Six Steps Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning

What is the Six Steps Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning?
Effective workforce planning ensures you will have a workforce of the right size, with the right skills, organised in the right way within the budget that you can afford, delivering services to provide the best possible care.

Workforce plans are prepared at many levels. At a local level, there are plans (staffing rotas) prepared once a month by a ward manager to ensure that their ward has all its shifts covered by staff with the correct skills and competences to ensure that patient services are delivered safely and effectively.

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At the most complex level, there are Strategic Health Authority (SHA) level workforce plans which might be an aggregation of all the plans submitted by the Primary Care Trusts (PCT) and by provider organisations which are used to support strategic and financial planning and education commissioning.

The main aim of the Six Steps Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning is to set out in a practical framework those elements that should be in any workforce plan.

Who is this resource useful for?
Six Steps will be useful to anyone working in healthcare human resources, workforce planning, service planning or in designing new ways of working. It helps managers take into account of the local demographics situation, implications on service and finance and provides practical tips, checklists and case studies to work through.

How will the six steps help me and my organisation?
Use of the Six Steps across workforce planning will help ensure that decisions made around design and recruitment of new staff and teams are sustainable, realistic and fully support the delivery of quality patient care, productivity and efficiency.

How do I use the six steps methodology?
You can access the Six Steps methodology by following the link below.

In addition you can access a user friendly online interactive guide which walks you through each step and signposts a range of tools and techniques to support each step.

The six steps in the methodology are:

Step 1 – Defining the plan
Step 2 – Mapping service change
Step 3 – Defining the required workforce
Step 4 – Understanding workforce availability
Step 5 – Planning to deliver the required workforce
Step 6 – Implement, monitoring and refresh

Who can I contact about the resource?
workforceprojectsteam@skillsforhealth.org.uk

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