Job Planning Lead – Allied Health Professionals

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is looking for a Job Planning Lead to implement e-Job Planning for Allied Health Professionals. This role involves managing projects to improve workforce productivity, training users on systems, and supporting strategic planning through data analysis. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in workforce transformation and project management.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in workforce transformation.
• Proven leadership and project management skills.
• Experience with e-Job Planning systems.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the rollout and optimisation of e-Job Planning for AHPs.
• Manage workforce productivity projects using Quality Improvement methodologies.
• Support demand and capacity planning and analyse productivity data.
• Develop operational policies and guidance materials.

Skills

Workforce transformation

Leadership

Project management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Master's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Allocate/Optima system

Job description

Job Planning Lead – Allied Health Professionals

Are you passionate about workforce transformation and improving productivity in healthcare? We are seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking Job Planning Lead for Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) to join our Nursing and Patient Experience Division. This pivotal role will lead the implementation and embedding of e-Job Planning across our AHP workforce, driving service improvement through structured project and programme management. You'll work closely with the Chief AHP and collaborate across clinical divisions.

*Job description subject to final approve*

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the rollout and optimisation of e-Job Planning for AHPs.
• Manage workforce productivity projects using Quality Improvement and programme management methodologies.
• Configure and maintain the Allocate/Optima system, train users, and ensure compliance.
• Support demand and capacity planning, and analyse productivity data to inform strategic decisions.
• Develop operational policies and guidance materials, and act as the system expert for AHP job planning.

What We're Looking For

Essential

• Substantial experience in workforce transformation.
• Proven leadership and project management skills.
• Experience with e-Job Planning systems (e.g., Allocate).
• Strong analytical, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage complex conversations and drive change.

Desirable

• Registered AHP.
• Master's degree or equivalent experience.
• Leadership/management qualification.
• Experience working across multiple AHP settings and multidisciplinary teams.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

• To lead on the embedding of e-Job Planning for AHPs across Whittington Health.
• To lead AHP workforce productivity projects using a structured project management approach to design, implement, and evaluate service improvements.
• To project lead, manage or support each project and to be responsible for the interpretation of national policies and guidance for the project area.
• To develop and use project management tools such as plans, risk registers, and issue logs to track progress.
• To make informed decisions on complex issues, resolving conflicting views within projects.
• To manage delivery planning and capacity modelling, ensuring systems and processes support accurate estimates aligned with service goals, commissioner needs, priorities, and budgets.
• To ensure that comprehensive information about the AHP workforce is accessible, accurate and meets internal and external requirements.
• To chair meeting and reviews of job planning with clinical divisions and teams.
• To carry out research or audits to help the implementation and development of projects.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Master's or equivalent experience.
• Experience in Project Management.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Registered AHP.

Skills & Abilities

• Proven ability to lead.
• Self‑motivated and independent.
• Able to set priorities, meet deadlines.
• Responds to the changing needs of the Organisation.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Good verbal and written skills.
• Ability to prepare and present formal reports.
• Ability to think creatively, analyse and solve problems.
• Good IT skills including developing and analysing data through reports that are user friendly.
• Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries, and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships.
• Sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy and diverse interest groups.

Knowledge & Experience

• Knowledge and experience of using the Allocate or other e-Job Planning system.
• Experience of delivering projects of work utilising quality improvement/ project management methodology.
• Knowledge of National and local strategic priorities for optimising AHP workforce.
• Knowledge and experience of utilising risk assessments to elevate concerns.
• Knowledge of Trust clinical and workforce strategy.
• Knowledge and experience of working with the AHP workforce across multiple settings.
• Multidisciplinary working.
• Proven ability to analyse complex problems and to develop and successfully implement practical and workable solutions to address them.

Personal Qualities

• Promote equality and diversity within the workplace.
• Good time management.
• Good attendance and health record.
• Demonstrate the ability to listen actively.
• Able to sensitively discuss potentially contentious points.
• Demonstrate a problem‑solving approach.

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.

£64,156 to £71,148 a yearPer Annum including HCAS