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Workforce matters
How to workforce plan to support
integrated service improvement
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Programme
Aims
• Provide and overview and a ‘taster’ of how to
workforce plan using a NWP ‘6 step’ approach
• Make the connections between service, finance and
workforce planning
• Begin to understand the roles of commissioners and
providers in workforce planning
• Sign post other tools, resources and support
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National Workforce Projects
• Supporting NHS
and ISIP
organisations
achieve their
workforce objectives
by helping ensure
they have the ability
to effectively plan for
future workforce
needs, adapt to new
ways of working and
face future
challenges
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Six step methodology
• Overview of workforce planning
• Why use the ‘6’ step approach to workforce planning?
• What resources are out there to help support you to
workforce plan effectively?
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Skills for Health
Workforce Review Team
Employers Organisation
Others
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Six Step Guide
Step 1 – Defining the workforce plan
Who will you involve? What will you include in the plan?
Step 2 – Visioning the future
What will your service look like in the future?
Step 3 – Assessing demand
What numbers and type of staff will you need?
Step 4 – Assessing supply
Where will your staff come from?
Step 5 – Action Planning
Is the plan realistic, what will it cost?
Step 6 – Implementation and review
What will you do to make the plan happen?
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Step one – Defining the workforce plan
• Through the ISIP and service planning process you will
have addressed some of these questions
– Who needs to be involved in creating the workforce plan?
– What timescale, client group, geographic area, services and
staff are covered by the workforce plan?
– What are the benefits that the workforce plan is trying to
achieve?
– How does this fit with your wider service change process?
e.g. local service improvement plans
Reason, function, scope and fit
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Step two – Visioning the future
• As part of the ISIP plan there will be a clear vision of
what the future looks like.
– In what way does the service vision incorporate the
workforce requirements?
– What external changes, such as organisational and service
reconfiguration, does the workforce plan need to take
account of?
– What will your workforce of the future to look like?
Visioning, goals, targets and objectives
Scenario planning
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• How will the workforce plan be used in our organisations?
– Who needs to be involved in creating the workforce plan?
– What timescale, client group, geographic area, services and staff
are covered by the workforce plan?
– What are the benefits that the workforce plan is trying to achieve?
– How does this fit with your wider service change process? e.g. local
service improvement plans
• What changes in the future will affect your services?
– In what way does the service vision incorporate the workforce
requirements?
– What external changes, such as organisational and service
reconfiguration, does the workforce plan need to take account of?
– What will your workforce of the future to look like?
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On your tables summarise how you would describe the
findings you have discussed from step one and step two
during an 2 minute elevator conversation with the CEO or the
chair of your organisation.
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Scenarios
• On your tables agree which group of services/model
of care you will focus on for the purpose of this
exercise e.g.
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Diabetes
Urgent care
18 weeks – Trauma & orthopaedics, ENT
End of life care, palliative care
Mental health
Long term conditions
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Step three – Assessing demand
• What type and numbers of staff will you need?
– What services will make up the delivery of your model of care?
– How will you identify the competencies that staff need to deliver
the model of care?
– How do these competencies translate into staff roles and numbers?
– How does the workforce plan include and reflect new ways of
working and new staff roles?
– How does the workforce plan maximise the benefits of agenda for
change etc?
– How are you demonstrating compliance with WTD, equality and
diversity legislation?
Impact, productivity, new ways of working
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Step four – Assessing supply
• Where will your staff come from?
– How can we find out what staff we have got?
– What do you know about your current labour market?
– What staff do we have available now? What is does the staff
profile tell us?
– How can we find out the current skills and competencies of
the staff?
– What plans are in place to deliver future staffing numbers?
– What are the rates of staff joining and leaving our service?
– How can we organise our staff to ensure best use of skills
and to maximise productivity?
Characteristics & options
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What type and numbers of staff will you need?
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Where will your staff come from?
– What services will make up the delivery of your model of care?
– How will you identify the competencies that staff need to deliver the model
of care?
– How do these competencies translate into staff roles and numbers?
– How does the workforce plan include and reflect new ways of working and
new staff roles?
– How does the workforce plan maximise the benefits of agenda for change
etc?
– How are you demonstrating compliance with WTD, equality and diversity
legislation?
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How can we find out what staff we have got?
What do you know about your current labour market?
What staff do we have available now? What is does the staff profile tell us?
How can we find out the current skills and competencies of the staff?
What plans are in place to deliver future staffing numbers?
What are the rates of staff joining and leaving our service?
How can we organise our staff to ensure best use of skills and to maximise
productivity?
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Activity
• In groups, what activities will you undertake to
respond to step 3 and 4?
• What tools are available to help you?
• 2-3 groups feedback
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This is where you are now….
• You have a clear vision of service from ISIP or service plan,
who, what, where, when and how – Step 1
• Have a good understanding of the how the workforce plan fits
with the over all service vision – Step 2
• Decided what future workforce might look like – Step 3
• You know current workforce and their
charactoristics/competencies – Step 4
• Next steps…… 5 and 6
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Step five – Gap analysis and action
planning
• Is the plan realistic, what will it cost?
– Have we identified any gaps in demand and supply of staff?
– How well do the skills and competencies match expected planned
service need?
– What can we change in the way we organise our current staff to
address the gap?
– Have we developed and tested a range of scenarios for delivery our
planned future service?
– What is the cost and benefit of implementing different scenarios?
– How will you integrated this into the your mainstream project
deliverables?
Mapping, impact & options
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Step six- Implementation and review
• Moving from planning to delivery
– What needs to happen to ensure the workforce plan is
implemented?
– How will we measure our progress towards the plans goals?
– What actions are needed to stay on course if goals are not
being met?
– Who, how and when will the workforce plan be reviewed by
to see if it needs to be reworked?
– Who needs to do what?
Measuring progress, review and organisational change
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So what?
• What activities do you need to undertake to
implement step 5 and 6?
• What top 5 actions are you going to take to
implement this back in your organisation?
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What resources are out there to
help you?
• NHS National Workforce Projects - Healthcare workforce
portal – resource packs, e-learning, advice and guidance,
benchmarking tools, examples of plans, capability development
– www.healthcareworkforce.org.uk
• NHS Employers – Large scale workforce programme –
scenarios, best practice examples – www.nhsemployers.org.uk
• Skills for Health – Competency frameworks e.g. CHD,
diabetes – www.skillsforhealth.org.uk
• Workforce Review Team – Workforce recommendations and
analysis by care groups – www.healthcareworkforce.org.uk
• National Diabetes Support Team – Advice and guidance –
www.diabetes.nhs.uk
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