Resourcing Data Lead

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Job Reference: HCC624068

Salary Range: £33,178 - £36,369 pro-rata, per annum (actual salary £28,695 - £31,455 per annum)

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 25 May 2026

As our Resourcing Data Lead, you'll oversee workforce blueprints across Adults' Health & Care, ensuring staffing aligns with agreed structures, funding and priorities. You'll provide challenge and assurance by reconciling workforce data, supporting permission to recruit decisions and advising managers on effective use of vacancies.

You'll lead on workforce governance and reporting, organising and chairing key monitoring forums and delivering clear workforce insight through monthly and quarterly dashboards. You'll also support senior decision making through vacancy and turnover analysis.

As the team's data and reporting expert, you'll drive improvements to systems and tools, support Children's Services with blueprint development, lead on audit data, manage complex data requests and promote accurate, efficient and future focused workforce management.

• Workforce blueprint management: Oversee and maintain Adults' Health & Care workforce blueprints, ensuring alignment with agreed establishments, budgets, and recruitment principles.
• Strategic workforce governance: Advise and challenge managers on workforce decisions, vacant hours, and recruitment requests, escalating issues through formal monitoring groups as required.
• Recruitment and PTR oversight: Manage our Permission to Recruit processes, allocation to advisers, and recruitment tracking to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant resourcing activity.
• Data, reporting, and analysis: Produce monthly dashboards, quarterly workforce reports, and ad hoc analysis using SAP, SuccessFactors, and recruitment systems.
• Stakeholder engagement: Chair workforce monitoring meetings and work collaboratively with senior leaders, Finance, HR, Digital, and external partners to support workforce planning.
• Continuous improvement and assurance: Act as the subject matter expert for workforce data, improve systems and processes, support audits, and drive more efficient ways of working.

• Experience delivering services and communicating effectively and confidently with a range of stakeholders, tailoring to different audiences.
• Data expertise: Skilled in managing complex datasets, analysing and reconciling data across systems, ideally within public sector, health, or social care settings. Experience of manipulating workforce data would be an advantage.
• Good numerical skills: Able to perform mathematical calculations.
• Insight driven improvement: Ability to use data and insight to evaluate practice, solve problems and drive continuous improvement within defined systems and procedures.
• Strong organisational & communication skills: Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, influence stakeholders and provide high quality customer service.
• Technical, agile & resilient: Advanced IT skills (particularly Excel and Microsoft 365), high attention to detail, able to work accurately under pressure, adapt quickly to change and make sound decisions in complex or ambiguous situations.

Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the Resourcing Adviser - Data Lead role, team and our values. The section 'About you' explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about. Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application.

• Be part of a service that enables our directorates to make a real difference to vulnerable adults and children across Hampshire.
• Enjoy a flexible, inclusive, and supportive working environment with hybrid working.
• Access to Health Assured's comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme to support your physical and mental wellbeing, including 24/7 telephone support, a suite of online resources, and legal and financial advice.
• A competitive benefits package that includes generous annual leave entitlement, occupational sick pay, and access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Applicants can expect to hear from us within two weeks of the advertised closing date.

Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role and therefore it is essential that you already have the right to work in the UK.

Other roles you may have experience of may include:

Workforce Planning Lead, Workforce Intelligence Lead, Workforce Analyst, Workforce Governance Officer, Workforce Assurance Lead, Resourcing & Workforce Planning Lead, Recruitment Strategy & Governance Lead, Talent & Workforce Planning Manager, People Data & Insights Lead, Workforce Data & Reporting Manager, Workforce Information Manager, HR Adviser

Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.