18th April 2024
Dianna Hollins – Managing Consultant and TU Workforce Lead
Dianna has recently taken on the role of our Workforce Offer Lead. Here, Dianna Introduces the TU workforce offer and talks about the importance of workforce in the work that we carry out for our clients.
Workforce Planning
“Effective system-level delivery is dependent on having sufficient capacity and technical capability for workforce planning at every level in the service”. NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, June 2023
Over the last 5 years we have been working with a range of health and care clients to enhance their capacity and capability to deliver effective workforce plans which respond to the changing needs of our population alongside advancements in technology and ways of working. It is not just about the WTE (Whole Time Equivalent) number but about how workforce transformation can support the train, retain and reform priority areas.
Having the right skills and experience
- The TU can provide a bespoke team to meet your skills requirements, with a specialist team of workforce, HR, analysts, clinical, engagement and transformation consultants to draw upon
- We can adapt our approach and project team dependent on the purpose and scope of your workforce plan
- Our workforce planning approach allows the future workforce to be more effectively planned by using a combination of engagement, analytics and workforce / OD techniques
- Our analytics capability ensures population health, current demand and workforce profile is translated into future workforce requirements
- Our OD experience, including HEE Star trained practitioners, allows us to explore not just the future WTE but also how we respond to the need to train, retain and reform
Our experience
Here at the TU, we have supported a range of workforce planning projects:
- An ICS wide musculoskeletal (MSK) workforce plan to enable a large scale MSK transformation programme
- An Integrated Workforce Plan for Primary Care Networks in response to the Additional Roles Reimbursement scheme (ARRS)
- A Cancer Alliance workforce plan for Speech and Language Therapists working in Head and Neck Cancer
- A screening programme workforce plan
- Workforce analytics to support a trust 5-year workforce plan, including workforce baseline profile and future workforce modelling
- Development of a workforce planning guide for Local Government
- Development and delivery of a workforce planning training course
How we can help you
If you are currently embarking on your latest workforce plan and are lacking the capacity or expertise to deliver all or part of the process, then we would be happy to talk to you to explore your needs and put together a proposal for how we could help. Please get in touch with Dianna via our contact page.