Band 8a Integrated Care System Workforce Planning Lead

This is an exciting new post, created to support the development of the future health and care workforce for Our Somerset Integrated Care System.

Somerset has gained regional and national recognition for our innovative and collaborative approaches to attracting and developing our system workforce. Based within the ICS People team at NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board, you will help us drive forward our work programme. You will support our visionary Somerset 2035 approach to long-term workforce planning, development and transformation across all sectors of our health and care system, supporting the delivery of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and the Somerset Health and Care Strategy. You will also support our core NHS operational planning and assurance processes.

This post would be very suitable for someone with interest and experience in workforce development who is looking to progress to a strategic system-level role. You will be highly effective at connecting and building relationships with stakeholders at all levels and supporting delivery of work programmes. You will already have some experience and expertise in workforce transformation, and we will support you to develop further your strategic workforce planning and development skills., The main responsibilities of this post are:
To provide strategic workforce planning leadership and support to all Integrated Care System partner organisations To provide project support and leadership to the implementation of the Somerset Workforce 2035 Scenario Planning programme To support the development of workstreams underpinning the delivery of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan for Somerset, particular in relation to education planning and new ways of working To lead the coordination and development of integrated operational workforce planning requirements for Somerset ICS.

To support the development of system workforce integrated performance reporting for Somerset ICB working with local and regional workforce intelligence teams, We offer flexible working from your first day of employment and we also have an agile approach to home / office-based working. Please note however, that you will be required to work from our HQ, Wynford House in Yeovil for 2/3 days per week and that elements of the role may require you to travel to other locations across Somerset, to attend in-person meetings and meet the needs of the service. Please consider this before applying.

NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board (ICB), known as NHS Somerset is the statutory NHS organisation responsible for implementing a health and care strategy developed by the Integrated Care Partnership.

NHS Somerset consists of approx. 300 staff, across 8 directorates, with multiple teams within each directorate.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and welcome applications from underrepresented groups. When recruiting, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve.

Job Share and Secondment opportunities will be considered. If you are seeking an internal or external secondment, please seek advice from your HR teamandyou must also obtain your current line manager's permission to be released on secondment before applying, to avoid disappointment.

We also offer an excellent pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.