Workforce Planning, Supply and Performance Analyst

NHS; Southampton; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Hampshire is seeking a Workforce Planning, Supply and Performance Analyst to lead workforce planning and forecasting. The role involves engaging with senior professionals to create tools for effective workforce management. Ideal candidates possess advanced data analysis skills and experience in workforce planning techniques. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for career development.

Qualifications

• Ability to undertake data analysis including advanced knowledge of MS Excel.
• Specialist experience of workforce planning techniques and analytics.
• Experience of data modelling and forecast planning for workforce.

Responsibilities

• Lead on aspects of workforce planning and forecasting.
• Support with performance monitoring and workforce plans.
• Align workforce planning tools with business requirements.

Skills

Data analysis

Workforce planning techniques

MS Excel

Data manipulation systems

Performance management frameworks

Education

Relevant experience in workforce planning

Masters Level education in applicable subject

Tools

Business intelligence systems

Job description

Overview

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Workforce Planning, Supply and Performance Analyst

The closing date is 19 September 2025

Open only to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service or Hampshire Hospitals FT

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit an experienced and skilled workforce analyst. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys being creative, making the most of their technical analytical skills and expertise, to understand and plan workforce in a complex environment, whilst engaging, and educating others.

This role will lead on aspects of workforce planning and forecasting, using your technical skills, you will work with senior clinical and managerial professionals to forecast and plan the workforce we need now, and in the future.

Leveraging your understanding of workforce planning techniques, data modelling and analytics you will act as the subject matter expert on workforce planning and forecasting, designing new tools empowering people to forecast and plan their workforce effectively and efficiently. This may include embedding these tools in Insights, or Power BI to increase accessibility, and truly embed workforce planning across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will also support the Trust with performance monitoring, workforce plan, and workforce performance. Working with the Associate Director of Workforce Planning, Supply and Performance, this role will support the Trust, and Divisions by providing a workforce performance framework, to monitor and report on the progress and delivery of the People and Workforce Plan.

Using their technical abilities, the role holder will support the Trust to respond to local and national demands for workforce plans, and ensure there are robust performance measures and management mechanisms in place to monitor the delivery.

Working with partners, the role holder will align workforce planning and forecasting tools with business requirements, Trust strategy, and financial budgets to support delivery of plans.

The role will support the Trust to forecast and model future workforce needs, through analysis of national and local data, producing a range of resources to empower managers to plan their current and future workforce.

Leveraging their technical expertise and understanding of workforce data and systems, they will act as the subject matter expert on workforce planning and forecasting tools.

The role holder will use their technical skills to support the development and delivery of a workforce performance dashboards and reports. Monitoring the delivery of workforce and people plans, and associated projects linked to strategy delivery.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job responsibilities

Main Duties Continued:

Essential technical experience needed will be ability to undertake data analysis including advanced knowledge of MS Excel and other data manipulation systems e.g. business intelligence systems, with specialist experience of workforce planning techniques, and analytics.

The ability to work creatively to build new tools to support us to educate and embed workforce forecasting and planning, will also be important to us.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• To have relevant experience in the field of workforce planning and analysis or educated to Masters Level in an applicable subject.
• Specialist experience of workforce planning techniques, and information analysis.
• Performance management frameworks.

Experience

• Specialist experience of workforce planning techniques, and technical experience of working in data analysis including advanced knowledge of MS Excel and other data manipulation systems e.g. business intelligence systems.
• Experience of data modelling and forecast planning for workforce.
• Ability to interpret complex numeric and financial data, presenting in an accessible way for a range of colleagues.
• A pragmatic and collaborative approach to problem solving.
• Producing workforce performance dashboards, and reports to keep others informed of their position, and inform decisions.
• Working in a dynamic environment, be flexible and adaptable to respond to changing priorities, and both planned, and unplanned, deadlines.
• Present to, and train a range of stakeholders to use data, and tools to support their performance.
• Strong relationship builder and credible communicator to a range of stakeholders, including key partners, finance.
• Credibly debate, and influence others, in support of your work.
• Operate with emotional intelligence.
• NHS workforce planning and/or information experience.

Additional Criteria

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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.

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearBased on full time hours