Six Steps to Integrated Workforce Planning: Practical Team Workshop for Health and Care

Six steps to integrated workforce planning

Workforce planning can often feel complicated, technical or overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. This workshop is designed to demystify workforce planning, making it clearer and more accessible.

Using the Six Steps to Integrated Workforce Planning, widely recognised across health and care we break things down into simple, manageable stages that anyone can follow.

Session outcomes

Describe the Six Steps methodology
Recognise why defining the purpose and scope of a workforce plan is essential, and learn approaches for identifying who to involve
Recognise the value of understanding how a service currently works, and gain simple tools and prompts they can use back in their organisation to begin exploring this.
Explore what is meant by required workforce skills, roles and capabilities, and learn methods that help teams think about future workforce needs.
Gain an understanding of workforce availability, including awareness of concepts such as skills mix, establishment and forecasting
Understand the types of workforce gaps that commonly arise, and gain insight into the range of options organisations might consider to address them, including new roles, upskilling and redesigned ways of working.
Explore the core principles of implementation, including how workforce plans evolve, how progress is monitored and how plans are refreshed.

Who should attend this session?

Designed for service managers, clinical leads, HR/OD teams, transformation and improvement professionals, and system partners who want a practical, interactive introduction to workforce planning. Perfect for teams who need a clear methodology and common language to support local workforce conversations

Book this workshop

Please get in touch if you would like to book training and development for your team or organisation, and we'll be happy to discuss your requirements. If you want to pay for services using membership tokens, we will need approval from the lead member at your organisation.

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