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A workforce strategy is the answer to a set of questions the board has to be able to hold. What does the service need to be over the next five to ten years, what workforce would deliver it, what stands between us and that workforce, and what will we do about it? We help boards and executive teams answer those questions properly.
What's covered
- Board-level workforce strategy - a five to ten year workforce strategy that a board can own, communicate and be accountable for.…
- Strategic workforce reviews - an assessment of where you are, where you need to be, and the gap between the two.
- Future workforce design - new roles, career pathways, skill-mix changes and their implications for training, terms and conditions,…
- Workforce narratives - the story the strategy tells, in language a non-executive, a clinician and a chief finance officer can each…
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A strategy sets direction. A plan gives you a way to steer. We build integrated workforce plans across acute, community, primary care, mental health and social care, built on rigorous demand and supply modelling and grounded in the financial envelope you actually have.
What's covered
- Demand and supply modelling - quantitative modelling across professions, services and time horizons.
- Integrated workforce plans - joined-up plans across settings, aligned to service and financial plans.
- Productivity and skill-mix analysis - evidence-based options for delivering more with the workforce you can realistically build.…
- Workforce risk and resilience modelling - scenario planning, contingency options and a clear-eyed view of exposure.
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Our OD work is about building the human conditions in which strategy can actually be delivered. It is rigorous, evidence-informed, and unapologetically practical.
What's covered
- Organisational diagnostics - culture, climate, leadership effectiveness and team functioning.
- OD strategy - a clear, board-owned OD plan linked to organisational strategy with measurable outcomes.
- Leadership and management development - designed for your specific leadership challenges.
- Team development - for executive, clinical leadership and partnership teams.
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Some of our most valuable work is also our shortest. A focused diagnostic, an independent review, an honest options appraisal - done in weeks, not months - can be the difference between a board that is stuck and a board that can move.
What's covered
- Workforce diagnostics - structured, evidence-based review of a defined workforce question, delivered in two to six weeks.
- Independent reviews - board-commissioned reviews of services, functions or programmes.
- Options appraisals - robust evaluation of strategic options, including workforce, OD and change implications.
- Pre-business-case strategic work - the upstream thinking that makes a business case credible.
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When the gap is a capability gap - a function that needs to work differently, a leader who needs a peer, a team that needs a step-change in what it can do - the answer is not always a fixed-scope consultancy engagement. Sometimes the right thing is a senior practitioner alongside your team for a defined period, working the problem with them and leaving the capability behind. That is what this service does. We are not an interim agency; we build capability.
What's covered
- Senior capability injection - a senior workforce, OD, transformation or planning specialist embedded alongside your team for a def…
- Bridge cover with capability transfer - covering a directorate or programme during recruitment or restructure, and using the time …
- Programme surge capacity - senior programme, PMO or workforce leads into a time-bound piece of work, contracted for the outcome ra…
- Coaching-in-role for a new leader - a senior peer working alongside a newly appointed director for the first six to twelve months.…
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We design and deliver training and development programmes in the disciplines we practise every day - workforce strategy, workforce planning, organisational development, transformation and change. Every programme is built by senior practitioners and delivered by people who have done the work at scale in NHS and equivalent settings.
What's covered
- Workforce planning for system and place - structured training programmes for ICS, ICB and place-based workforce planning teams.…
- Executive and leadership development - board, executive and clinical-leadership programmes tailored to your specific challenge.…
- Programme and change academy - technical training in programme leadership, PMO and change management for internal programme functi…
- Action learning sets and peer learning - facilitated peer learning across a cohort of senior leaders working on a shared challenge…
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