguards' (2018), by developing and supporting services to implement effective governance and best practice for staff deployment and workforce planning Provide strategic professional and visible senior nursing leadership across the trust, ensuring appropriate advice regarding Safer Staffing is provided to ensure consistency of implementation across the Operational Service Directorates Support the implementation of safe rostering practices across Oxleas bedded services., The post-holder will have specialist knowledge and function as an expert professional leader within Safer Staffing, effectively contributing to the Trust agenda.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care