Senior Workforce Practitioner

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Workforce Practitioner who is a Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional and passionate about clinical workforce development. The role requires collaboration with senior clinical staff and ESNEFT teams to design, implement, and evaluate workforce projects.

The post is 32 hours per week on a permanent basis, with base sites at Colchester or Ipswich Hospitals and cross-site travel as a requirement.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional (AHP) with clinical workforce interest.
• Excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills, creative thinking and collaboration with senior clinical staff.
• Knowledge of NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and NHS People Promise; awareness of regional workforce initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Support implementation of NHS Long-term Workforce Plan and national initiatives within ESNEFT Clinical Strategy.
• Collaborate with senior clinical staff, workforce lead and recruitment/retention teams to design and evaluate workforce projects.
• Develop relationships with clinical areas to provide support and advice on projects and initiatives.
• Help grow and develop our clinical workforce pipeline and support Safer Staffing agendas.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Creative thinking

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional (AHP)

Tools

NHS Long Term Workforce Plan

NHS People Promise

Job description

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

We have one 32 hrs permanent position from 4th January 2027.

You will need excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills and the ability to think creatively in order to collaborate with senior clinical staff and ESNEFT recruitment and retention teams to design, implement and evaluate clinical workforce projects.

You will have a working knowledge of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and NHS People Promise as well as an awareness of national and regional clinical workforce initiatives.

You can choose whether your base site will be Colchester or Ipswich Hospitals however cross site working and travel is a requirement of the role.

• To support implementation of the NHS Long-term workforce Plan, NHS People promise, national and regional clinical workforce initiatives in line with ESNEFT Clinical Strategy
• To collaborate with senior clinical staff, the workforce lead, ESNEFT recruitment and retention teams and the Faculty of Education to design, implement and evaluate clinical workforce projects
• Develop and maintain a professional relationship with clinical areas and key corporate divisions providing support and advice with ongoing projects and initiatives
• Support activities to grow and develop our clinical workforce pipeline
• Support delivery of trust-wide training for medical devices
• Identify and develop resources to support retention of non-medical clinical staff.
• Support Safer Staffing agenda

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.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

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 what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tracey Risebrow Job title: Clinical Workforce Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07464510397

Sarah Kench

Head of Clinical Workforce

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