Workforce

How to use the Workforce section

To begin, Watch the video…link from 6 steps or balanced S site?? Or Watch the video from Euan McGivern, who shares his journey in scoping the whole system workforce redesign. Supporting slides are also provided to help break down each stage of the learning (Needs and slide deck awaited)

Now that you have considered your service current and future needs and understand the workforce required. Consider the information below and using the templates provided, map out your team or service area and add the relevant findings to your workforce plan.

Analysing your workforce

Workforce planning is a systematic process that ensures an organisation has the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles, at the right time, to deliver its current and future services. It involves analysing service demand, understanding workforce supply, identifying gaps, and developing strategies to recruit, develop, deploy, and retain staff. Effective workforce planning helps services stay sustainable, responsive, and able to meet changing population and system needs. Further detail on how to systematically approach this can be found in the NHS Six Step Workforce Planning Methodology (insert link) and the Balanced System® framework (insert link)  which together provide structured, evidence-based tools to understand demand, model workforce requirements, and design sustainable AHP services. 

Workforce Considerations

How do I maximise the skill mix of my entire workforce? 

The resources below will help you assess your current workforce, identify opportunities to optimise skill mix, and redesign roles to meet service demand more effectively.

The Skills Maximisation Toolkit supports services to review and optimise how skills, capabilities and roles are used across the whole workforce. It helps identify opportunities to work at the top of scope, improve skill mix, redesign roles, and align workforce capacity with service demand and population need. The toolkit provides practical guidance, tools and examples to support safe, effective and sustainable workforce redesign

• Link the skills maximisation toolkit (insert when link available)
• AHP Capability Framework

How do I work out the capacity of my workforce? 

Job planning is the process of systematically outlining roles, responsibilities, and working patterns for staff, enabling organisations to accurately determine both service and individual capacity by aligning workforce allocation with service demands and educational requirements. It can be used to: 

• Make roles and responsibilities explicit. 

• Ensure protected time across all four pillars of practice
• Align job plans to service needs and education requirements. 

• Templates and resources can be found at – How: Job Planning