NHS Workforce 2024

A physiotherapist who has worked in the NHS for 30 years, Fiona left her role of Clinical Head of Children’s Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy in 2021 to undertake a workforce project role in the South Yorkshire Allied Health Professions Faulty focussed on the AHP support workforce; she was awarded winner of the AHP Workforce Transformation award in the 2023 Chief Allied Health Professions Officer Awards.  In her current role Fiona promotes and supports partnership working across Doncaster Place to find solutions to Health and Care workforce challenges.

Head of People - resourcing and retention at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Parjinder wants to ensure, in a time of immense societal, economic, and technological change, that ICAEW remains a beacon for the highest standards.

Parjinder has a wealth of experience in strategy formulation, change management, performance delivery and effective governance from his time as a director in the police service. He deploys these skills, within the IRB, to maximise opportunities and mitigate risks to regulatory strategy, as the profession evolves. Parjinder currently leads a regional workforce transformation portfolio within the NHS.

Parjinder brings an analytical and evidence-based style which is grounded in his inquiring mindset. He is strongly minded to ensuring members receive excellent value for money from ICAEW’s professional standards activities. Ultimately, he is an ardent believer in the power of robust regulation to deliver enhanced public trust.

Mick has over 30 years’ experience in the health sector, commencing his career as a nurse in Australia before taking up clinical roles in both Australia and the UK and progressing into executive leadership positions for some of the UK’s top healthcare workforce companies.
His passion for developing pioneering workforce solutions has heavily influenced the growth of industry leaders Medacs Global Group, alongside numerous healthcare staffing businesses across Europe, North America and the APAC region.

As a recognised healthcare workforce expert, Mick frequently works in collaboration with regional NHS and ICB leads, advising on and piloting fresh approaches.

Under his leadership, Litmus has established a solid reputation for transforming staff bank and agency management, delivering substantial savings on NHS staffing costs across acute, community and mental health services.

Elaine Kelly joined the Health Foundation in October 2018 as Head of Economics Research, becoming Assistant Director of the REAL Centre in 2022.

Elaine worked for the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) for seven years, after completing her PhD. She worked on a range of academic and policy-focused projects across health and health care, including Securing the Future, co-authored with the Health Foundation.

Elaine retains a part-time role at the IFS as Senior Research Economist and Deputy Director of the NIHR Social Care Workforce Policy Research Unit.

She has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and an MSc and PhD in Economics from University College London. She was also a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University.

Technical and Developmental Lead Radiographer at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Lucy Hunte is a National Programme Manager for the NHS. Lucy has worked in the training and education sector for over 20 years and for the past 10 years she has been working in the Apprenticeship arena. First leading the business development teams at 2 London FE colleges and for the past 5 years working for Health Education England offering strategic support to the NHS on all aspects of apprenticeship development, delivery, and implementation.

She is very passionate about widening participation and sees apprenticeships as a great tool to recruit new talent to the NHS but also as a way to upskill the existing workforce and offer career pathways and progression.

Diversity and inclusion is another passion and she believes they should be at the heart of all business plans.

• Dr Diamond is a consultant in Emergency Medicine. She has trained in the UK and Australia. She was an international examiner for the Royal College before taking position as the deputy medical director of the Southern Trust in Northern Ireland. Her portfolio covers workforce and training.
• She developed an out reach service to manage intoxicated patients rather than using the default position of send to ED.
• She has developed several apps and cloud based technology in partnership with the University of Ulster.
• She has developed and grown 2 companies which have seen growth through periods which were associated with austerity.

Emma’s background is in learning and development in the housing and care sector before joining the newly established Digitally Enabled Workforce team in NHS Education for Scotland in 2021. Emma now leads on national work building digital leadership skills across the health and care workforce in Scotland.

Lived Experience Partner, Advocate, Public speaker
Doubleday Affiliate Manchester School
NHS England Experience of Care Team - Co-Production
NHS Leadership Academy Experience of Care partner,
National Steering Group: Maximising Leadership Learning in the Pre-Registration Healthcare Curricula
HQIP Service User Network,
Q community,
Beryl Institute Global Experience Measuring Team

Previous experience
Co-Chair NHS Thames Valley Patient Experience Operation Group and member of,
NHS Thames Valley SCN Oversight Group,
Health Education England Thames Valley Partnership Council,
Oxford AHSN Clinical Innovation Adoption Group & Oversight Group
National AHSN Network of Networks.
Physician Associate Joint Project Team (University of Reading),
Reading Borough Council Carers Group.
Dementia Handbook for Carers and Care Providers editorial team

I've worked at Alder Hey Children's Hospital for 36 years as a nurse and RCN trade union rep.
I have previously served as a Staff Governor, and currently, I’m working within the COVID team in the Trust. Furthermore, many of you will know of my work as a trade union rep at Alder Hey.

