Workforce Planning Lead

Description:

We are working with a West Midlands NHS Trust to recruit an experienced Workforce Planning specialist, to join them on a fixed term contract.  The post holder will provide workforce planning expertise and facilitate the development of integrated workforce planning at a strategic level.

Main responsibilities:

Providing expert subject matter advice in relation to health and care operational level workforce planning;
Working with clinical teams and service providers in the most critical pathways to determine current workforce needs and the skills required to deliver these;
Supporting managers in building their baseline workforce data, helping to form a clear understanding of vacancies and potential areas of growth or decline over the next 12 months;
Working with clinical teams to consider how to fulfil these needs, either through recruitment, development of existing skills or coming up with new ways of working or new roles;
Working with HR, finance, planning teams across the Trust and HEE to commission what is needed to deal with immediate workforce pressures;
Leading the development, production and analysis of regular workforce information and reports and provide meaningful trends and analysis available for the board;
Proactively identifying risks and issues, displaying a high degree of creative problem solving to mitigate.
Key Skills/Experience:

Experience within NHS organisations;
Knowledge of workforce development to include workforce transformation approaches;
Strong analytical skills;
Strong data Microsoft, excel, database and ability to use NHS ESR system.
If you are interested in this post, please send a copy of your updated CV to Emma Peel on (url removed)