# Senior Workforce Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Ipswich Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, 32 hours per week (Office hours , job share considered. Can choose Colchester or Ipswich base but cross site working essential)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-13T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27T12:31:18.022Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/IpswichColchester/East_Suffolk_North_Essex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nursing/Nursing-v8254277
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8254277?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.esneft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Clinical Workforce Team has an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse or AHP who is passionate about clinical workforce to join as a Senior Workforce Practitioner.

We have one 32 hrs permanent position from 4th January 2027.

You will need excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills and the ability to think creatively in order to collaborate with senior clinical staff and ESNEFT recruitment and retention teams to design, implement and evaluate clinical workforce projects.

You will have a working knowledge of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan and NHS People Promise as well as an awareness of national and regional clinical workforce initiatives.

You can choose whether your base site will be Colchester or Ipswich Hospitals however cross site working and travel is a requirement of the role.

### Main duties of the job

- To support implementation of the NHS Long-term workforce Plan, NHS People promise, national and regional clinical workforce initiatives in line with ESNEFT Clinical Strategy
- To collaborate with senior clinical staff, the workforce lead, ESNEFT recruitment and retention teams and the Faculty of Education to design, implement and evaluate clinical workforce projects
- Develop and maintain a professional relationship with clinical areas and key corporate divisions providing support and advice with ongoing projects and initiatives
- Support activities to grow and develop our clinical workforce pipeline
- Support delivery of trust-wide training for medical devices
- Identify and develop resources to support retention of non-medical clinical staff.
- Support Safer Staffing agenda

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Excel, PowerPoint, word and excel skills
- Ability to think creatively
- Good people skills
- leadership skills

### Experience

**Essential**

- Proven post qualifying experience in an acute setting
- Experience supporting staff in the clinical environment
- Evidence of managing and improving the patient experience

**Desirable**

- Previous experience at band 6
- Project management/QI experience

### Qualififcations

**Essential**

- Registered nurse/AHP (degree level or equivalent experience)

**Desirable**

- Project Management qualification
- Mental Health First Aider
- Professional Advocate

## Documents

- [staff networks (pdf, 230.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2724)
- [dbs information (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1262)
- [esneft values and behaviours (pdf, 74.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2146)
- [value of joining nhs pension (pdf, 125.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2404)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 296.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10567129)

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