Workforce Solutions
Workforce Solutions is our consultancy service, providing trusted, tailored support and additional capacity to help NHS workforce leaders address complex challenges, deliver strategic change and strengthen their organisations.
The service draws on our deep sector knowledge, decades of experience and a strong network of expert affiliates. We provide additional capacity when it’s needed most, creating trusted spaces for leaders to explore challenges, unlock opportunities and work towards effective solutions.
We reinvest any surplus into work that supports the NHS, helping to improve staff experience, enhance services and enable better outcomes for patients.
Why choose us?
Our consultancy service offers specialist access to expertise, capacity and support that helps NHS workforce leaders navigate challenges, deliver change and improve outcomes. This includes:
- Extensive sector insight grounded in decades of NHS workforce experience, and a deep understanding of the environments leaders operate in.
- Tailored organisational support shaped around your priorities, context and ambitions, with flexible, practical solutions delivered when they’re needed most.
- Specialist capability across five core areas; organisational development, strategic people advice, coaching and mediation, workforce transformation and peer and service reviews.
- Trusted affiliate expertise from a diverse network of organisational development (OD) and workforce specialists who extend our capability and provide targeted, high‑impact support.
- Positive reinvestment with any surplus directed back into work that supports the NHS.
About the affiliate network
The Workforce Solutions affiliate network brings together a diverse community of trusted OD (organisational development) and workforce specialists who extend our capability and enable us to provide tailored, high‑impact support to NHS organisations. Our affiliates offer specialist knowledge, practical experience and targeted expertise across our five core service areas, helping workforce leaders address challenges, drive change and improve outcomes.
By combining NHS Employers’ workforce insight with affiliate expertise, we can deliver flexible, responsive support shaped around each organisation’s priorities and context. The network strengthens our ability to match the right expertise to the right challenge, ensuring organisations receive the specialist input they need, when they need it.
If you’re interested in joining the affiliate network, complete the registration form to express your interest and connect with our community of OD and workforce specialists.
Get in touch
Talk to our Workforce Solutions team about your workforce challenge, potential project or the additional expertise and capacity your organisation needs. Contact us at workforcesolutions@nhsemployers.org.
Meet the team
- Hazel Wyton - Director of Workforce Solutions and Engagement, NHS Employers
- Lisa Crichton-Jones - Assistant Director of Workforce Solutions, NHS Employers
- Carly Telford - Assistant Director of Organisational Development, NHS Employers
- Louise Wheeler - Assistant Director of Workforce Solutions (Future People Leaders), NHS Employers
- Sam Owen – Assistant Director of Workforce Solutions, NHE Employers