Temporary Staffing Advisor | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust


Company:	IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST
Salary:	£47,951 - £56,863 pa inclusive
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, W6 8RF
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	7 Sept 2026
Closing date:	7 Oct 2026

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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 services better, supporting safe patient care and working collaboratively across the NHS, we would love to hear from you.

• Work collaboratively with managers and HR colleagues to support the development of workforce plans that reflect demand and supply, and build temporary staffing plans that

ensure effective availability of temporary staffing for the Trust. This is to be done within the context of Trust productivity and efficiency goals.

• You will not line manage staff directly, you will however be required to influence a broad range of people to deliver the temporary workforce agenda effectively.

• You will support the Trust in the control of temporary workforce costs, maximising safe staffing, and financial opportunities wherever possible to achieve financial savings.

• Work with colleagues to ensure data is available, accurate and timely and supports business needs, enabling decision making, and seek to improve data quality and management information.

• Work with the Temporary Staffing team to support continual service improvement, monitoring, measuring, reporting and taking appropriate action in regard to temporary staffing.

• Keep informed of the wider NHS agenda, changes in legislation, best practice and new developments that are applicable to temporary staffing, cascading to colleagues, Trust Managers and other stakeholders as appropriate.

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainability

Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people’s health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environmentwww.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

This advert closes on Monday 21 Sep 2026

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