Policy Adviser

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 350267**Salary**:

- £32,188 - £38,628- London : £36,244 - £38,628 National : £32,188 - £35,005- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent
- Fixed term
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- This role is being advertised on a permanent basis. If preferable, Loan or Secondment options will also be available for existing Civil Servants (Loan) and applicants from accredited NDPBs or any other employer (Secondment)**Business area**:

- DHSC - Secondary Care and Integration Group - NHS Workforce**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 6Contents

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- Leeds, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose - to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you.

We are advertising a number of exciting and challenging policy roles within the NHS Workforce Directorate, which is part of the Secondary Care and Integration Group. The NHS workforce is a complex, high-profile policy area with considerable interest from ministers and senior officials, the public and the media. It is at the heart of ensuring the NHS can deliver the services the country needs. Internationally, it's vital to have a strong and resilient health workforce and through collaboration with the NHS and partners we can support developing countries to optimise, build and strengthen theirs.

The post-holders will have the opportunity to work on a range of policy issues, collaborating with colleagues across Government, the NHS, the wider health and education sectors and internationally.

**Job description**:
There are six roles available.

Roles 1 and 2 are based in the Workforce Planning, Experience and Retention branch of the NHS Workforce Directorate. The branch leads on long term workforce planning; the Government’s 50,000 nurses manifesto commitment; staff experience of working in the NHS; staff retention; temporary staffing; widening participation; union engagement (outside of pay) and coordination across the Directorate.

Roles 3, 4, 5 and 6 are based in the NHS Workforce Supply branch. The branch is responsible for the domestic and international supply of healthcare professionals into the NHS, and involves an annual budget of over £5.5bn. The branch plays a key role in delivery of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP), a historic and high-profile plan to put NHS staffing on a sustainable footing and improve patient care. It also supports developing countries manage their health workforce. All four roles have substantial discrete responsibilities, but with up to 25% of each role likely to be focused on wider work in the branch - to support capacity in a very busy work area, and to enrich the experience of the postholders.

Role 1 - Temporary Staffing and Widening Participation Policy Advisor

Role 2 - Staff Engagement Policy Advisor

Role 3 - Medical Education and Training Policy Advisor

Role 4 - Clinical Education and Training Policy Advisor

We are advertising two roles leading medical education and training policy - one focusing on doctors, and the other focusing on clinical staff (nurses, midwives and Allied Health Professionals).

Both roles will drive delivery of highly challenging and high-profile commitments in the Long Term Workforce Plan - including unprecedented increases in the number of healthcare professionals that we train, and ambitious reforms to how they are trained. They will play a central part in ensuring that the NHS has a medical and clinical workforce of the right size, practicing in the right parts of the country and with the right capability to meet the country’s needs.

The post-holders will primarily support delivery of the LTWP, working with partners to deliver and track highly ambitious and high-profile commitments on the education and training of doctors and the clinical professions. Priorities include doubling of medical school places in England and almost doubling the number of adult nurses training places; ensuring that healthcare professionals are training in the parts of the country that need them most; shortening training times; and widening access to healthcare careers, including radically increasing the number of staff who train as apprentices.

The roles will entail leading policy work and delivering in partnership with others. This will require close work with health and education partners including NHS England, the Department for Education and the Office for Students; with HMT and No10 and with senior and highly