Digital Workforce

This exciting new role will provide an opportunity for the postholder to lead, develop and support the implementation of high quality, evidence based digital workforce solutions which positively impact upon the employment experience of our people: staff, clinicians and managers across the Trust, freeing up managers and staff to care for patients.

The role will be integral to leading the development of, and further enhancing, the Trust’s workforce informatics infrastructure in response to organisational, service and workforce needs.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our People Services Team, helping to develop and transform our digital workforce solutions across the trust.

The postholder will work closely with the Associate Director of Workforce Transformation and Planning to support the development and implementation of digital workforce solutions and workforce transformation programmes. The post holder will have leadership responsibilities for the Workforce Analyst and other designated staff within the team.

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

**Digital Workforce Solutions**:
Scope and research evidence based digital workforce solutions, which bring about real benefits and efficiencies to the Trust, staff, managers, and patients, and support the achievement of the NHS People Plan.
Working in collaboration with other key stakeholders, and with the support of the Associate Director of Workforce Transformation and Planning, develop business cases and other associated reports and documents to secure organisational support to implement and develop digital workforce solutions and digital workforce transformation.
Project manage the implementation of digital workforce solutions and developments, reporting and presenting progress to relevant meetings and committees.
Develop mechanisms to evaluate the impact of digital workforce solutions. Monitor, measure and report on benefits and efficiencies realised.
Lead development and oversee the implementation of plans to improve the use of existing Trust Workforce solutions, including ESR.
Take the lead, on behalf of the HR & OD Team, to explore how the service can make the best use of technology and digital solutions to deliver outstanding HR and OD services for our people.
Ensure functionality of workforce systems are maximised, and that the highest standards of data and information is maintained.

**Workforce Analysis**:
Working closely with the Associate Director of Workforce Planning & Transformation, support workforce planning and workforce transformation programmes across the Trust, with bespoke and complex workforce reporting, information, and analysis.
Work with a variety of internal and external data warehouse and benchmarking tools, to present workforce reports and analysis of the most up to date and valid comparators for Trust workforce data.
Support the development of the Trust’s use and understanding of workforce benchmarking data, especially amongst senior HR colleagues and Senior Managers, Clinical and Professional Leads within the Trust.
Present workforce reports and workforce analysis, and provide detailed commentary at relevant internal and external Trust/Committee Meetings
Provide expert advice and guidance on both the approach to and on specialist analyses and best use of the information available on Trust systems.

**Workforce Reporting**:
Engage and work with key stakeholders to establish the range and timing of workforce reports, dashboards and analysis, ensuring that these provide comprehensive, accurate and useful workforce data and insights, which can support decision making and the development of short
- and long-term plans and strategies. Incorporate user feedback in further development of the reports and analysis.
Support the Workforce Analyst to ensure a programme of robust and sustainable workforce reporting is in place, and that the skills and capacity exists within the HR & OD team to respond to both regular and ad hoc requests for data, reports and analysis.
Produce complex workforce reports as and when required.
Utilise workforce modelling and forecasting techniques to predict future need and demand.

**Leadership & Management**:
Deputise for the Associate Director of Workforce Transformation & Planning, as and when appropriate.
Provide overall leadership and line management to the Workforce Analyst role, and other designated staff.
Manage a delega