Regional and national suppliers to help you secure quality candidates across a wide range of non-clinical specialisms from admin, clerical and maintenance, to IT and finance.
Powerful partnerships in procurement
We’re working with NHS Procurement in Partnership to provide health workforce services. As the biggest public procurement partnership in the UK, the NHS Workforce Alliance brings together a wealth of trusted procurement and commercial expertise to benefit the NHS.
NHS Procurement in Partnership is a collaboration of 4 procurement hubs:
- NHS Commercial Solutions
- NHS East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub
- NHS London Procurement Partnership
- NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative
The alliance is working together to avoid unnecessary duplication and influence the procurement landscape to empower the NHS to build a sustainable workforce model and address the staffing crisis.
The alliance has a long-term plan to create a whole portfolio of health workforce services that support the recruitment recommendations set out in the NHS Long Term Plan and the NHS People Plan 20/21.
The health workforce frameworks
The alliance’s health workforce frameworks are NHS England and NHS Improvement approved. Tap in to our trusted category advice and support to help you to create and maintain a sustainable workforce.
Experienced international recruitment organisations working to a framework wide standard of quality to help you widen your talent pool and fill permanent clinical healthcare vacancies. Supports the NHS People Plan 20/21.
Staff bank services to help you flexibly manage your clinical and non-clinical temporary workforce, maximise shift fill rates (filled by bank), and reduce your reliance on agency staff. Supports the NHS People Plan 20/21.
Access temporary clinical and healthcare staffing services through a single framework.
Designed to limit confusion in the market and create a streamlined process, it replaces the Collaborative Procurement Partnership (CPP) National Clinical Staffing and Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Multidisciplinary Temporary Healthcare Personnel frameworks, which are due to expire in February 2021.
Workforce support and technology services
We’ve selected the best aspects of our existing support and technology frameworks and put them in one place as a joint alliance offer to give NHS trusts compliant ways to source additional services to support health HR and workforce functions.
General recruitment, executive search and talent mapping to help you with your non-clinical permanent, fixed term and inward secondment requirements.
Support the health and wellbeing of your employees to reduce absence and attrition rates with a wide range of occupational health and employee assistance services, with telephone and online support. Supports the NHS People Plan 20/21.
Meet the professional development and training needs of your workforce. From a single learning requirement to a fully managed service or bespoke solution to complement your in-house resources. All based on a catalogue of courses, 90% of which are now available virtually.
Get specialist HR support on everything from dispute management and employee relations to recruitment policy and terms and conditions.
Ensure robust workforce planning with an efficient back office solution to support your workforce strategy with eRostering, HR and payroll services. Developed with input from the Department of Health and Social Care and the NHS, systems include timesheet approvals and staff bank management systems.
Blogs, news and case studies
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New streamlined service for the recruitment of clinical and healthcare staff
The NHS Workforce Alliance has launched a framework for the recruitment of temporary clinical and healthcare staff.
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Ethical international recruitment: responding to the NHS People Plan
The NHS Workforce Alliance can help NHS trusts respond to the NHS People Plan 2020/21 which sets out the need to increase international recruitment.
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Building the NHS workforce
The last few months have shown the critical importance of our frontline healthcare workers as the NHS tackles the greatest global health crisis in its history.
Read more about Building the NHS workforce
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