Job summary
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is strengthening how we support strategic workforce planning across NHS Wales--bringing together workforce intelligence, scenario planning and workforce modelling to help leaders make decisions that will shape services for the next decade.
The Strategic Workforce Planning Manager - People Analyst is a new, national role contributing to shaping strategic workforce planning across HEIW and the wider NHS Wales system. The post holder will provide authoritative workforce planning insight, advice and leadership to support national priorities, shaping data insight led workforce planning and enabling senior leaders to understand workforce risk, opportunity and future supply and to take informed, sustainable decisions on workforce shape, skills and capacity.
Main duties of the job
Operating at a strategic level, the post holder will lead the application of advanced strategic workforce planning approaches, including scenario planning and horizon scanning to inform long-term system planning. This will include exploring a range of plausible future scenarios arising from service transformation, policy change, labour market conditions, population need and education pipeline developments, and translating these into clear strategic options and recommendations.
As Strategic Workforce Planning Manager - People Analyst, you will play a key role in the continued evolution of the Strategic Workforce Planning Team as HEIW's strategic workforce intelligence function, providing leadership, professional credibility and thought leadership in workforce planning. You will lead the interpretation and application of advanced workforce planning insight - turning complex analysis into options, recommendations and compelling narratives. This will also include building workforce planning capability across the people profession and the wider system, championing evidence- based decision making, and strengthening NHS Wales's ability to anticipate and respond to future workforce challenges at pace and scale.
About us
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers. Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.
HEIW's is committed to developing an internal culture of choice. Our Values reflect our thoughts, feelings and beliefs in how we will, and will not, behave and treat others:
- Respect for All in every contact we have with others,
- Ideas that Improve: Harnessing creativity and continuously innovating, evaluating and improving,
- Together as a Team: Working with colleagues across NHS Wales and with partner organisations.
HEIW received the HPMA Award for Employee Engagement in 2019.
What you can expect:
- a corporate induction and 90 day Welcome itinerary,
- compassionate leadership,
- a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,
- the opportunity to impact upon health and social care services and the lives and wellbeing of the people of Wales.
Many of our colleagues and stakeholders have commented on the buzz and atmosphere we create by working together as "One HEIW Team". Do you want to join that team?
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level qualification in workforce/people management plus demonstrable experience in a workforce role.
- Evidence of recent and relevant continuing professional development.
Desirable
- PG Cert in Strategic Workforce Planning.
- CIPD registration.
- Qualification in People Analytics or demonstrable experience in developing effective people analytics.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working within a workforce role.
- Experience of strategic workforce planning.
- Experience of analysing workforce datasets and producing actionable insight for decision-makers.
- Experience of developing, supporting or utilising workforce data, forecasting and/or scenario analysis (workforce, service, capacity, demand/supply) to workforce plan or influence workforce transformation.
- Experience of leading and implementing change at an organisational or national level.
- Experience of working with staff at senior and national levels and of developing constructive relationships working across organisational boundaries.
Skills
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of workforce metrics and an understanding of the challenges with people data.
- High level analytical abilities: able to assimilate and analyse information quickly, identifying issues, priorities and potential solutions.
- Able to visualise and present understandable data and insight in ways that effectively influence others.
- Advanced digital skills to apply innovative, data-driven approaches to complex workforce planning challenges, enabling the development of forward-looking and impactful workforce solutions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level qualification in workforce/people management plus demonstrable experience in a workforce role.
- Evidence of recent and relevant continuing professional development.
Desirable
- PG Cert in Strategic Workforce Planning.
- CIPD registration.
- Qualification in People Analytics or demonstrable experience in developing effective people analytics.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working within a workforce role.
- Experience of strategic workforce planning.
- Experience of analysing workforce datasets and producing actionable insight for decision-makers.
- Experience of developing, supporting or utilising workforce data, forecasting and/or scenario analysis (workforce, service, capacity, demand/supply) to workforce plan or influence workforce transformation.
- Experience of leading and implementing change at an organisational or national level.
- Experience of working with staff at senior and national levels and of developing constructive relationships working across organisational boundaries.
Skills
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of workforce metrics and an understanding of the challenges with people data.
- High level analytical abilities: able to assimilate and analyse information quickly, identifying issues, priorities and potential solutions.
- Able to visualise and present understandable data and insight in ways that effectively influence others.
- Advanced digital skills to apply innovative, data-driven approaches to complex workforce planning challenges, enabling the development of forward-looking and impactful workforce solutions.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