Well in this ‘post’ COVID period, and the huge changes to the NHS structures and funding, it is important that nursing has a strong voice on the Board of Governors, and our nurses can influence the direction of, and the future of nursing in the Trust.

Academic radiographer, leader and manager.
Experienced in cross-disciplinary leadership and management (strategic and operational roles).
Innovator and visionary for educational advancement
Motivational leader and team promoter, ensuring all are inspired to achieve their best
Charity Trustee and Board member
A voice for professional advancement and progression to improve service delivery and patient experience within diagnostic imaging and healthcare.

The Operations Director role is a new one for the NHS Workforce Alliance, reporting to the Executive Board and responsible to all five member organisations. It was established as part of an emerging Project Management Office function to ensure the Alliance has a balance of full-time dedicated resources as well as allocated time from the talented people in the commercial, communications, finance, and data teams across the Alliance members.

In the simplest sense, it’s my role to ensure the Alliance achieves its ultimate ambition of being the workforce partner of choice across the NHS.

Rob has been working closely with and supporting a range of NHS Trusts, from Acute Trusts to Mental Health and Ambulance Trusts since 2018, allowing a greater and more insight-led approach to their retention strategies and a better understanding of the reasons behind front-line resignations. Rob’s subject matter expertise supports and enables NHS organisations to optimise retention strategies through a greater understanding of the challenges faced and the reasons behind resignations.

I've worked at Alder Hey Children's Hospital for 36 years as a nurse and RCN trade union rep.
I have previously served as a Staff Governor, and currently, I’m working within the COVID team in the Trust. Furthermore, many of you will know of my work as a trade union rep at Alder Hey.

Well in this ‘post’ COVID period, and the huge changes to the NHS structures and funding, it is important that nursing has a strong voice on the Board of Governors, and our nurses can influence the direction of, and the future of nursing in the Trust.

I’ve worked with software companies supplying workforce management systems to the NHS for the last decade and in that time have partnered with more than 40 Trusts in helping them to utilise electronic systems to optimise their medical workforce planning and deployment. Since 2020, I’ve also applied this experience in my role as  Workforce Systems Manager at UCLH. My work with Premier IT encompasses product development and refinement, implementation and adopting best practices, as well as providing end-user training and ongoing relationship management.

 

I joined Premier IT in September 2022 after a 13-year period working for the NHS. I started my NHS career as a HCA and then moved into the e-Rostering team as an Implementation Officer, from there my career progressed culminating in my last 4 years as a Medical Rostering Manager. I worked in various roles, with a plethora of workforce systems and multiple staff groups. My role now encompasses implementing our Zebra rostering product to new clients, planning and supervising projects to meet strategic objectives and ensuring project delivery within budget and on time. My role also includes training, procurement and working closely with our development team for product enhancements.

The Operations Director role is a new one for the NHS Workforce Alliance, reporting to the Executive Board and responsible to all five member organisations. It was established as part of an emerging Project Management Office function to ensure the Alliance has a balance of full-time dedicated resources as well as allocated time from the talented people in the commercial, communications, finance, and data teams across the Alliance members.

In the simplest sense, it’s my role to ensure the Alliance achieves its ultimate ambition of being the workforce partner of choice across the NHS.

An experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist, who loves the NHS and its staff. Passionate about equality, representation and fairness, across all areas of life. Promoting systemic and cultural wellbeing in organisations.

Featured Media Clinical Psychologist in award winning ITV documentary ‘Finding Derek’, Kate Garraway. Featured in The Independent.

Trauma specialist. EMDR clinician. Experienced in ICU/ critical care settings, adult and paediatric clinical health. Ex-CAMHS team psychologist.

Experienced trainer and consultant for a wide range of people and organisations interested in psychological issues, emotional well-being and mental health. Experienced in providing training and teaching to many audiences eg MSc, Doctorate training, medical/nursing teams, probation, care homes.

My name is Rachel and I qualified with a first class honours degree 3 years ago. I am a proud mum of 4 beautiful children ranging in age from 26 to 14 whom I raised as a single mum after leaving an abusive relationship. My journey into nursing was inspired by the amazing nurses who I worked with whilst caring for my mum who died from early onset dementia in 2018 and I embarked on my journey just a few months after her passing. I have worked on ward 18 at the RVI  a neuro and trauma critical care unit since qualifying and am deeply passionate about my patients their families and my amazing colleagues. Shortly into my career on ward 18, I suffered a traumatic event that triggered a mental health crisis and I contacted the ward sister whom I was closest to for support. I was pathwayed to support from the unit's clinical psychologist and my colleagues and on my return to work became heavily involved in work on wellbeing on the unit. I’d like to share some of the impact of that work with as many people as I can to raise awareness of its vital importance in a healthy team. 

 

Consultant Neuroradiologist working at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Imaging interests include general neuroradiology, neurovascular imaging, stroke imaging, and spinal imaging. Wider interests include understanding and improving NHS culture through restorative practices.