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Job overview

At Queen Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, we are embarking on a once in a generation journey to transform healthcare. As the Workforce Planning Lead for our visionary new hospital development, you'll play a central role in an unparalleled opportunity to be part of a team that will be igniting a new era of healthcare excellence and improved outcomes.

Our unwavering commitment revolves around putting patients first. Every day, we dedicate ourselves to creating an environment that ensures your safety, comfort, and care. Our goal is to offer you a warm, respectful, and compassionate experience where our dedicated staff always find the time to listen and keep you informed, making your journey with us truly exceptional.

Join us in this remarkable journey where your role as the Lead People Manager is pivotal in reshaping the future of healthcare in QEH. Become a part of the Queen Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust team and be a part of something truly extraordinary.

Main duties of the job

The Workforce Planning Lead – New QEH will be responsible for the integration of workforce planning with the business planning and financial processes within the Trust. Ensuring that the Trust’s arrangements for all aspects of workforce planning are robust, coordinated, well documented, routinely reviewed, and aligned to the requirements of the future organisation. Driving the effective use of workforce information in service development activity across aligned to the new hospital and related projects.

Ensure alignment with and exert influence on the Trust’s corporate objectives, people plan and associated strategies so that they support the delivery of the new hospital project.

Liaising with key stakeholders to ensure engagement of staff, trade unions, system partners and HEI, FEI in the development of plans.

Support the meaningful engagement of staff and their representatives in the development of new services and ensure appropriate, compliant engagement and change management processes are followed throughout the project.

To lead, plan, manage and coordinate, specific workforce projects and initiatives as required using project management tools and methodology to ensure timely, quality outcomes.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH.  We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
 
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
 
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
 
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
 
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit.  We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.  We love working here and think you will too.