This will be a strategic role supporting the Specialist Category Manager and Associate Director. The position predominantly focuses on the workforce category and will act as the NHSCS expert on providing professional leadership and direction for recruitment, bank, rostering and workforce compliance ensuring efficient, innovative and consistent HR sourcing, contract management and consultancy services across a wide range of customers.
The role will involve multiple workforce and procurement programmes to improve value and quality for trusts. You will also provide workforce advisory services, collaborative workforce solutions, supplier market expertise and work with NHS Trusts to build and retain talent.
You will act as an ambassador for NHSCS working with Trusts on the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan. Working closely with key stakeholders and internal and external customers, you will set up and support individual and collaborative project groups working at all levels of stakeholder seniority.
Skills, experience, and a passion for this subject area are essential, together with a need for strong practical implementation experience.
The role has become available due to promotion and wanting to expand the team.
The role is based at our offices in Dorking, Surrey.
Main duties of the job
At NHS Commercial Solutions (NHSCS), making a difference is important to us. If you're motivated and interested in delivering meaningful progress at the NHS, then this role could be for you.
We are looking a Lead Category Manager Workforce to join our team.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career, workforce and category management experience as part of our strategic category teams. This role will primarily work in the workforce team. It is a critical category and vital to the NHS in supporting the ongoing service pressures across the NHS due to the substantial shortage of clinical staff in England.
This strategic role will be a key driver of value for the NHS and wider public sector through delivering projects, frameworks and call off procurements for customers.
The role will include extensive engagement with our member NHS organisations and other NHS and public sector customers, across a wide range of stakeholders, based locally, regionally and nationally. Key stakeholders also include Workforce Alliance partners, Integrated Care Systems, NHS Employers.
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic individual wanting to make a positive difference in the NHS. The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate strong personal skills, and extensive experience and enthusiasm for workforce and procurement. They will also be a good communicator, have a strong people focused approach, and broad commercial acumen.
NHS Commercial Solutions (NHSCS) is a collaborative procurement NHS organisation providing strategic procurement services to NHS organisations within Kent, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and further afield. NHSCS has delivered savings in excess of £300 million working in partnership with trusts and with multiple stakeholders to deliver cash releasing savings, cost and quality improvements across a wide range of categories.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.