Nurse Staffing Manager

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Critical Care at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is provided across three Intensive Care Units at three hospital sites in West London (Charing Cross, Hammersmith, and St Mary's Hospital). We are seeking candidates with expert knowledge to lead, maintain, and develop our nursing rosters. This position involves working alongside a team of experienced Critical Care nurses and support staff who oversee our services and uphold a high standard of care.

The Critical Care Nurse Staffing Manager is a key team member and will produce monthly e-rosters for the Trust's Critical Care unit, following local processes and ensuring safe staffing and skill mix. They must publish compliant and efficient rosters at least 8 weeks in advance and manage roster and annual leave requests per Trust policy.

We seek candidates who can implement change effectively and motivate others while generating ideas. As a Roster Manager, you will have close contact with various key stakeholders both within and outside of our department.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest acute trusts in the country and, in partnership with Imperial College London, was one of the UK's first academic health science centres (AHSCs). The creation of the AHSC aims to advance patient care, clinical teaching, and scientific research and innovation.

This position requires motivation, enthusiasm, excellent communication skills, and demonstrated people management abilities.

Main duties of the job

The primary responsibilities are to develop monthly rosters for each unit based on specific requirements and ensure that these rosters are both efficient and compliant with established workforce Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Additionally, it involves overseeing staff annual planning to ensure that leave requests align with unit availability and that staff schedule their leave appropriately.

Collaboration with unit nursing leaders is essential in maintaining safe staffing levels for each shift, addressing any gaps with temporary staff as needed. There is also a need to work with nursing leads to model and implement effective nursing rosters, ensuring that worked hours, service needs, and training requirements are all met. Persuading, negotiating, and motivating nursing staff to accept necessary changes while incorporating their interests and ideas into service planning and developments is crucial. This role includes setting up roster accounts for new hires and ensuring their proper integration into the system. Supporting practice development nurses with staff induction timetables and rostering is another key function. Assisting unit managers in recording the competency compliance of temporary staff on the roster system is part of the job. Lastly, working closely with the nursing leadership team to provide administrative support for nursing recruitment requires close collaboration with Human Resources (HR), recruitment teams, and unit leads.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Degree or equivalent experience
• Advanced knowledge of rostering systems
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products
• Understanding of working regulations

Skills & Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in managing and creating e-rosters
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to analyse complex problems and develop solutions to address them
• Service development

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 577.3KB)
• Functional requirements (PDF, 136.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)