About this role
Job summary
Help shape a safe, responsive and sustainable temporary workforce across Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and influential Temporary Staffing Advisor to join our People Operations team covering maternity leave for 12 months. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in improving how we plan, deploy and support our temporary workforce, helping clinical services access the right people at the right time while maintaining safe staffing, quality and value for money.
Working closely with managers, clinical leads, workforce colleagues and external partners, you will use data, insight and relationship-building skills to support workforce planning, service improvement and cost-effective temporary staffing solutions. You will help develop smarter processes, improve reporting and contribute to projects that strengthen workforce resilience across the Trust.
This role will suit someone who is organised, analytical and confident working with spreadsheets and a wide range of stakeholders. You will bring experience of temporary staffing and resourcing or workforce planning in a complex environment, alongside the ability to influence change, solve problems and present information clearly.If you are motivated by making services better, supporting safe patient care and working collaboratively across the NHS, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Work collaboratively with managers and HR colleagues to support the development of workforce plans that reflect demand and supply, and build temporary staffing plans thatensure effective availability of temporary staffing for the Trust. This is to be done within the context of Trust productivity and efficiency goals. You will not line manage staff directly, you will however be required to influence a broad range of people to deliver the temporary workforce agenda effectively. You will support the Trust in the control of temporary workforce costs, maximising safe staffing, and financial opportunities wherever possible to achieve financial savings. Work with colleagues to ensure data is available, accurate and timely and supports business needs, enabling decision making, and seek to improve data quality and management information. Work with the Temporary Staffing team to support continual service improvement, monitoring, measuring, reporting and taking appropriate action in regard to temporary staffing. Keep informed of the wider NHS agenda, changes in legislation, best practice and new developments that are applicable to temporary staffing, cascading to colleagues, Trust Managers and other stakeholders as appropriate.
About us
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Environmental sustainabilityClimate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.
Job description Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person Specification
Education/ qualifications Essential
Degree level in Management/Business/Financial Management or demonstrable equivalent experience. Further management experience/training to post graduate diploma level or equivalent CIPD qualified
Desirable
Evidence of recent relevant continuous professional development
Experience Essential
Significant experience of working in temporary staffing within complex or large organisations. Experience delivering change or improvement in a customer service, high-volume temporary staffing environment. Developing complex spreadsheets and presenting data in a simple and understandable way Demonstrable success achieving targets Significant experience managing service development. Experience delivering initiatives within budgetary constraints. Experience implementing organisational and service change.
Desirable
Previous experience of working in temporary staffing in the NHS Team Management Experience of managing complaints and concerns
Skills/knowledge/ abilities Essential
Leadership qualities, ability to motivate teams and individuals. Ability to plan and deliver projects, identify and address issues that may derail projects Exceptional verbal and written communication; able to communicate clearly and effectively on a range of highly complex staffing issues and engaging with stakeholders at all levels. Good presentation skills; able to communicate, contentious, sensitive and highly complex information to large groups. Able to think and plan, tactically and creatively and to prioritise in the face of competing demands. Able to interpret, integrate and apply employment legislation across a range of key temporary staffing projects and initiatives. Analytical skills; able to assess and understand data to identify and remedy service issues. Exceptional excel skills, able to construct formulas, link spreadsheets. Ability to work under pressure and prioritise own work as well as the work of others. Excellent organisational and prioritising skills Ability to present complex information in a way that is understood, varying presentation styles and techniques as appropriate Expert knowledge of temporary workforce agenda locally and nationally
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.
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Employer details Employer name Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Address Charing Cross Hospital
London
W6 8RF
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)