Band 8a Head of Temporary Staffing

The post holder will be responsible for maintaining and embedding the Trust’s key temporary staffing business goals, vision and values through the provision of a proactive and highly effective Temporary Staffing Service, which supports clinical and non-clinical service delivery and high-quality patient care Trust wide.

This includes the provision of senior clinical leadership and expertise to the Temporary Staffing Service, developing and implementing a range of clinical and non clinical/ management
interventions for clinical and non-clinical staff as outlined in the main duties of this post.

The post holder will also work closely and in partnership with the temporary staffing management team, the Temporary Staffing coordination teams , Human Resources, the Trust
Executive team, Divisional leads and external partners to ensure that the Temporary Staffing Service provides an effective and efficient temporary staffing workforce /service .

The post holder will support minimising and eliminating risk to the Trust by ensuring compliance with
internal and external rules and regulations impacting on temporary staffing delivery

Clinical Lead role

Recruitment for Temporary Staffing

Compliance and Assurance

Systems Management Information and Reporting

Temporary Staffing Leadership

BCHC have an exciting opportunity for a senior nurse to lead our Temporary Staffing Department!

Our Temporary Staffing team makes a vital contribution to all our services by working closely with our clinical staff and managers to ensure that staffing gaps are covered making this a busy and vibrant team. The Head of Temporary Staffing is a key role within the HR management team and across the Trust as a whole, as well as working with external partners across Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB). This is the ideal opportunity for a senior nurse with the right skills and experience to make a real difference.

Working as part of a dynamic team, you will lead the team to support with the delivery of an efficient customer focused and clinically effective service, working in close partnership with our Clinical Divisions. You will have core responsibility for ensuring the delivery of a proactive and effective customer friendly service to demanding volumes and key performance indicators as well as supporting our temporary workforce.

This will involve collaboration and partnership with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure retention initiatives are developed and implemented. To be successful you will need to be able to demonstrate that you have temporary staffing knowledge and the skills to lead, set direction and motivate a busy team, as well as a good knowledge of general HR compliance

Main Duties are:
To act as a source of advanced clinical expertise, knowledge and experience relating to the management of temporary workers.

Provide strong and visible senior clinical input and general leadership to the team,ensuring that the Trust’s values and behaviours are embedded in Temporary Staffing policies and Standard Operating Procedures and systems for temporary staff in line with national, professional and Trust policies;

Provide clinical support and clinical supervision to clinical management team.

Provide effective clinical and professional leadership to clinical bank workers including nurses, therapists and non-qualified clinical workers and provide clinical supervision and
revalidation support as required to support clinical temporary workers, liaising with Divisional clinical leads as appropriate and necessary.

Identify, report and manage clinical risks associated with the bank and overview of nonclinical complaints and incidents which are managed by the Operations Manager/Systems and Compliance Manager for their respective areas of responsibility Overall responsibility for ensuring that all clinical complaints are managed in a timely manner and in accordance with Trust processes and procedures and that the Temporary Staffing clinical support roles manage these effectively, escalating where appropriate.

Ensure that clinical risks are evaluated and inputted on to the risk register.