Request for Information (RFI) Employers’ Services Organisation Contract for the NHS in England.
Department of Health and Social Care · London
Key facts
- Estimated value
- £20,000,000
- Buyer type
- Central government
- Source
- Find a Tender
Description
This Request for Information (RFI) is for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to gain additional information from potential suppliers to ensure the successful tender exercise for an Employers’ Services Organisation Contract for the NHS in England. The Contract consists of 9 work programmes covering workforce policy which are agreed on an annual basis. The work programmes are as follows: Work Programme 1: Pay and Contracts Work Programme 2: Workforce Supply Education, skills, and redesign of workforce Work Programme 3: Workforce Supply: International Recruitment Work Programme 4: Workforce Supply and Retention Work Programme 5: Pensions and total reward Work Programme 6: Employment services Work Programme 7: Staff Experience Work Programme 8: Staff Engagement including Social Partnership Forum (SPF) Work Programme 9: Communications
The objectives of the contract include (but are not limited to):
To ensure a clear employer voice to input into policy development relating to the NHS workforce To manage and lead DHSC input into negotiations to make any changes to national terms and conditions of employment for NHS staff To enable the staff side voice (stakeholders representing NHS employees) to also be represented in matters relating to terms and conditions of service and other key matters as identified To ensure that new NHS workforce policies are effectively implemented and communicated across the NHS. The key outputs would be successfully implementing and establishing hubs, networks, along with effective working relationships with workforce leaders via the interlinked work programmes stated above. These are integral in supporting DHSC with the implementation of workforce policies.
The aims of this contract are to:
Support the NHS with the implementation and delivery of workforce policy Empower DHSC programme leads to be the drivers of change, devising and delivering on workforce policy which is business critical Provide opportunities for building networks between DHSC leads and NHS system workforce leaders Provide the deliverables detailed in 9 annual work programmes (please see Appendix 1 for further information) Provide additional surge capacity to flex to evolving DHSC/Ministerial priorities
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