Leadership and Management in NHS HR Department

Portfolio for the Head of
England’s NHS HR
Department

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
AREA 1 Leadership and Management............................................................................................4
Models related to leadership and management and their application to NHS.............................4
Role and priorities of NHS management and HR function in supporting leadership and
management.................................................................................................................................5
Internal and external influences on leadership and management................................................5
There are some internal and external factors which can affect leadership and management
development in both manners. Some internal factors involve: strengths, weaknesses,
workforce of employees, strategy etc. Some external factors include: technology, political
situation, customers, changing needs of customers etc...............................................................5
Recommendations for developing leadership and management.................................................6
AREA 2: Training and development...............................................................................................6
Models related to training and development and their application to NHS................................6
Role and priorities of NHS management and HR function in supporting training and
development.................................................................................................................................7
Internal and external influences on training and development....................................................7
Recommendations for developing training and development.....................................................7
AREA 3: Talent management..........................................................................................................8
Models related to talent management and their application to NHS...........................................8
Role and priorities of NHS management and HR function in supporting talent management....8
Internal and external influences on talent management..............................................................9
Recommendations for improving talent management.................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Human resource refers a department of an organization which plays several roles and is
mainly responsible for company’s success by recruiting, selecting and motivating skilled
workforce (Findlay and Dutton, 2019). This present study is based on NHS which is the public
funded healthcare system in England as well as 1 of the 4 national health service systems in the
UK. This study is going to show importance of leadership and management as how some models
can help NHS in solving all problems which it is facing like work load, long working hours,
providing healthcare services to ageing population etc. Further, it also shows some internal and
external influences on main areas such as talent, leadership and management and training and
development.
AREA 1 Leadership and Management
Models related to leadership and management and their application to NHS
Leadership and management are main key of the success of NHS and other organization
as one of the main function of this is getting all level of people together in order to believe on the
vision and to work with them. It is stated that HR department of NHS UK is facing several
problems like ageing population, advance treatment which increase cost etc. For solving all these
problems it is important to focus on implementing some theories and models relevant to
leadership and management such as:
As per the Gopee and Galloway, (2017) leaders mainly focuses on 4 soft S’s model which can
help them out in contributing company in solving their problems. These 4 S’s are: style, staff,
skills, shared goals. Whereas, a manager should focus on 3 S’s model which is: strategy,
structure and system. By developing this model and by focusing all S’s leaders manager can