NHS Employers provide a wide variety of opportunities to influence and get involved in our work. We always welcome employer input and are able to fit your contribution around your other work commitments. Listed below is a summary of some of the current ways for you to get involved.
If you would like to get involved or receive further information about any of the activities click on the links below, complete our get involved form or email getinvolved@nhsemployers.org.
Reference groups, committees and other forums
We have over 600 employers involved in our work through virtual reference groups, steering groups, committees and negotiating groups which feed into each area of our work. These include Medical Workforce Forum and NHS Staff Council Executive. We also nominate employers to sit on external national groups and forums to feed in the employers view direct.
Policy Board
Our Policy Board plays an important role in making decisions about the work, position and direction of NHS Employers, with members drawn from a diverse range of organisations and professions. The nature of its work includes providing us with expert opinion on pertinent issues that have an impact on the workforce in the NHS. This better enables us to properly reflect the views of employers. It also ratifies our negotiating positions and signs off our evidence to the pay review bodies and to formal responses to consultations.
NHS Workforce Bulletin
NHS Workforce Bulletin is your weekly update on HR and workforce issues in the NHS. We distribute the weekly email bulletin highlighting current opportunities to get involved in our work, updates on recent activities and achievements, and forthcoming events.
Conferences
We deliver a programme of national conferences and events on a variety of issues affecting NHS employers. Over the past year these have included workforce productivity, shared services, equality and diversity and NHS pensions. Bringing all the key issues together once a year is the NHS Employers annual conference and exhibition.
Research
To ensure we are representing employers, we regularly seek employer views, priorities, challenges and experiences and use these to inform our work programmes. Over the next year, we will run a research programme, which will include a satisfaction survey, a set of priority polls and a stakeholder perceptions audit, to ensure we are continuing to be the voice of employers.
NHS Confederation members
NHE Employers is part of the NHS Confederation, allowing us to make the links between workforce and the wider NHS agenda. We speak to NHS Confederation members about workforce issues at sector specific events, networks, groups and forums and keep our audiences informed on the national agenda, as it relates to workforce.
If there are any specific areas of our work you are interested in getting involved in please complete this online form.