Jason Howle

• Manage a high-traffic department delivering diverse transactional People-related services to own organisation and other NHS customer organisations.

• Establish departmental strategy prioritising quality, customer satisfaction, and responsiveness.

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with senior colleagues in own organisation and client organisations.

• Lead on the implementation of additional Electronic Staff Record (ESR) functionality across customer base

• Part of the People senior leadership team reporting directly to the Director of People

• Coordinated development of 5-year workforce plan for provider arm of the PCT through liaison with Heads of Service, Finance and Human Resources

• Quality assured local NHS provider workforce plans on behalf of the commissioning arm of the PCT

• Worked with colleagues in contract management and quality to develop a workforce assurance model for ongoing monitoring of workforce aspects of provider contracts

• Worked with West Midlands Strategic Health Authority (WMSHA) and Deloitte to develop and implement a workforce modelling tool to support workforce planning

Chaired the WMSHA Workforce Assurance Tool Group

• Lead on the development of a new suite of workforce information reports to assist in delivery of the HR strategy and to support individual services in managing their workforce

• Collaborated with finance colleagues to update ESR with baseline funded establishment and subsequently devised a strategy for ongoing maintenance.

• Worked with clinicians and managers in the Intermediate Care team to develop a workforce demand model to support early discharge from Acute services into a home-based setting

• Responsible for the production of comprehensive workforce information to support corporate and divisional requirements throughout the organisation

• Project-managed the implementation of ESR into the organisation in 2007 coordinating key activities of colleagues from Finance, Payroll and Human Resources

• Coordinated the submission of the 5-year workforce plan, working closely with service leads, Finance and HR colleagues to ensure the submission was realistic in terms of deliverability and affordability.

• Developed workforce productivity and future demand models for Ophthalmology and Cancer Outpatient services

• Developed the organisation's first job management and invoicing solution and established a process and team to ensure that 50+ member organisations were able to achieve payment from high street clients for work undertaken

• Liaised and negotiated directly with senior managers and buyers within several recognised high-street and mail order retailers of consumer electronics

• Recruited additional member organisations to ensure that full UK geographic coverage was enhanced

• In conjunction with the Managing Director, oversaw a year-on-year increase in activity and turnover between formation in 1991 through to 1999