Workforce Planner job description job description

To co-ordinate strategic workforce planning, integral to business planning, supporting recruitment strategies, succession planning and commissioning of training.
To provide accurate and timely, benchmarked workforce information to the organisation to support decision-making and planning.
To manage HR Information Systems to maintain high quality data and deliver efficiencies and opportunities for workforce
redesign. To develop the rocesses/procedures and working practices to support the directorate achieve efficient, effective processes around appointments, variations and terminations. Working with the Workforce & OD team, managers, and other teams across the Trust to ensure HR
transactional processes meet the needs of all stakeholders and make best use of /introduce technological solutions.

4. To make best use of existing systems such as ESR, , Outlook, shared drives, and
other software packages to simplify, speed up and share transactional processing, related data and
to investigate opportunities for new systems, software to support the processes
clinical/managerial staff to bring about change

5. To research transactional processes in other NHS or other organisations to seek best practice and make use of already available systems.
6. To work with W&OD teams to ensure that new procedures/protocols are written up, clear and wellcommunicated, published, publicised.
7. To ensure that line managers, staff have access to advice and information
and training in regard to HR transactional policies and processes.
8. To ensure all users (managers and HR) are trained and supported to use the HR systems, working with the IT training team to provide up to date and relevant training and documentation.
9. To support the development and implementation of IT solutions across the directorate to achieve efficiencies and improve processes.
10. To ensure policies and operating procedures relating to the systems are relevant and up to date, and user friendly.

Attitude, Behaviour and Values

• Customer service focus
• Willing and able to take personal responsibility
• Demonstrates passion for excellence
• Seeks out and takes opportunities for improving the service offered
• Takes pride in their work and their team
• Flexible in their attitudes and behaviours to support team working and delivery of
objectives
• Respects, values and cares for others
• Supports learning and development of self and others
• Supports and promotes equality and diversity

Experience
At least 3 years experience of working in workforce planning or a related field.
Experience of data sources and information flows and their scope and limitations.
Experience in the use of tools and techniques in data collection, manipulation and analysis, including planning, forecasting and modelling and database development.

Knowledge
Knowledge of completing DH requirements for workforce returns.
Understanding and ability to use statistical techniques

Skills
Proven ability to produce, analyse and interpret complex sets of information to support the diagnosis of problems
Ability to present and explain complex information to non-technical staff in a user-friendly
way.
Strong numeracy skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
Ability to work effectively with and influence a range of clinical and managerial staff across the Trust
Ability to work as a part of a small team and independently as a self-starter

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