Workforce Practitioner

Overview

The Clinical Workforce Team has an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse who is passionate about clinical workforce to join as a Senior Workforce Practitioner.

This role will undertake project work as part of the Clinical Workforce team and provide support to the Lead for Safer Staffing to deliver training and guidance to clinical wards and departments across the organisation in Safecare and the Annual Acuity review process.

We have one 37.5 post available (job share would be considered) on a permanent basis.

• Undertake project work as part of the Clinical Workforce team and provide support to the Lead for Safer Staffing to deliver training and guidance to clinical wards and departments across the organisation in Safecare and the Annual Acuity review process.
• Design, implement and evaluate clinical workforce projects in collaboration with senior clinical staff, the workforce lead, ESNEFT recruitment and retention teams and the Faculty of Education.
• Provide training and guidance to clinical areas in relation to the recording and analysis of Safecare data to ensure appropriate decision making and the mitigation of risk in relation to skill mix.
• Support the Lead for Safer Staffing in the annual acuity process.
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with clinical areas and key corporate divisions to provide support and advice for ongoing projects and initiatives.
• Support activities to grow and develop the clinical workforce pipeline.
• Support delivery of trust-wide training for medical devices.
• Identify and develop resources to support retention of non‑medical clinical staff.
• Provide pastoral support to non‑UK trained non‑medical clinical professionals.
• Support the Safer Staffing agenda.
• Apply excellent interpersonal and problem‑solving skills and think creatively to collaborate with senior clinical staff and ESNEFT recruitment and retention teams.

• Working knowledge of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and NHS People Promise.
• Awareness of national and regional clinical workforce initiatives.
• Ability to work across sites and travel as required; base site may be Colchester.
• Experience in project design, implementation and evaluation within a clinical workforce context.

Support Safer Staffing agenda. We offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro‑rated) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of ESNEFT's core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole.

The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across East Suffolk and North Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes. We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.