Job overview

We are seeking an experienced Workforce Business Partner to provide senior medical workforce expertise within our Medical Directorate. Working closely with the Chief Medical Officer and senior medical leaders, you will offer strategic, data‑driven insight that supports safe, effective and sustainable services.

You will also provide senior workforce partnering to our Central and Corporate Services, giving leaders high‑quality workforce analysis, planning support and people advice.

The role leads key medical workforce processes — including appraisal, revalidation, job planning and MHPS — ensuring strong governance, statutory compliance and a positive workforce experience. Using workforce intelligence and KPI trends, you will identify risks, highlight opportunities and shape practical workforce solutions. 

About You
You are an experienced people professional with specialist knowledge of medical workforce systems and the confidence to partner with senior clinical leaders. You bring sound judgement, clear communication and the ability to turn data into meaningful insight. Skilled in complex processes and compliance, you promote high governance standards and help build capability in others. Collaborative and values‑driven, you support just‑culture approaches and are committed to improving workforce experience and patient care.

This post is for 20 hours per week over 4/5 days.

Main duties of the job

• Provide senior oversight of medical workforce systems including appraisal, revalidation, job planning, study leave and governance processes.
• Lead on quality assurance of medical workforce processes, ensuring statutory compliance and high‑quality data.
• Triangulate medical workforce information with performance, quality and operational data to identify hotspots, trends and risks.
•  Produce high‑quality narrative, insight and assurance reports for the CMO, Executive Team and Board.
• Monitor performance against medical workforce KPIs and drive forward improvement plans where needed.
• Act as senior specialist adviser for complex medical workforce issues, including MHPS processes, capability concerns, professional standards and high‑risk situations.
• Act as senior workforce partner to the Medical Directorate and (where required) other Directorates.
• Use workforce dashboards, ESR data, Allocate/e‑rostering, FourteenFish/PReP and other datasets to provide strategic insight.
•  Support workforce planning, modelling and design of future workforce requirements.
• Identify risks to recruitment, retention, rota viability, wellbeing, or service sustainability and propose mitigations.
• Provide expert advice on terms and conditions for medical/AfC staff and ensure consistent application.
• Support recruitment and retention initiatives to reduce vacancies and reliance on temporary staffing.

Working for our organisation

Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.

We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you’ll receive.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.