Tender: Managed Supply of Temporary Clinical Staff and Workforce Management Software – North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

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North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a supplier to act as a Neutral Vendor providing a fully managed service for the supply of temporary clinical workforce (agency provision) across all NCIC sites, including sourcing and fulfilment of agency clinical staffing, managing an approved agency supply chain, and facilitating a system to manage agencies. The supplier will provide 24/7/365 electronic booking and rostering software that is interoperable with Trust systems, maintains a complete audit trail of access, bookings, amendments, approvals, timesheets and payments, and supports booking, timesheet processing and payment for the Trust’s Flexible Workers (the supplier will not source Flexible Workers). The service must deliver real-time workforce management, booking and reporting, robust governance and compliance checks (including right-to-work, mandatory training, professional registration and IR35 monitoring), a Direct Engagement service offering specified VAT and process efficiencies to onboard, process and offboard temporary workers in line with legislation and HR policies, and collaborative delivery against SLAs and KPIs to maintain safe staffing, timely fulfilment and agreed direct engagement utilisation targets.