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We have an exciting opportunity at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for an Allied Heath Professional to join our Corporate Nursing and Therapies Team as an Allied Health Professions eJob Planning and Workforce Professional Lead. This is a permanent appointment for 15 hours per week. The role is perfect for those with an interest in digital systems and workforce development.
Interviews to be held on 29th and 30th July 2026
The post holder will lead Electronic Job Planning (eJP) for AHP workforce across Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust, supporting the AHP workforce to utilise job planning to plan clinical and non-clinical time to meet the demands of the of providing high quality services and development. This will involve understanding and using policy strategy, evidence, data and intelligence to design, deliver and evaluate programmes of work for the AHP workforce.
The post will support the organisation in shifting from analogue to digital aligned to the 10-year plan, supporting the AHP workforce to align electronic job planning in delivering local, regional and national targets and strategic objectives including increasing productivity and efficiency.
The post holder will support BCHC to meet the national development stages of the NHSI eJP Levels of Attainment.
This post will be responsible for analysing electronic job plans and inform warranted and unwarranted variation support programmes of work to reduce unwarranted variation and interpret complex data to inform and shape the future workforce informing demand and capacity and alignment of workforce to local and national strategy.
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
Our Core Values of caring, open, respectful, responsible and inclusive are that everyone feels valued and respected and are included and involved in everything that affects them; are trusted to make decisions with clear reasons in order to be empowered to deliver; are committed to clear, effective communication, which is transparent and open when sharing information; takes pride and has integrity in everything we do and recognises that everyone has a significant contribution whilst taking personal responsibility and accountability for actions and behaviours.
The post holder will manage a programme of activities to support the continued delivery of the AHP Strategy, eJP and the development of AHPs within the organisation.
To be the expert AHP in understanding the requirements of the AHP workforce enabling the delivery of a workforce strategy
Influence the development of the clinical workforce utilising workforce and clinical knowledge to inform/assure SPA time supports career development of AHP’s.
Use relevant eJP and workforce data to support/inform skill mixing and workforce planning.
To collaborate effectively with senior AHP clinicians and service/professional leads across the Trust, considering current and revised national standards, working across professional boundaries
Ensuring BCHC eJPs use the NHSI national categories to agree the allocation of time between Direct Clinical Care (DCC), Supporting Professional Activities (SPA), other NHS responsibilities (ANR) and External Duties (ED).
Proactively engaging with colleagues across the trust
Ensuring all AHP’s and other colleagues (as agreed) at BCHC have a meaningful eJP in line with local and national targets
Support the organisation in policy setting and implementation of eJP to wider professional groups as agreed
Analysing the data of eJP and collaboratively develop programmes of work to reduce unwarranted variation and inform future workforce planning.
Providing expert knowledge of eJP including an in depth understanding of local and national policies, strategy, evidence, data and intelligence across eJP, workforce and the wider organisation.
Providing expert knowledge in demand and capacity mapping related to eJP and alignment with service, organisational and national objectives.
Line management responsibility: AHP eJP Systems Lead/Band 6
Authorised Budget Holder and signatory for items up to the value of £1,000; and manage all resources allocated to the project.
Main Duties
Support the develop of workforce plans
Understand recruitment, retention, hard to recruit and attrition of the AHP and able to support services in collaboration with clinical and professional leads in modelling workforce
Co-ordinate data gathering across diverse AHP professions to ensure that accurate data is provided in the right format to meet deadlines, and follow up and escalating as necessary any delays in the return of key information.
Monitor a range of baseline data including staffing numbers, turnover, vacancy data and eJP compliance, identifying trends, or areas of improvement
Knowledge and understanding of a range of AHP professional structures, education requirements and specific work force challenges.
Knowledge and understanding of the workforce issues across a broad range of allied health professions.
Knowledge of workforce planning tools.
Knowledge of service improvement tools and techniques.
Understanding of the current issues facing the local and wider NHS, including the impact of government policy.
Understanding of the issues facing the Trust’s AHP workforce and the impact on workforce planning.
Provide expert professional knowledge on eJP its value, present and future use and its relationship to workforce optimisation, clinical utilisation, productivity and safe staffing.
Awareness of the importance and triangulation of eJP, demand and capacity and workforce planning to support divisions/teams in service modelling and delivery of high quality of care
Support the use of eJP in developing safer staffing and workforce models aligned to organisational priorities
Lead trust wide programmes of work aligned to workforce planning including non-medical eJP
Develop policies and procedures required for successful implementation, utilisation, optimisation in deploying the workforce appropriately
Ensure relevant policies and procedures related to eJP are adhered to.
