Workforce resilience and transformation

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The ‘one workforce’ approach set out in the NHS People Plan underpins the work we do to support systems and staff through change and transformation. We achieve this through a combination of consultancy skills and locally deployed teams who integrate with your workforce to support change, enable service improvement and transformation and encourage the adoption of new ways of working.

NHS Midlands and Lancashire is of the NHS, for the NHS, supporting a range of organisations including NHS England, integrated care boards, trusts and primary care networks with solutions to their most pressing workforce challenges.

Collaborating closely with you, we offer a versatile approach to resource allocation, leveraging our valuable skills, extensive experience, and capacity. Additionally, we grant you access to a multidisciplinary team of experts who excel in areas such as workforce analytics, project management, and digital innovation. Our primary objective is to provide you with solutions that are not only effective but also adaptable and sustainable.

Our commitment extends beyond just delivering solutions; we are dedicated to assisting you in implementing meaningful change and comprehending its impact. Please continue reading to discover how you can harness our operational expertise, consultancy services, and strategic support to reach your organisational goals.

People services delivery

Embedded or outsourced HR, recruitment and ESR / payroll services, and support with complex change including TUPE

Leadership development, coaching and organisational development

Recruitment campaigns, digital marketing, selection including assessment centres and psychometrics

Workforce transformation

Responding to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan to help you understand your workforce and to model capacity and demand

Establishing effective strategies to grow a strong and resilient future workforce and retain existing talent

Health and well being, flexible / agile working models, and diversity and inclusion to build resilience in your workforce

Scaling people services

Guiding you through NHSE’s guidance on scaling services, offering support with discovery, design and development, implementation and evaluation

Our key strengths

  • As part of the NHS, working also for the wider care sector, we foster common understanding and deliver value for money
  • Insights drawn by analysts and workforce specialists from the wealth of data we manage
  • Ability to recognise gaps in the system and pull expertise from across our organisation to solve partner challenges
  • Operational and strategic HR skills, clinical expertise and data modelling support workforce planning
  • Flexibility – deployment of teams to meet priorities
  • Independence – objectivity to facilitate collaboration
  • Sharing of best practice
  • Equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights expertise
  • Direct experience of system leadership, delivery at scale and partnership working.

Key leads

Clare Thomason

Lead for services in Lancashire, Cheshire and Merseyside

Miranda Pilkington

Lead for services to NHS England and national bodies

Sarah Sheppard

Lead for Workforce resilience, planning and transformation

We think you’ll need

  • Support with delivering the ‘one workforce’ approach
  • Workforce planning to support delivery of NHS Long Term Workforce Plan
  • Support to move towards models of delivery at scale for some people services
  • Focus on equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Commitment to workforce health and wellbeing
  • Enabling service design through new ways of working, particularly across place-based partnerships and provider collaboratives
  • Organisational change design and management
  • Developing staffing structures, enabling transition of roles
  • Leadership, culture and organisational development.
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News, views and case studies

9 April 2024

Supporting hospital transformation programmes to embed equality, diversity, and inclusion considerations

Between 2022 and 2023, our Inclusion Unit provided a bespoke ‘due regard’ support package to the Lancashire and South Cumbria New Hospitals…

4 March 2024

New Podcast: Unravelling unconscious bias in healthcare

Join host Richard Caddy for another thought-provoking session in our latest podcast with our Inclusion Unit. Tune in to “Inside NHS Midlands…

26 January 2024

Explore the intricacies of unconscious bias: A webinar for local authorities

In the ever-evolving landscape of local governance, the pursuit of equitable decision-making remains a paramount objective. To advance this critical endeavour, we…

10 January 2024

Enhance your business case skills with our accredited training

Are you looking to advance your expertise in business case development?  The NHS England Business Case Training Team, now hosted by NHS…

22 December 2023

Improving workforce sustainability at an NHS foundation trust

Our Organisational Development team implemented a dynamic five-year integrated workforce plan at an NHS foundation trust, resulting in a clear prioritised plan…

11 December 2023

New podcast: Inclusive decision-making in healthcare

Recorded live at the NHS ConfedExpo, join host Richard Caddy in an enlightening conversation with Jess Tyrrell and Rachel Newton, Inclusion Business…

5 December 2023

Upholding equality, diversity, and inclusion in times of financial cutbacks

Robert Beardall, Inclusion Unit Project Manager, NHS ML As a professional navigating the financial landscape of the NHS and large public sector…

10 November 2023

Enhancing equality impact assessments at Terrence Higgins Trust

The Inclusion Unit’s workshops significantly improved Terrence Higgins Trust’s approach to equality impact assessments, fostering deeper engagement, understanding, and a shift towards…

16 October 2023

Hope and Honesty: Reflections on NHS Employers Strategic Workforce Conference  

Adam Burgess-Evans, Deputy Director of People, NHS ML Attendance at the NHS Employers Strategic Workforce Conference last week proved to be two…

10 October 2023

Supporting an integrated care board’s achievement of the race equality code quality mark

Our collaboration resulted in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board (ICB) becoming the first Integrated Care Board in the country to earn…

25 August 2023

Blog: NHS Long Term Plan – is Generation Z going to be the answer? 

Adam Burgess-Evans, Deputy Director of People, NHS ML As numerous 16 and 18 year olds in England receive their GCSE and A…

18 July 2023

Bespoke coaching to support staff through new or difficult situations 

We supported staff through challenging situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, organisational change, and developing communication skills which resulted in improved well-being,…

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