Job vacancy: Head of Workforce Transformation & Planning, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Ascot

Job summary

Main area

Human Resources

Grade

Band 8b

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time
Flexible working
Home or remote working

37.5 hours per week

Job ref

151-ALG47

Employer: Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Heatherwood Hospital
Town: Ascot
Salary: £60,983 - £70,536 per annum pro rata incl HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 29/07/2024 23:59

Head of Workforce Transformation & Planning

Band 8b

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Lead the Trust’s approach to strategic workforce planning, ensuring effective and high-quality support is provided to senior colleagues across the people directorate to support the annual business planning process.
Support the development and implementation of a workforce planning strategy, in line with the annual business planning process, to ensure that the organisation has an appropriately skilled and experienced workforce at all levels
Lead on development of complex and multifaceted workforce planning submissions for Strategic Outline Cases, Outline Business Cases, and Full Business Cases for significant workforce and service transformation projects (such as the New Hospital Programme), working to programme timeframes, and representing the workforce planning function on strategic delivery groups.
Oversee workforce modelling for service redesign work and ensure that workforce plans align to the strategic aims and direction of the Trust and its people, finance, and operational service delivery strategies, as well as local and national drivers for change.
Work collaboratively with key stakeholders (HR, finance, education, service managers and external organisations) as part of the workforce planning process; working with HR Business Partners to support managers with modelling the current and future workforce; and providing training for managers on the workforce planning process.
Recognise where traditional workforce planning methodologies and professional education approaches may not address the significant challenges facing future health care, and so incorporate best practice thinking on workforce planning and needs-based, interprofessional workforce planning.
Work closely with the Head of People Digital & Analytics to ensure the Trust has access to high quality workforce data and reporting to support workforce planning, monitoring and development of services.
Develop the capacity and capability of HR colleagues and senior managers to access and use information to inform workforce planning and transformation, including modelling techniques and tools, providing internal consultancy support and best practice, and developing and providing training as required.
Responsible for all aspects of line management for direct reports within the workforce planning function, and manage multidisciplinary programme and project teams, operating in a matrix management structure requiring autonomy of decision making through collaboration with multiple stakeholders.
Accountable for all aspects of workforce planning and will be the Trust’s representative at local and regional workforce-related project meetings and attend relevant groups to develop, communicate and implement workforce plans.

Your week will be balanced between collaborating in person with people across our different Trust locations and the flexibility to work remotely. We are also happy to talk about different flexible working options for this role, including part-time hours.

For a more detailed list of responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Masters degree or equivalent level of experience and academic standard in an HR related subject
CIPD qualified/accredited or equivalent level of experience
PRINCE2 / MSP or equivalent project / programme management qualification
Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development

Desirable criteria

Healthcare Leadership qualification
Strategic Workforce Planning qualification
Lean training/experience

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working at a senior level within a workforce, training, or education function within a complex organisation
Management experience, including managing project / matrix teams
Experience of workforce planning processes and modelling techniques
Experience of involvement in designing and delivering workforce transformation
Experience of capturing, analysing and documenting business requirements
Experience in the production of complex statistical and narrative reports, and the ability to write reports and briefings at Board level standard

Desirable criteria

Experience of working with external networks
Budgetary management experience

Skills & Knowlege

Essential criteria

Highly developed specialist knowledge of workforce planning and its practical application across a variety of settings
Knowledge and understanding of complex workforce modelling and forecasting trends and frameworks
Understanding of principles, methods, techniques and tools for effective project management and risk management

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.