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This conference focuses on improving job planning and developing your skills in leading and negotiating job plan reviews. The event will reflect on the NHS England update to medical consultant job planning and implementing the high impact interventions and recommendations in line with the NHS 10 Year Health Plan and Medium Term Planning Framework. The conference will share good practice in job planning to make care safer and improve patient experience, and to maximise the value of patients’ and clinicians’ time and the productivity of services by tacking waste and addressing poor practices. You will hear practical guidance from those leading and improving the effectiveness of Job planning to understand current issues and the national context, and to debate and discuss key issues and areas they are facing in practice. The CPD certified conference focuses on delivering successful job planning and maximising the benefits for patients, for doctors and for the service, and ensuring compliance with best practice guidance.
Through a series of presentations and extended interactive sessions, and small breakout groups this one day conference will provide delegates with the opportunity improve their skills in leading job plan reviews, ensuring the job plan improves personal development goals, individual and service objectives. Extended sessions will focus on clinical leadership in job planning, strategic job planning, service level job planning, negotiating job plans, managing difficult issues, and will include advice on legal and HR issues.
“Effective service level job planning is essential to delivering innovation, education and training because it ensures clinical capacity is aligned to both service and education and training needs, providing transparency for funding allocation
Providers must:
• for each year, ensure that 95% of medical job plans are signed-off in line with the business cycle, underpinned by service level demand and capacity planning
• by the end of 2026/27, ensure a system for monitoring and assurance is in place for tracking job planned activity
• by the end of 2027/28, achieve tracking of job planned activity for the full year
• by the end of 2028/29, ensure multiprofessional service level activity and job planning are in place"
NHS England Medium Term Planning Framework delivering change together 2026/27 to 2028/29, October 2025
“When over half of consultants say their job plans don’t reflect the work they actually do, and that workload in busy weeks is squeezing out time to train and supervise other doctors, it’s clear the job planning system is out of step with reality. If we don’t fix this, we risk the further burn out of physicians, restricting their opportunities to engage in vital activities such as service development and the training of the next generation. This not only holds back doctors’ progression but ultimately undermines patient care. A sustainable and effective NHS starts with job plans that respects and reflects the fantastic work that the physician workforce does day in and day out for their patients.”
Professor Mumtaz Patel, President of the RCP July 2025
Learning Outcomes
This conference will enable you to:
Learn from outstanding practice in the development effective job planning practice
Update your knowledge to comply with the NHS England best practice guidance and high impact interventions
Reflect on how you can develop your clinical leadership skills in leading job plan reviews
Learn from case studies how strategic and service level job planning can improve productivity and patient care
Understand how to work with staff to ensure job planning works to improve patient care, achieve service business plans and the trust’s organisational objectives
Develop a baseline assessment of job planning in your service and establish a job planning committee
Understand how to renegotiate job plans including legal issues around identifying contractual terms and exploiting existing flexibilities
Developing systems that improve the management of difficult issues in job planning including managing appeals
Ensure annualisation and long term planning
Reflect on legal and HR issues
Self assess and understand the barriers and challenges
Gain 5 hours CPD for professional development and revalidation (subject to peer group approval)
