Resourcing Business Partner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Leading the site based Resourcing and Deployment Function Managing the designated team ensuring consistency of approach and seamless servicedelivery across the site and at Trust level with other site counterparts and transactionalPOD teams. To lead on development and implementation of agreed resourcing and deploymentstrategies/plans that reflect business needs, identify opportunities for growth and financialsustainability. Lead the delivery and development of recruitment, resourcing, and data intelligencesolutions to enable the site to respond to its short and long term resourcing needs. This willinclude providing specialist advice across all levels and managing particularly complexrecruitment and resourcing issues. To work closely with other teams such as Education, Learning and Development, OD andHR Business teams to develop and support a culture of continuous improvement. To act as the strategic lead for temporary workforce for site and in conjunction with peersrepresent the trust at local, regional and national meetings in this area. Provide leadership and management of the site based resourcing and deployment team,ensuring high quality work and advice. Ensure that the team develop close working relationships with clinical divisions and withwider clinical leadership and management to support the divisional business and widerTrust agendas and strategies.Policy and Service Development Interpreting new information/instructions internally or externally (ie, new directives fromNHS England) that relate to Resourcing and Deployment teams practices; recommend howthey should be implemented, work with stakeholders to gain shared understanding andagreement, take actions and deliver required outcomes To support the central transactional services teams in the ongoing programme ofresourcing and deployment policy development and review that ensures completion andsign off to allow timely implementation. This will include supporting the development of trustlevel policy and being responsible for implementation of policy related to own area of work. Working in conjunction with systems leads to ensure that the systems in use in sites (e.g eroster, ESR, Trac) are embedded and the functionality of them are optimised and that theinformation they provide is relevant, accurate and provides insight for users. Lead the site based management of medical workforce planning i.e. co-ordination of jobplanning cycle in conjunction with site medical director and reviewing rosters to ensure theymeet service needs. Accountable for providing site workforce intelligence and analysis, highlighting themes andtrends, ensuring that lessons are learned, changes proposed and makingrecommendations for service improvement. This will be with support from the centralworkforce teams. To support new ways of working and improvement of service in designated areas ofresponsibility ensuring that benefits realisation is tracked to be able to add value for money.Workforce Assurance, Governance & Compliance To work with transactional POD teams to maintain and develop performance andgovernance monitoring arrangements for sites in relation to outsourced contracts (eg,payroll). Develop and maintain working practices in support of the Trusts workforce governance,compliance, audit and risk management agenda. This includes contributing to thedevelopment of the POD Directorates business continuity plan. Preparation of identified elements for the site People and OD Committee and HospitalManagement Board. Ensure all information processed meets the requirements of the GDPR and that staffunderstand their responsibilities for this. To maintain effective processes to record and monitor governance, risk and incidentinformation. Working with the Transactional POD team to provide assurance on the quality ofrecruitment and selection activity for the site and take action to ensure compliance withTrust procedure and legislation. Proactively support divisions as necessary to ensure the achievement of compliance of themedical workforce across a range of statutory and mandatory requirements.Workforce intelligence Work with the Transactional POD team to inform the improvement and updating of the siteand divisional workforce dashboards. Develop statistical reports from existing data sets for use in planning and report writing Use data/statistics/intelligence from multiple sources to determine a course of action orintervention. To produce business plans, and service development within resourcing and deployment,where appropriate, leading on specific service plans. To ensure that key workforce indicators for staff that report to this post are met. Provide expert advice in the development and monitoring of rotas that are compliant withEWTD, national contracts and meet the service needs of the Trust. Work with the Deputy Medical Director and Director of Medical Education and provideleadership ensuring that the junior doctor workforce is used productively and have a highquality training experience. Analyse and recommend ways to improve key performance indicators for the medicalworkforce across a range of metrics.Planning Lead the Development of the site workforce plan in conjunction with the Trust group leadfor workforce planning in the central POD team, financial and operational colleagues. Interpret relevant national directives and provide advice in relation to the strategic directionof the organisation for the resourcing and deployment agenda. Lead on the implementation of plans and projects specific to the teams Lead on the implementation of resourcing and deployment programmes throughcollaborative and proactive engagement with stakeholder including staff representatives tomitigate risks to plans. Provide leadership in Medical productivity and cost improvement projects. Provide high quality support and advice to managers and clinical leaders in all aspects ofmedical productivity, including, for example, the effective use of job planning, flexibleworking, and locums. Identify ways of reducing the Trusts reliance on external locums and Agency doctors bydeveloping short and long term Trust-wide plans to achieve this. Develop medical workforce plans, actively supporting the development of alternativeservice delivery and medical workforce models aligned to the Trust workforce strategy.Resourcing Work closely with site senior managers to develop targeted resourcing strategies. Work with the recruitment team to develop recruitment marketing approaches for the sitethrough various channels, including job boards, social media, professional networks, andopen days. Use data and analytics to track recruitment metrics, evaluate the effectiveness ofrecruitment strategies, and make data-driven recommendations for improvement. Ensure that appropriate medical recruitment strategies are developed and that substantiveand temporary posts are filled efficiently and cost-effectively. Following agreement with Divisions, lead specialist medical recruitment projects targeted atrecruitment hotspots in the Trust. Put forward recruitment proposals on advertisingcampaigns for both UK and overseas initiatives for hotspot medical and dental areas

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters degree (MBA, MA, MSc) or equivalent experience in a business or HR discipline

• Membership of CIPD
• Project Management Qualification

Experience

• Experience of leading and managing complex projects and actively contributing to the achievement of strategic objectives, including cost-saving initiatives
• Experience of Medical workforce resourcing and deployment
• Experience of developing workforce plans
• Experience of leading, managing and developing teams

Knowledge

• Expert knowledge of temporary staffing services
• Expert knowledge of medical staffing
• Comprehensive understanding of the HR in the NHS agenda

Skills

• Strong influencing and negotiating skills utilised at a senior level
• Credibility and integrity at senior management level in order to earn the confidence and respect vital to lead and deliver major change
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills with the ability to convey information and ideas effectively to a variety of audiences
• Ability to understand and produce meaningful analysis of complex information
• Excellent leadership/ interpersonal skills with ability to lead, manage and inspire others
• Business decision making skills
• Strategic thinking and planning
• Excellent organisational and prioritising skills, including the ability to work under pressure

Other

• The ability to travel across Trust geographical area

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal or Aintree

Liverpool

L7 8YE

https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/