We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Workforce Planning Lead, to join our Trust. There has never been a more exciting time to join the trust as we undergo a major cultural transformation with our staff and patients in the centre of it all. This role will effectively lead the delivery of all aspects of activities within Workforce planning and Information including Workforce Systems. With your expertise you will have the leadership skills to inspire the organisation to further embed workforce planning, systems and development into all our services and link to the wider Trust strategy and the People Plan.

You will lead the delivery of programmes, projects and plans to drive improvements in organisation effectiveness that delivers efficiencies for the Trust, focusing on workforce planning, establishment controls, data quality (ESR and other systems) and insights but also would also be expected to fully engage the wider systems planning approach and monitoring. This will include improvements to systems to improve data quality and decision-making, which is pivotal to the delivery of the Trust People strategy and NHS Workforce Strategies and its priorities.

Main duties of the job

The Workforce Planning Lead is responsible for the delivery of workforce information and analysis across UHB, including the ESR/information elements of large-scale workforce projects. The post holder will lead the production and delivery of meaningful Workforce analytics, comprehensive data insights for all aspects of the People strategy.

The post holder will lead the workforce planning process across UHB, supporting clinical and corporate leads in the development of their own plans and producing trust wide plans and analysis. You will actively support the Trust by developing responsive workforce system solutions and leading projects to influence workforce and service redesign.

The post holder will take the operational lead on a range of projects and initiatives internally and on behalf of UHB, including the UHB element of workforce planning established by the workforce sub group of the Birmingham and Solihull ICS and the UHB element of the annual workforce plan (NHSE).

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Master's Level in a relevant subject area, e.g., workforce planning, CIPD or business information or equivalent experience
• Evidence of relevant specialist training in workforce planning, workforce information and workforce systems
• Evidence of project and/or programme management training or equivalent work-based experience

Experience

Essential

• Experience of leading operational and strategic workforce planning in a large complex organisation
• Experience of short- and long-term scenario planning, presenting uncertainty and facilitating stakeholder use to make organisation and profession wide decisions or to inform decisions making across the system.
• Experience of delivering workforce planning models, forecasts and analysis using highly complex and contentious information and often where multiple scenarios are required due to uncertainty and to aid decision making
• Experience of presenting planning models, forecasts, and analysis to large groups of stakeholders from all levels throughout an organisation including up to Trust Board level and facilitating decision making where there are conflicting views or agreement is required to proceed with the next stage of work
• Experience of leading a team to deliver complex analytic models/statistical analysis and workforce information to a large complex organisation with a broad range of stakeholders
• Experience of designing, adapting and enhancing BI tools to manipulate and present workforce information
• Experience of designing and leading training delivering for workforce information and workforce planning tools
• Experience of translating national, regional and local policy and procedural information into workforce models, forecasts and analysis

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Heartlands Hospital

Bordesley Green E

Birmingham

West Midlands

B9 5SS

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