Senior Consultant – Workforce
About the job
The Workforce Development Trust
The Workforce Development Trust (WDT) is a not-for-profit organisation that provides services that support employers to develop skilled, sustainable, and efficient workforces in the UK and abroad. We operate via our five brands; Skills for Health, Skills for Justice, SFJ Awards, iCQ Awards and People 1st International, which deliver specialist, targeted skills interventions to support a variety of frontline public services.
Job summary
As a Senior Consultant-Workforce, you will play a pivotal role in the design, leadership and delivery of workforce transformation programmes across health, justice, emergency services, and the wider public sector. You will be part of a small, senior team of consultants operating within a matrix model. Each postholder will lead on a particular area of expertise; such as workforce analytics, strategic planning, or workforce/organisational development while contributing across the full spectrum of the consultancy offer.
Assignments may span national policy-level reviews, regional workforce reform programmes, or provider-level workforce diagnostics and delivery plans. The role demands a high level of subject matter expertise, autonomy, and personal leadership, alongside a proven ability to work collaboratively with internal colleagues and senior external stakeholders.
You will be expected to interpret complex workforce challenges, co-design innovative and realistic solutions with clients, and shape delivery that is both technically sound and practically implementable. You’ll work across a wide-ranging portfolio, including (but not limited to) workforce supply and demand modelling, training needs analysis, workforce redesign, skills framework development, and career pathways.
Bristol or Sheffield office with hybrid working available.
Salary: £63,000 per annum. Full time (37.5 hrs) permanent role.
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Benefits;
- Generous annual leave entitlement of up to 25 days per year with additional days’ leave awarded for each continuous year of service up to a maximum of 28 days, plus eight public holidays and a potential Christmas closure.
- The WDT also provides enhanced maternity, paternity and sickness leaves, alongside this we provide bereavement leave and carers leave.
- Health and wellbeing benefits, which include access to our mental health first aiders, a confidential employee assistance programme, free eye tests and payment for an annual flu jab.
- Pension scheme with a minimum contribution of 4% to a maximum contribution of 6%, matched by the company, along with death in service coverage at three times annual salary.
- Flexible employee benefits, including a portal providing hundreds of discounts, including a cycle to work scheme which is available upon successful completion of probation period, as well as a dress for your day approach to working.
- Frequent organisational development days and departmental training budgets.
- Payroll giving, this is a tax-free way to donate to any charity, good cause or place of worship.
The Workforce Development Trust is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone.
We strongly encourage people of all gender, religion, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and individuals with disabilities to apply.
If you need any reasonable adjustments at any point, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to advise on your pronouns, for example she/her, he/him, they/them etc.
How to apply
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