Awareness of national, local strategy and able to interpret into project linked to workforce and eJP
Ensure BCHC remains at the NHSI Level 2 of Compliance and support the organisation in gaining higher
Undertakes research, surveys and audit necessary to own work, these are likely to include researching AHP and eJP workforce topics
Develop and deliver programmes of training to ensure all staff have appropriate skills and support to fully implement eJP and its benefits; inclusive of the purpose/value/use of eJP, the electronic system, reporting functionality, data analysis and horizon scanning.
Lead with support from the BCHC Information Team and RLDatix the download of collective eJP data. Analysing complex data to inform improvement programmes of work related to workforce deployment.
Develop and deliver programmes that review variation across all eJPs ensuring consistency and reduce unwarranted variation.
Lead the planning, organisation and delivery of a complex annual review of all eJPs to ensure the delivery of all elements of the annual review, audit, data analysis, learning and new developments; being aware and responsive to changing clinical priorities and needs.
Measures and evaluates outcome of eJP aligned to strategic and operational decision making on eJP and develops programmes of work using multiple methodologies to manage performance
Maintain a high level of knowledge of the function of electronic system. Inclusive of how to configure new teams/hierarchies on the system, develop/review eJPs, and wider role/functions of the systems administrator.
Ensure all local and national data requirements are delivered/or deliverable
For example
- BCHC Scorecard
- BCHC-Annual eJP audit against agreed standards to support consistency.
- NHSi submissions
Ensure future progression of data use/learning; inclusive of benchmarking with other Trusts and collating Care Hours to Contact data.
Support services in understanding available DCC and identify areas of improvement i.e. non patient facing DCC
Communicate, provide and present highly complex information to a wide range of stakeholders to agree eJP delivery, concerns, development, and its role within the wider workforce optimisation agenda.
Chair trust wide meetings relevant to eJP demand and capacity and workforce planning and modelling
Represent AHP workforce at relevant local, trust wide and external meetings as agreed
Support, influence and negotiate with individuals, teams, and leaders where matters of conflict may arise on core related issues.
Support the nursing and therapies corporate team in developing priorities and improvement programmes.
Produce complex reports, business cases or options appraisals as required and agreed
Delegate appropriate portfolios of work to direct reports.
Collaborate with the stakeholders (i.e. Research and Innovation team) to ensure eJP activity codes and data are inline with national definitions and needs.
Ensure excellent governance arrangements are in place to maintain the electronic system and a robust eJP process.
Responsible for the trust AHP eJP/workforce intranet site ensuring governance processes are in place to maintain contemporaneous information.
Responsible for the ownership and implementation of the AHP eJP Policy; ensuring policies, processes and procedures are reviewed, updated and ratified as per agreed cycle.
Ensure a collaborative development relationship with RLDatix the supplier/developer of BCHC present eJP system; ensuring the system is responsive to present and developing BCHC/AHP needs.
Ensure a process of regular horizon scanning for eJP, clinical workforce utilisation, optimisation and productivity. Inclusive of the Clinical Productivity Workspace within the Future NHS Collaboration.
Line manage and support the eJP Systems Lead in the delivery of their role independently, collaboratively and with others.
Management and Leadership Responsibilities
1. Understand the national perspective and future strategy for the NHS and related areas of health to ensure the workforce are fully aware of the implications and can contribute effectively to service improvement.
2. Develop and empower all members of your team to perform to high standards and innovate.
3. Ensure supportive staff management arrangements are in place and carry out appraisals/personal development reviews (PDR’s) for direct reports. Ensure all staff in your team/s have annual PDR’s resulting in specific objectives and effective personal development plans.
4. Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities both in employment and service delivery. Ensure specific equality objectives are included in PDR’s.
5. Develop a working culture that ensures Health and Wellbeing and promotes a ‘Great Place to Work’.
To undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.
To minimise the Trust’s environmental impact wherever possible, including recycling and switching off equipment when not in use. Helping to reduce paper waste by minimising printing/copying and reducing water usage, reporting faults and heating/cooling concerns promptly and minimising travel. Where the role includes the ordering and use of supplies or equipment the post holder will consider the environmental impact of purchases.
Responsible for ensuring identified training and development is undertaken appropriate to the postholder’s role.
