Temporary Staffing Advisor
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role involves shaping a safe, responsive, and sustainable temporary workforce for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The advisor will support clinical services by ensuring effective temporary staffing, maintaining safe staffing levels, and achieving value for money. Key responsibilities include workforce planning, service improvement, and cost-effective solutions, working collaboratively with managers and external partners. The position is a 12-month fixed-term contract covering maternity leave.
Essential criteria
- Degree level in Management/Business/Financial Management or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Further management experience/training to post graduate diploma level or equivalent
- CIPD qualified
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of recent relevant continuous professional development
- Significant experience of working in temporary staffing within complex or large organisations.
- Experience delivering change or improvement in a customer service, high-volume temporary staffing environment.
- Developing complex spreadsheets and presenting data in a simple and understandable way
- Demonstrable success achieving targets
- Significant experience managing service development.
- Experience delivering initiatives within budgetary constraints.
- Experience implementing organisational and service change.
- Previous experience of working in temporary staffing in the NHS
- Team Management
- Experience of managing complaints and concerns
- Skills/knowledge/ abilities
- Leadership qualities, ability to motivate teams and individuals.
- Ability to plan and deliver projects, identify and address issues that may derail projects
- Exceptional verbal and written communication; able to communicate clearly and effectively on a range of highly complex staffing issues and engaging with stakeholders at all levels.
- Good presentation skills; able to communicate, contentious, sensitive and highly complex information to large groups.
- Able to think and plan, tactically and creatively and to prioritise in the face of competing demands.
- Able to interpret, integrate and apply employment legislation across a range of key temporary staffing projects and initiatives.
- Analytical skills; able to assess and understand data to identify and remedy service issues.
- Exceptional excel skills, able to construct formulas, link spreadsheets.
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritise own work as well as the work of others.
- Excellent organisational and prioritising skills
- Ability to present complex information in a way that is understood, varying presentation styles and techniques as appropriate
- Expert knowledge of temporary workforce agenda locally and nationally
- Education/ qualifications
- Degree level in Management/Business/Financial Management or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Further management experience/training to post graduate diploma level or equivalent
- CIPD qualified
- Evidence of recent relevant continuous professional development
- Significant experience of working in temporary staffing within complex or large organisations.
- Experience delivering change or improvement in a customer service, high-volume temporary staffing environment.
- Developing complex spreadsheets and presenting data in a simple and understandable way
- Demonstrable success achieving targets
- Significant experience managing service development.
- Experience delivering initiatives within budgetary constraints.
- Experience implementing organisational and service change.
- Previous experience of working in temporary staffing in the NHS
- Team Management
- Experience of managing complaints and concerns
- Skills/knowledge/ abilities
- Leadership qualities, ability to motivate teams and individuals.
- Ability to plan and deliver projects, identify and address issues that may derail projects
- Exceptional verbal and written communication; able to communicate clearly and effectively on a range of highly complex staffing issues and engaging with stakeholders at all levels.
- Good presentation skills; able to communicate, contentious, sensitive and highly complex information to large groups.
- Able to think and plan, tactically and creatively and to prioritise in the face of competing demands.
- Able to interpret, integrate and apply employment legislation across a range of key temporary staffing projects and initiatives.
- Analytical skills; able to assess and understand data to identify and remedy service issues.
- Exceptional excel skills, able to construct formulas, link spreadsheets.
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritise own work as well as the work of others.
- Excellent organisational and prioritising skills
- Ability to present complex information in a way that
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Temporary Staffing Advisor
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
Help shape a safe, responsive and sustainable temporary workforce across Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and influential Temporary Staffing Advisor to join our People Operations team covering maternity leave for 12 months. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in improving how we plan, deploy and support our temporary workforce, helping clinical services access the right people at the right time while maintaining safe staffing, quality and value for money.
Working closely with managers, clinical leads, workforce colleagues and external partners, you will use data, insight and relationship-building skills to support workforce planning, service improvement and cost-effective temporary staffing solutions. You will help develop smarter processes, improve reporting and contribute to projects that strengthen workforce resilience across the Trust.
This role will suit someone who is organised, analytical and confident working with spreadsheets and a wide range of stakeholders. You will bring experience of temporary staffing and resourcing or workforce planning in a complex environment, alongside the ability to influence change, solve problems and present information clearly.If you are motivated by making s
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